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17:45 - 18:30
Keynote: understanding fever and the acute fever illnesses landscape
David MABEY
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Mérieux Foundation event
Febrile illness: a unified approach to protocol design for multicentered studies
January 21-23, 2019 - Les Pensieres Center for Global Health, Veyrier du Lac (France)
Summary
This 2 and half day meeting aimed to foster exchanges with experts currently conducting research, developing new tools and strategies relating to surveillance and management of febrile illnesses to address more accurately this syndromic paradigm, with the most primary focus in low-resource settings, in order to define key research questions to addressing identified gaps / novel hypothesis via multicentered studies.
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Day 1 Monday, January 21
Day 2 Tuesday, January 22
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18:30 - 19:10
Keynote: WHO/Unicef Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and child health
Shamim QAZI
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Session 1 - Epidemiology of acute fevers
Chairs: Florence PRADEL & Yoel LUBELL
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8:50 - 9:20
What are the preventable and/or treatable causes of febrile illness that we are currently failing to recognize in resource-limited settings
Valérie D’ACREMONT
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Gabriel network members present descriptive data on fever
Understanding the relative importance of different causes of illness among adults and children with fever attending health care services
Session 2 - Fever: the research landscape
Chairs: Katherine PLEWES & Juliet BRYANT
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13:20 - 13:50
Research on "causes of fever": an overview of studies to date, and a brief update on FIEBRE
Heidi HOPKINS
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13:50 - 15:30
The diagnostic fever landscape and ongoing studies (at FIND)
Sabine DITTRICH
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13:50 - 15:30
MSF’s febrile illness diagnostic program: a multiplex, multi-analyte tool to improve diagnosis of severe febrile illness
Teri ROBERTS
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13:50 - 15:30
Research progress in biomarkers for effective triage for viral and bacterial infections
Jianwei WANG
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16:15 - 16:45
Novel case management strategies including algorithm development and validation
Valérie D’ACREMONT
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17:25 - 17:45
The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in Northern Thailand
Marco HAENSSGEN
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