Darlinda F. Jiba

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a retrospective study of HBV-infected children and adults of all age groups who were evaluated at public and private health facilities in Freetown, Sierra Leone between January 2017 and January 2019.

TL;DR: In this paper , the burden of surgical site infections and related antibiotic resistance in the 34 Military Hospital (MH) and Makeni Government Hospital (MGH) located in two geographic regions of Sierra Leone using a prospective study design to collect data from adults aged 18 years or older.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a cross-sectional design and convenience sampling to characterize HIV subtypes and resistanceassociated mutations (RAMs) in these groups in Sierra Leone and found that the predominant HIV-1 subtype was CRF02_AG (87.9%, 95/108), with minority variants constituting 12%.

TL;DR: There is a paucity of data in the literature on sepsis in COVID-19 despite its high burden resulting in a high rate of antimicrobial use that is not backed by clearly documented microbiology laboratory support.

TL;DR: In this paper , a survey of diagnostic service provision in Africa is presented, where the authors report a huge disparity of diagnostic test capability across the African continent, finding that chest X-ray and computed tomography are performed often in 49 countries (98%) and occasionally in 37 countries (74%), and less often in the private sector.