Isdore Chola Shamputa

Biographic Data

ID7031025
NAMEIsdore Chola Shamputa
GIVEN NAMESIsdore Chola
FAMILY NAMEShamputa
SIGNATURESHAMPUTA I C
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
ORCID0000-0003-1888-8936
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Who thrives in Canada? An Examination of social factors, healthcare access, and immigration status

    Open AccessSonia S Anand, Shrina Patel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    High-income countries like Canada report some of the worlds’ highest life-satisfaction levels, yet less is known about how life satisfaction varies by race and immigration status. This study investigates the factors that influence subjective well-being among 8,063 adults from the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds study recruited between 2014 and 2018, including a subset of 2,142 immigrants. Measures of demographic, socioeconomic, heal…

  • Prevalence of drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a Nepalese tertiary care hospital

    Open AccessAnita Bhandari, Saroj Khatiwada et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteriaceae is an emerging global public health problem. Numerous studies have reported community-acquired AmpC beta-lactamase and extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae in Nepal. However, there are limited data on community-acquired Metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae. A hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using 294 Enterobacteriacea…

  • Tuberculosis related barriers and facilitators among immigrants in Atlantic Canada

    Open AccessIsdore Chola Shamputa, Moira A Law et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and affects approximately one-quarter of the world’s population. Immigrant populations in Canada are disproportionately affected by TB. Canada’s immigration medical examinations include screening for active TB but not latent TB infection (LTBI). In LTBI, the bacterium remains dormant within the host but can reactivate and cause disease. Once active, TB can be transm…

  • Survival and predictors of death in tuberculosis/HIV coinfection cases in Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Open AccessÉvelin Maria Brand, M Rossetto et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Background Tuberculosis is a curable disease, which remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases worldwide, and it is the leading cause of death in people living with HIV. The purpose is to examine survival and predictors of death in Tuberculosis/HIV coinfection cases from 2009 to 2013. Methods We estimated the survival of 2,417 TB/HIV coinfection cases in Porto Alegre, from diagnosis up to 85 months of follow-up. We estimated haz…

  • Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Humans and Cattle in Namwala District, Zambia

    Open AccessSydney Malama, John Bwalya Muma et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2014

  • Management of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting in Zambia

    Open AccessChanda Mulenga, David Mwakazanga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    There is a need to emphasise the importance of submitting follow-up sputum during patient education and counselling in order to enhance patient adherence and ultimately treatment outcome