8 May 2025 Articles

End of SIMBLE study visit at CHU-YO in Burkina Faso

From 18 till 20 March 2025, the SIMBLE team visited the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo (CHU-YO) in Burkina Faso for the end of study visit.

Participant recruitment for the SIMBLE study took place from 26 December 2023 to 11 September 2024 at the site of CHU-YO, Burkina Faso, during which 531 participants were enrolled. Barbara Barbé and Gaëtan Van Aelst, respectively the principal investigator (PI) and monitor of the study at ITM, travelled to Ouagadougou to do a final monitoring visit from 18 to 20 March 2025. They verified the informed consent forms and performed source data verification. Most corrections were done on site and a few pending issues were noted in the monitoring report. A first shipment of bacterial isolates took place during this visit, for which confirmation will be done by MALDI-TOF at ITM. Next, the database will be cleaned and closed, followed by the data analysis.

Congratulations to the Burkinabe study team for their dedication and collaboration during the SIMBLE field study!

Kalifa Ouattara (laboratory technician, CHU-YO) processing blood cultures at the bacteriology laboratory

Abdourasmané Ouedraogo and Kalifa Ouattara (laboratory technicians, CHU-YO) in front of the Bactec FX-40 modules

From left to right: Christophe Guira (laboratory study coordinator, CHU-YO), Barbara Barbé (PI, ITM), Prof Adama Zida (PI, CHU-YO), Gaëtan Van Aelst (study monitor, ITM), Adjaratou Beloum (PhD student and study coordinator, CHU-YO), Pousbila Bassaima (head of social services, CHU-YO)