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Philippe J Guerin

Researcher at University of Oxford

Publications -  248
Citations -  15799

Philippe J Guerin is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Malaria & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 225 publications receiving 13288 citations. Previous affiliations of Philippe J Guerin include Médecins Sans Frontières & EHESP.

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Non-malarial febrile illness: a systematic review of published aetiological studies and case reports from Africa, 1980–2015

TL;DR: The availability of reliable point-of-care tests for malaria has heralded a paradigm shift in the management of febrile illnesses away from presumptive antimalarial therapy, but better understanding is needed of the true causative agents and their geographic variability.
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The duration of chemoprophylaxis against malaria after treatment with artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine and the effects of pfmdr1 86Y and pfcrt 76T: a meta-analysis of individual patient data

TL;DR: Differences in the duration of protection between the artemisinin combination therapies could alter population-level clinical incidence of malaria by up to 14% in under-5-year-old children when the drugs were used as first-line treatments in areas with high, seasonal transmission.
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Performance of a Histidine-Rich Protein 2 Rapid Diagnostic Test, Paracheck Pf®, for Detection of Malaria Infections in Ugandan Pregnant Women

TL;DR: The RDTs could replace blood smears for diagnosis of malaria in pregnancy by virtue of their relative ease of use and field-based sensitive tests for malaria inregnancy are urgently needed.
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Prevalence, risk factors, and impact on outcome of cytomegalovirus replication in serum of Cambodian HIV-infected patients (2004-2007).

TL;DR: Serum CMV replication is highly prevalent among HIV-infected Cambodian patients and is associated with increased mortality, which underscores the importance of diagnostic CMV infection by PCR in sera of HIV- Infected patients with CD4+ count <100/mm3 and treating this opportunistic infection to reduce its associated mortality.