Prioritising pathogens for the management of severe febrile patients to improve clinical care in low- and middle-income countries.
Jennifer OsbornTeri RobertsEthan GuillenOscar BernalPaul RoddyStefano OngarelloArmand SprecherAnne-Laure PageIsabela RibeiroErwan PiriouAbiy TamratRoberto de la TourV Bhargavi RaoLaurence FlevaudTomas JensenLachlan McIverCassandra KellySabine DittrichPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2020)
This work highlighted once again the challenges of prioritising in global health, but it also shows that taking a two-pronged approach, combining available prevalence data with expert input, can result in a broadly applicable priority list. This comprehensive utility is particularly important in the context of product development, where a sufficient market size is essential to achieve a sustainable commercialized diagnostic product to address SFWS.