Background: Dried blood spots (DBS) have been proposed as potentially tool for detecting invasive bacterial diseases. Methods: We evaluated the use of DBS for S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae detection among children in Mozambique. Blood for DBS and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs were collected from children w...
Vaccines are an effective public health measure. Vaccination coverage has improved in Africa in the last decades but has still not reached WHO/UNICEF target of at least 90% first-dose coverage for vaccines in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) implemented in Mozambique in 1979. There are concer...
Objective: To measure the disease burden and epidemiological characteristics of invasive Haemophilus influenzae in rural Mozambican children. Methods: As part of the clinical management of children admitted to Manhiça District Hospital, blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples were collected between May 20...
