Francesco Checchi

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1 Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings. Science 2009 26.24
2 Supervised versus unsupervised intake of six-dose artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Mbarara, Uganda: a randomised trial. Lancet 2005 5.53
3 Health-care needs of people affected by conflict: future trends and changing frameworks. Lancet 2010 3.82
4 Adherence to a six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004 3.18
5 Violence and mortality in West Darfur, Sudan (2003-04): epidemiological evidence from four surveys. Lancet 2004 3.14
6 Operational response to malaria epidemics: are rapid diagnostic tests cost-effective? Trop Med Int Health 2006 2.39
7 Pre-emptive war epidemiology: lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lancet 2006 1.83
8 Cetyl-pyridinium chloride is useful for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.82
9 The burden of acute respiratory infections in crisis-affected populations: a systematic review. Confl Health 2010 1.72
10 Three drug combinations for late-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness: a randomized clinical trial in Uganda. PLoS Clin Trials 2006 1.72
11 Evaluation of the benefits and risks of introducing Ebola community care centers, Sierra Leone. Emerg Infect Dis 2015 1.56
12 Death rates from malaria epidemics, Burundi and Ethiopia. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 1.51
13 Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter and multidrug resistance 1 genes: parasite risk factors that affect treatment outcomes for P. falciparum malaria after artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-amodiaquine. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2014 1.51
14 Melarsoprol versus eflornithine for treating late-stage Gambian trypanosomiasis in the Republic of the Congo. Bull World Health Organ 2006 1.43
15 Characteristics of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Abkhazia (Georgia), a high-prevalence area in Eastern Europe. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2009 1.43
16 Methodological issues in the assessment of antimalarial drug treatment: analysis of 13 studies in eight African countries from 2001 to 2004. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2006 1.36
17 Mortality among displaced former UNITA members and their families in Angola: a retrospective cluster survey. BMJ 2003 1.36
18 Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency. Confl Health 2008 1.28
19 Treatment outcomes and risk factors for relapse in patients with early-stage human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in the Republic of the Congo. Bull World Health Organ 2006 1.25
20 The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa. Trends Parasitol 2007 1.22
21 Malaria in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan: baseline genotypic resistance and efficacy of the artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and artesunate plus amodiaquine combinations. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2005 1.22
22 Public health surveillance after the 2010 haiti earthquake: the experience of médecins sans frontières. PLoS Curr 2013 1.21
23 Identifying transmission cycles at the human-animal interface: the role of animal reservoirs in maintaining gambiense human african trypanosomiasis. PLoS Comput Biol 2013 1.19
24 Risk associated with asymptomatic parasitaemia occurring post-antimalarial treatment. Trop Med Int Health 2008 1.18
25 Low efficacy of the combination artesunate plus amodiaquine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria among children under 5 years in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. Trop Med Int Health 2006 1.18
26 Efficacy of two artemisinin combination therapies for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children under 5 years, Malakal, Upper Nile, Sudan. Malar J 2005 1.10
27 Effectiveness of melarsoprol and eflornithine as first-line regimens for gambiense sleeping sickness in nine Médecins Sans Frontières programmes. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008 1.09
28 Sentinel site community surveillance of mortality and nutritional status in southwestern Central African Republic, 2010. Popul Health Metr 2012 1.08
29 Community coverage of an antimalarial combination of artesunate and amodiaquine in Makamba Province, Burundi, nine months after its introduction. Malar J 2007 1.01
30 A new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings: validation study. Int J Epidemiol 2010 1.01
31 The burden of tuberculosis in crisis-affected populations: a systematic review. Lancet Infect Dis 2012 1.00
32 Treatment of tuberculosis in a region with high drug resistance: outcomes, drug resistance amplification and re-infection. PLoS One 2011 0.99
33 The effect of dosing strategies on the therapeutic efficacy of artesunate-amodiaquine for uncomplicated malaria: a meta-analysis of individual patient data. BMC Med 2015 0.99
34 Assessing antimalarial efficacy in a time of change to artemisinin-based combination therapies: the role of Médecins Sans Frontières. PLoS Med 2008 0.98
35 Different methodological approaches to the assessment of in vivo efficacy of three artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in African children. Malar J 2008 0.91
36 Implementation and utilisation of community-based mortality surveillance: a case study from Chad. Confl Health 2012 0.91
37 Exposure-Specific and Age-Specific Attack Rates for Ebola Virus Disease in Ebola-Affected Households, Sierra Leone. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.90
38 An algorithm to assess methodological quality of nutrition and mortality cross-sectional surveys: development and application to surveys conducted in Darfur, Sudan. Popul Health Metr 2011 0.88
39 Performance of small cluster surveys and the clustered LQAS design to estimate local-level vaccination coverage in Mali. Emerg Themes Epidemiol 2012 0.88
40 Estimates of the duration of untreated acute malnutrition in children from Niger. Am J Epidemiol 2011 0.87
41 Detection of infectious disease outbreaks in twenty-two fragile states, 2000-2010: a systematic review. Confl Health 2011 0.85
42 Syndromic algorithms for detection of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in South Sudan. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2013 0.83
43 Economic feasibility of a new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings. PLoS One 2011 0.82
44 African sleeping sickness. BMJ 2008 0.81
45 Ebola Virus Disease in Children, Sierra Leone, 2014-2015. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.81
46 Treating childhood pneumonia in hard-to-reach areas: a model-based comparison of mobile clinics and community-based care. BMC Health Serv Res 2012 0.75
47 Symptom- and Laboratory-Based Ebola Risk Scores to Differentiate Likely Ebola Infections. Emerg Infect Dis 2017 0.75