Evaluation of the Noma Disease Burden Within the Noma Belt

JAMA Facial Plast Surg. 2018 Jul 1;20(4):332-333. doi: 10.1001/jamafacial.2018.0133.

David A Shaye^{1

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3}, Jens Rabbels⁴, Adeniyi Semiyu Adetunji⁵, Aidan Magee⁶, Daniel Vo⁷, Ryan Winters⁸

¹ Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Otolaryngology, University Teaching Hospital Kigali, University of Rwanda College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
⁴ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Katharinen Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁵ Children's Noma Hospital, Sokoto State, Nigeria.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Abstract

This study estimates the disease burden of noma, an opportunistic infection of the face that occurs in the setting of extreme poverty.