Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies de Bamako

Evaluation of the Performance of the BD Veritor™ System for Detection of Acute Respiratory Viruses: Comparison with RT-PCR in Mali

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for rapid and accurate diagnosis of respiratory viral infections and reinforced the importance of integrated respiratory virus surveillance systems. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) provide timely results but may show limited sensitivity co...

Outdoor attractive targeted sugar bait Phase III trials for malaria control in Kenya, Mali, and Zambia: An individual participant data meta-analysis

Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSB) are a potential new class of vector control tool that act through an “attract and kill” mechanism on mosquitoes. We conducted a meta-analysis using data from three large-scale Phase III trials of the Westham Sarabi v1.2 ATSB (0.11% dinotefur...

Two domesticated species of rice shaped the population structure of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Africa

African rice ( Oryza glaberrima ) was independently domesticated in West Africa around 3000 years ago, and has long been intertwined in the history of the region. Asian rice ( Oryza sativa ), which was introduced in Africa when European settlers arrived, gradually replaced Africa...

Measurement of binding antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 variants elicited by natural infection and COVID-19 vaccines in a sub-Saharan African population

Abstract Data on immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in West and Central Africa remain limited, particularly with respect to antibody (Ab) binding across SARS-CoV-2 variants and for different types of vaccine platforms. We assessed anti-spike (anti-S) antibody binding to nin...

Reimagining research equity and beneficial community impact: reflections from the GSK Africa Open Lab inaugural cohort

Global health research continues to rely heavily on knowledge generated outside the regions that bear the greatest disease burden, reinforcing structural inequities in scientific leadership and innovation. The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Africa Open Lab (AOL) was established to address...

Contribution of Community Health Workers to Strengthening the Health System in Mali: Impact and Challenges, 2010-2024

Faced with a critical shortage of qualified personnel (6 health workers per 10,000 inhabitants compared to the 23 per 10,000 recommended by the World Health Organization) and limited access to healthcare, Mali institutionalized community-based essential health care in 2009. This...

The tradition of washing hands in a common bowl before eating: a qualitative study of the practice of communal bowl hand rinsing before mealtimes, in rural and urban Mali

<title>Abstract</title> Background Diarrhoeal disease is a leading cause of death in children under 5 years old globally, despite being largely preventable. It is widely known that individual handwashing with soap is key in preventing transmission of enteric pathogens. Communal b...

Characterising recent antimalarial resistance in West Africa: Insights from amplicon sequencing of 17,384 Plasmodium falciparum infection samples

<ns5:p> Background <ns5:italic>Plasmodium falciparum</ns5:italic> ( <ns5:italic>P. falciparum</ns5:italic> ) infection remains a significant public health threat in West Africa, where chemoprevention and first-line therapies are key interventions against malaria. However, the dev...

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Guideline on Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Management for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

There is a pressing need to address the unique challenges of managing Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where mental health resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. To develop this evidence-based guideline, we conducted a sy...

Malaria Vectors’ Diversity and Seasonality in Sustaining Disease Transmission in an Endemic Area of Faladie, Mali

The widespread circulation of the Anopheles vector is observed during the rainy season and clearly decreases during the dry season, when only a few mosquitoes are able to survive. This study aimed to identify the major species sustaining continued malaria transmission across seas...