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Organisation profile
Head of unit: Prof. Jan Jacobs
The Unit of Tropical Bacteriology (UTB) was created in 2008 in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium. It is headed by Prof. Jan Jacobs (MD - clinical microbiologist. UTB combines biomedical research, education and support of laboratory services. We focus on antibiotic resistance and both generic and specific laboratory capacity sharing. In order to achieve real impact we work closely together with the laboratory teams of our partner institutions in low- and middle-income countries.
The UTB is involved in capacity building and operational research programs in low-resource settings addressing laboratory quality, clinical bacteriology and development and implementation of adapted diagnostics.
Research is further extended to tropical bacterial diseases such as invasive salmonellosis, cholera and melioidosis. Oversea partners and projects are located – amongst others – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Peru.
As to education and training the UTB is actively involved in the courses of Tropical Medicine and International Health (lectures about hospital infection control and tropical bacterial diseases, laboratory medicine) and organisator of the AIM course, a short course on the containment of antibiotic resistance in low-resource settings.
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Profiles
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SIMBLE: Clinical diagnostic trial in Western Africa of a simplified blood culture system to improve healthcare in low-resource settings
Barbé, B., Hardy, L., Jacobs, J. & Van Wymeersch, K.
1/07/21 → 31/12/24
Project: Research Project
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Selected topics in hospital infection prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa
Kalema Yanga, J., Jacobs, J. & Lunguya, O.
1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Project: PhD-project
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Predicting and treating non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infections in children in sub-Saharan Africa
Tack, B., Jacobs, J., Toelen, J. & Lunguya, O.
17/04/20 → …
Project: PhD-project
Research output
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Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse
Kariuki, J. W., Jacobs, J., Ngogang, M. P. & Howland, O., 2023, In: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 12, 1, p. 3 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Accuracy of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin for diagnosing bacterial infections among subjects with persistent fever in the tropics
Van Duffel, L., Yansouni, C. P., Jacobs, J., Van Esbroeck, M., Ramadan, K., Buyze, J., Tsoumanis, A., Barbé, B., Boelaert, M., Verdonck, K., Chappuis, F. & Bottieau, E., 2022, In: Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9, 9, p. ofac434 9 p., 434.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Aetiologies of acute undifferentiated febrile illness at the emergency ward of the University of Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia
Akelew, Y., Pareyn, M., Lemma, M., Negash, M., Bewket, G., Derbew, A., Belay, G., Pollmann, J., Adriaensen, W., Peeters, M., Ombelet, S., Adane, A., Mohammed, R., van Griensven, J. & Cnops, L., 2022, In: Tropical Medicine and International Health. 27, 3, p. 271-279 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review