Cecilia Ferreyra

Biographic Data

ID5436951
NAMECecilia Ferreyra
GIVEN NAMESCecilia
FAMILY NAMEFerreyra
SIGNATUREFERREYRA C
AFFILIATIONSFIND
ORCID0000-0001-5480-7940
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • A potential exodus

    Open AccessDora Herrera, Lennia Matos et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2025

    Introduction The alarming dropout rates among university students in Peru deplete the country’s human resources and reduce prospects for personal growth and societal development. Explaining those rates calls for a comprehensive and holistic approach beyond the students’ socio-economic characteristics. This study seeks to identify the socio-demographic, academic and psychological variables that predict dropout intention among university students i…

  • Rapid bacterial identification and resistance detection using a low complexity molecular diagnostic platform in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessTinashe Mwaturura, Ioana D Olaru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a major cause of mortality in low-resource settings. Effective microbiological culture services are a bottleneck in diagnosis and surveillance. AIM: We aimed to evaluate the performance of the BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2, bioMérieux) assay in a low-resource setting laboratory in comparison to standard practice. METHODS: This five month prospective validation study included all positive blood cultu…

  • Evaluation of a novel point-of-care lateral flow assay screening for Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection among pregnant women in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessKevin Martín, Ethel Dauya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Affordable, easy-to-use and rapid diagnostics may support a move away from syndromic management for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in resource-constrained settings. A lateral flow assay for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG-LFA) has shown high sensitivity and specificity (>90%) in symptomatic individuals. We investigated the performance and acceptability of this assay as a screening tool for NG among pregnant women. This evaluation was embedded w…

  • Progress made in digitalizing antimicrobial resistance surveillance in a One Health approach in Kenya

    Open AccessVeronicah Chuchu, Veronicah M Chuchu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health, affecting human and animal health, agriculture, food safety, and the environment. The control of AMR is often challenging, particularly when data are scanty or siloed in individual sectors. To develop evidence-based control policies for AMR, an electronic information system that integrates AMR data from various sectors, in a One Health approach, is critical. Met…

  • A call to bridge the diagnostic gap

    Open AccessBirgitta Gleeson, Cecilia Ferreyra et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BOX Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the greatest burden of neonatal mortality, with sepsis being a major contributor

  • Application of diagnostic network optimization in Kenya and Nepal to design integrated, sustainable and efficient bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance surveillance networks

    Open AccessMarie Brunetti, Amit Singh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, which experience the highest burden of AMR. Critical to combatting AMR is ensuring there are effective, accessible diagnostic networks in place to diagnose, monitor and prevent AMR, but many low- and middle-income countries lack such networks. Consequently, there is substantial need for approaches that can inform the design of…

  • Diagnostic tests to mitigate the antimicrobial resistance pandemic—Still the problem child

    Open AccessCecilia Ferreyra, Birgitta Gleeson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The UK Government's 2015 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Review Seven years on, this remains purely aspirational, and diagnostics continue to be the problem child of the AMR pandemic. COVID-19 has demonstrated just how far we still are from such a goal; despite rapid diagnostics for COVID-19 being developed within months of identification of SARS-CoV-2, the virus was able to drive global, large-scale inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for unsubs…

  • Provision and continuation of antiretroviral therapy during acute conflict

    Open AccessCecilia Ferreyra, D O’brien et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2018

    This experience provides further evidence that provision of HIV treatment and emergency drug stocks can be successfully provided to most patients in both conflict-affected settings

  • Effectiveness of a PMTCT programme in rural Western Kenya

    Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Cecilia Ferreyra et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    We assess the coverage of a Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission (PMTCT) programme in Busia (Kenya) from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2008 and estimate the risk of transmission of HIV. We also estimate the odds of HIV transmission according to pharmacological intervention received. Programme coverage was estimated as the proportion of mother-baby pairs receiving any antiretroviral (ARV) regimen among all HIV-positive women attending servic…

  • Imagined communities, contested watersheds

    Open AccessCecilia Ferreyra, Rob C De Loë et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2007Cited by: 12References: 32

  • An institutional perspective on local capacity for source water protection

    Open AccessJanet L Ivey, Rob De Loë et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2006Cited by: 4References: 3