Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Mapping global emergence of pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential to inform and accelerate pandemic prevention, preparedness, readiness and response

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. David Pigott
   2. Barbara A Han
   3. Adrian A Castellanos
   4. Huong T Chu
   5. Erin N Frame
   6. Narmada Venkateswaran
   7. Oliver J Brady
   8. Ahyoung J Lim
   9. Diana P. Rojas
   10. Sophie von Dobschuetz
   11. Maria D. Van Kerkhove

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

2. Genomic Epidemiology to Investigate the Origins and Zoonotic Implications of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli on Beef and Lamb Meat Sold by Independent Butchers in Wales

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Jordan E. Sealey
   2. Noora Peltonen
   3. Beatriz Llamazares
   4. Yelyzaveta Moiseienko
   5. Oliver Mounsey
   6. Jasmine Taylor
   7. Laura Wright
   8. Philip Williams
   9. Matthew B. Avison

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

3. In Vitro Activity of a Novel Metal-Based Antimicrobial against Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Raquel L. Almeida
   2. Nuno A. Faria
   3. Mariana Araújo
   4. Cláudia Malta-Luís
   5. Francisco C. Mendes
   6. Oscar Lenis-Rojas
   7. Beatriz Royo
   8. Maria Miragaia

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

4. Mapping high-rate clusters of animal contact-related human Salmonella enterica single-state outbreaks in the United States, 2009–2022: A spatial epidemiological approach to inform public health surveillance

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Hammad Ur Rehman Bajwa
   2. Suman Bhowmick
   3. Csaba Varga

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

5. Rapid phylogenomic analysis for viral surveillance and metagenomic profiling with Omni2Tree

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Sina Majidian
   2. Adrian Chalco
   3. Xinchang Zheng
   4. Richard J Webby
   5. Andrew S Bowman
   6. Rebecca L Poulson
   7. Nicole M Nemeth
   8. Fritz J Sedlazeck
   9. Daniel P Agustinho

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

6. High diversity amongst African Treponema pallidum genomes provides a window into global transmission dynamics of syphilis: A genomic epidemiology study

   This article has 23 authors:

   1. Mathew A Beale
   2. Michael Marks
   3. Sarah Burl
   4. Kirsty E Ambridge
   5. Ethel Dauya
   6. Aamirah Mussa
   7. Bame Bame
   8. Sikhulile Moyo
   9. Michael Owusu
   10. David P Kateete
   11. Rogers Kamulegeya
   12. Edgar Kigozi
   13. Denis Kimbugwe
   14. Becca L Handley
   15. Mahlape P Mahlangu
   16. Johanna ME Venter
   17. Bianca Da Costa Dias
   18. Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
   19. Chelsea Morroni
   20. Edith Nakku-Joloba
   21. Rashida A Ferrand
   22. Etienne E Müller
   23. Nicholas R Thomson

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

7. In-home molecular testing of tongue swabs and sputum to inform household-level screening with diagnostic escalation strategies for tuberculosis contact investigation: a prospective cohort study in South Africa

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Andrew Medina-Marino
   2. Sharon Olifant
   3. Maria Pieruccini
   4. Kuhle Fiphaza
   5. Nondumiso Ngcelwane
   6. Morten Ruhwald
   7. Adam Penn-Nicholson
   8. Bernard Fourie

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

8. Safety and immunogenicity of a vaccine against coxsackieviruses B (PRV-101) – follow-up of the first-in-human phase 1 trial

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Jutta E. Laiho
   2. Jussi P. Lehtonen
   3. Leena Puustinen
   4. Susanna Kääriäinen
   5. Taina Härkönen
   6. Sami Oikarinen
   7. Francisco León
   8. Miguel Sanjuan
   9. Mika Scheinin
   10. Mikael Knip
   11. Heikki Hyöty

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

9. Selective effects of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors in gammaherpesvirus reactivation from latency

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Joy E Gibson
   2. Linda F van Dyk

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

10. Estimating malaria attributable fraction using quantitative PCR in a longitudinal cohort in Eastern Uganda

    This article has 17 authors:

    1. Anne C Martin
    2. Qiyu Wang
    3. Shakira Babirye
    4. Emmanuel Arinaitwe
    5. Maato Zedi
    6. Isaac Ssewanyana
    7. Felistas Nankya Namirimu
    8. Patience Nayebare
    9. Peter Olwoch
    10. Stephen Tukwasibwe
    11. Prasanna Jagannathan
    12. Joaniter I. Nankabirwa
    13. Moses Kamya
    14. Grant Dorsey
    15. Bryan Greenhouse
    16. Jessica Briggs
    17. Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer

    Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases