Infectious Diseases (except HIV/AIDS)

Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia

1. Marc-Antoine Guery
2. Sukai Ceesay
3. Sainabou Drammeh
4. Fatou K Jaiteh
5. Umberto d’Alessandro
6. Teun Bousema
7. David J Conway
8. Antoine Claessens

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  eLife Assessment

  This article presents a valuable genetic spatio-temporal analysis of malaria-infected individuals from four villages in a highly seasonal transmission setting in The Gambia, covering the period between December 2014 and May 2017. Evidence generated by the study's laboratory and data processing approaches is solid and helps to advance the understanding of malaria in The Gambia, particularly due to its longitudinal design and the inclusion of asymptomatic cases.

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Spotting the Silent Threat: Early Detection of Subclinical Tuberculosis in High-Risk Individuals

1. Evangeline Ann Daniel
2. Manohar Nesakumar
3. S Hemalatha
4. Nancy Hilda
5. Kannan Thiruvengadam
6. Umashankar Vetrivel
7. Anbalagan Selvaraj
8. Sathyamurthi Pattabiraman
9. Brindha Bhanu
10. Amsaveni Sivaprakasam
11. Sudhakar Natarajan
12. Vandana Kulkarni
13. Rajesh Karyakarte
14. Mandar Paradkar
15. Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar
16. Vidya Mave
17. Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran
18. Amita Gupta
19. Luke Elizabeth Hanna

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The association between undetected heteroresistance and antibiotic treatment failure in complicated urinary tract infection

1. Carter N. Abbott
2. Aditi Dhillon
3. Sushma Timalsina
4. Elise Furr
5. Patrick Velicitat
6. Adam Belley
7. Navaneeth Narayanan
8. Keith S. Kaye
9. David S. Weiss

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Evolution of Pandemic Cholera at its Global Source

1. Amber Barton
2. Mokibul Hassan Afrad
3. Alyce Taylor-Brown
4. Nisha Singh
5. Chetan Thakur
6. Taufiqul Islam
7. Sadia Isfat Ara Rahman
8. Marjahan Akhtar
9. Yasmin Ara Begum
10. Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan
11. Ashraful Islam Khan
12. Neelam Taneja
13. Nicholas R. Thomson
14. Firdausi Qadri

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Estimation of Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Based on Whole Genome Sequences

1. Jiye Kwon
2. Jose Jaimes
3. Mary E Wikswo
4. Eileen J Klein
5. Mary Allen Staat
6. James D Chappell
7. Geoffrey A Weinberg
8. Christopher J Harrison
9. Rangaraj Selvarangan
10. Coreen Johnson
11. Daniel M Weinberger
12. Joshua L Warren
13. Mathew D Esona
14. Michael D Bowen
15. Virginia E Pitzer

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  eLife Assessment

  Kwon et al. present an important paper using a novel approach to estimating rotavirus vaccine efficacy using data from a passive surveillance network in the US. They provide convincing evidence to support their conclusion that using the whole genome, rather than previous use of two surface proteins, enhances our understanding of strain-specific vaccine efficacy. These findings have implications for this vaccine specifically as well as type-specific vaccine evaluation more generally.

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Treatment outcomes of bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective and matched cohort study

1. Lindokuhle Mdlenyani
2. Zahraa Mohamed
3. Jacob AM Stadler
4. Nomfuneko Mtwa
5. Graeme Meintjes
6. Robin Warren
7. Johanna Kuhlin
8. Sean Wasserman

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Mapping of the country-wide prevalence of non-malarial febrile illnesses in areas with varying malaria transmission intensities in Mainland Tanzania

1. Salehe S. Mandai
2. Angelina J. Kisambale
3. Daniel A. Petro
4. Catherine Bakari
5. Gervas A. Chacha
6. Rule Budodo
7. Rashid A. Madebe
8. Dativa Pereus
9. Daniel P. Challe
10. Ramadhani Moshi
11. Ruth B. Mbwambo
12. Grace K. Kanyankole
13. Sijenunu Aaron
14. Daniel Mbwambo
15. Stella Kajange
16. Samwel Lazaro
17. Ntuli Kapologwe
18. Celine I. Mandara
19. Misago D. Seth
20. Deus S. Ishengoma

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MultiSeq-AMR: A modular amplicon-sequencing workflow for rapid detection of bloodstream infection and antimicrobial resistance markers

1. Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib
2. Katarina Oravcova
3. Kirstyn Brunker
4. Paul Everest
5. Ma Jowina H. Galarion
6. Manuel Fuentes
7. Catherine Wilson
8. Michael E. Murphy
9. Taya Forde

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Performance characteristics and potential public health impact of improved pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines targeting childhood burden

1. Josephine Malinga
2. Lydia Braunack-Mayer
3. Thiery Masserey
4. Aurélien Cavelan
5. Daniel Chandramohan
6. Alassane Dicko
7. Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo
8. Sherrie L Kelly
9. Epke A Le Rutte
10. Narimane Nekkab
11. Melissa A Penny

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Timely vaccine strain selection and genomic surveillance improves evolutionary forecast accuracy of seasonal influenza A/H3N2

1. John Huddleston
2. Trevor Bedford

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  eLife Assessment

  This study investigated the influence of genomic information and timing of vaccine strain selection on the accuracy of influenza A/H3N2 forecasting. The authors utilised appropriate statistical methods and have provided solid evidence that is an important contribution to the evidence base. While the study addresses a key aspect of public health, the impact is rather limited by its exclusive reliance on predictive methods using genomic information, without incorporating phenotypic data.

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