Daouda Coulibaly

TL;DR: Influenza-associated hospitalization rates were more than three times higher in developing countries than in industrialized countries (150/ 100,000 children/year versus 48/100,000); however, differences in hospitalization practices between settings are an important limitation in interpreting these findings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analytic proportions to global estimates of lower respiratory infections (LRIs) and hospitalizations from the Global Burden of Disease study in adults ≥20 years and by age groups (20−64 years and ≥65 years) to obtain the number of influenza-associated LRI episodes and hospitalization for 2016.

TL;DR: A large number of countries in Africa have lacked sentinel surveillance systems for influenza and are under‐represented in data used for global vaccine strain selection, leading to concerns of under-representation in global vaccine selection.

TL;DR: To understand 2009 pandemic influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A[H 1N1]pdm09) circulation in West Africa, data is collected from ministries of health and influenza laboratories in 10 countries from 4 May 2009 through 3 April 2010.

TL;DR: Across different African epidemiological contexts, substantial variation occurred in cholera incidence, age distribution, clinical presentation, culture confirmation, and testing frequency.