Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
Congolese virologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a Congolese microbiologist. He is the general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale . He was part of team at the Yambuku Catholic Mission Hospital that investigated the first Ebola outbreak, and was part of the effort that discovered Ebola as a new disease, although his exact role is still subject to controversy. In 2016, he led the research that designed, along with other researchers at the INRB and the National Institute of Health Vaccine Research Center in the US, one of the most promising treatment for Ebola, mAb114. The treatment was successfully experimented during recent outbreaks in the DRC, on the express decision of the then DRC Minister of Health, Dr Oly Ilunga, despite a prior negative advice from the World Health Organization.
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- SUIVI DU PREMIER CAS D'INFECTION À MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS CONFIRMÉ PAR CULTURE, PCR ET GÉNOTYPAGE EN RÉPUBLIQUE DU CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE (2008) (1)
- Rechutes après traitement chirurgical exclusif de l'infection à Mycobacterium ulcerans (ulcère de Buruli): étude des facteurs de risque chez 84 patients congolais (2009) (0)
- Revue d’épidémies de grippe humaine avant la mise en place de la surveillance sentinelle en République Démocratique du Congo (2017) (0)
- Mise en place d'un réseau national de confirmation des cas d'infection à Mycobacterium ulcerans en République Democratique du Congo; phase pilote: zone de santé rurale de Nsona-Mpangu, Province du Bas-Congo (2009) (0)
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