ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2016
Implementation of Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Two Rural Villages in Senegal.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- [West African tick-borne relapsing fever, a neglected disease of major public health importance in Senegal].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025Pooled it
- Correction: Implementation of syndromic surveillance systems in two rural villages in Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Whose Line Is it Anyway? Defining Seropositivity Cutoffs for Infectious Disease Surveillance.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Investigating the etiologies of non-malarial febrile illness in Senegal using metagenomic sequencing.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Expression of Concern: Implementation of Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Two Rural Villages in Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Tick-borne relapsing fever Borreliosis, a major public health problem overlooked in Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Senegal's Grand Magal of Touba: Syndromic Surveillance during the 2016 Mass Gathering.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Investigations by the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection of food and food-borne infections in the Mediterranean Basin and in sub-Saharan Africa.New microbes and new infections · 2018Review
- MALDI-TOF MS and point of care are disruptive diagnostic tools in Africa.New microbes and new infections · 2018Article
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- Expression of concern · 2022-12-13Investigation by Journal/Publisher ·
- Erratum issued
- Expression of concern
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Abstract
Infectious diseases still represent a major challenge for humanity. In this context, their surveillance is critical. From 2010 to 2016, two Point-Of-Care (POC) laboratories have been successfully implemented in the rural Saloum region of Senegal. In parallel, a homemade syndromic surveillance system called EPIMIC was implemented to monitor infectious diseases using data produced by the POC laboratory of the Timone hospital in Marseille, France. The aim of this study is to describe the steps necessary for implementing EPIMIC using data routinely produced by two POC laboratories (POC-L) established in rural Senegal villages. After improving EPIMIC, we started to monitor the 15 pathogens routinely diagnosed in the two POC-L using the same methodology we used in France. In 5 years, 2,577 deduplicated patients-samples couples from 775 different patients have been tested in the Dielmo and Ndiop POC-L. 739 deduplicated patients-samples couples were found to be positive to at least one of the tested pathogens. The retrospective analysis of the Dielmo and Ndiop POC data with EPIMIC allowed to generate 443 alarms. Since January 2016, 316 deduplicated patients-samples couples collected from 298 different patients were processed in the Niakhar POC laboratory. 56 deduplicated patients-samples couples were found to be positive to at least one of the tested pathogens. The retrospective analysis of the data of the Niakhar POC laboratory with EPIMIC allowed to generate 14 alarms. Although some improvements are still needed, EPIMIC has been successfully spread using data routinely produced by two rural POC-L in Senegal, West Africa.
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