Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Obesity Is Associated With Increased Pediatric Dengue Virus Infection and Disease: A 9-Year Cohort Study in Managua, Nicaragua

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Reinaldo Mercado-Hernandez
   2. Rachel Myers
   3. Fausto Andres Bustos Carillo
   4. José Victor Zambrana
   5. Brenda López
   6. Nery Sanchez
   7. Aubree Gordon
   8. Angel Balmaseda
   9. Guillermina Kuan
   10. Eva Harris

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

2. Parallel Trends in an Unparalleled Pandemic Difference-in-differences for infectious disease policy evaluation

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Shuo Feng
   2. Alyssa Bilinski

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

3. Ecological impacts of climate change will transform public health priorities for zoonotic and vector-borne disease

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. David W. Redding
   2. Rory Gibb
   3. Kate E. Jones

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4. The Effect of Conditional Cash Transfers on Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality is Determined by Ethnoracial and Socioeconomic Factors: A Cohort Study of 54 Million Individuals in Brazil

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Gabriela dos Santos de Jesus
   2. Priscila Scaff Pinto
   3. Andréa Silva
   4. Daniella Cavalcanti
   5. Iracema Lua
   6. Maria Yuri Ichihara
   7. Mauricio Lima Barreto
   8. Delia Boccia
   9. Mauro Niskier Sanchez
   10. Davide Rasella

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5. Chalkophore mediated respiratory oxidase flexibility controls M. tuberculosis virulence

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. John A Buglino
   2. Yaprak Ozakman
   3. Chad E Hatch
   4. Anna Benjamin
   5. Derek S Tan
   6. Michael S Glickman

   This article has been curated by 1 group:

   • Curated by eLife

     eLife Assessment

     In this important study, the authors advance our understanding of copper uptake by chalkophores and their targeted metalloproteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These convincing data demonstrate that chalkophore-acquired copper is solely incorporated into the Mtb bcc:aa3 copper-iron respiratory oxidase under low copper conditions, and that chalkophore-mediated protection of the respiratory chain is critical to Mtb virulence. These findings may be leveraged for drug discovery and will be of broad interest to those studying bacterial pathogenesis.

   Reviewed by eLife, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

6. Proteomics analysis of peripheral blood monocytes from patients in early dengue infection reveals potential markers of subsequent fluid leakage

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Nilanka Perera
   2. Abhinav Kumar
   3. Bevin Gangadharan
   4. Diyanath Ranasinghe
   5. Ananda Wijewickrama
   6. Gathsaurie Neelika Malavige
   7. Joanna L. Miller
   8. Nicole Zitzmann

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

7. Laboratory validation of a simplified DNA extraction protocol followed by a portable qPCR detection of M. tuberculosis DNA suitable for point of care settings

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Tainá dos Santos Soares
   2. Graziele Lima Bello
   3. Ianca Moraes dos Santos Petry
   4. Maria Rita Castilho Nicola
   5. Larissa Vitoria da Silva
   6. Regina Bones Barcellos
   7. Joana Morez Silvestri
   8. Maria Lucia Rossetti
   9. Alexandre Dias Tavares Costa

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8. MX2 restricts HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 1 by forming cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates that mimic nuclear pore complexes

   This article has 15 authors:

   1. George D. Moschonas
   2. Louis Delhaye
   3. Robin Cooreman
   4. Franziska Hüsers
   5. Anayat Bhat
   6. Delphine De Sutter
   7. Eef Parthoens
   8. Anne-Sophie Desmet
   9. Aleksandra Maciejczuk
   10. Hanna Grzesik
   11. Saskia Lippens
   12. Zeger Debyser
   13. Beate Sodeik
   14. Sven Eyckerman
   15. Xavier Saelens

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9. Cost-effectiveness of end-game strategies against sleeping sickness across the Democratic Republic of Congo

   This article has 17 authors:

   1. Marina Antillon
   2. Ching-I Huang
   3. Samuel A. Sutherland
   4. Ronald E. Crump
   5. Paul E. Brown
   6. Paul R. Bessell
   7. Emily H. Crowley
   8. Rian Snijders
   9. Andrew Hope
   10. Iñaki Tirados
   11. Sophie Dunkley
   12. Paul Verlé
   13. Junior Lebuki
   14. Chansy Shampa
   15. Erick Mwamba Miaka
   16. Fabrizio Tediosi
   17. Kat S. Rock

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

10. The Spx stress regulator confers high-level β-lactam resistance and decreases susceptibility to last-line antibiotics in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    This article has 13 authors:

    1. Tobias Krogh Nielsen
    2. Ida Birkjær Petersen
    3. Lijuan Xu
    4. Maria Disen Barbuti
    5. Viktor Mebus
    6. Anni Justh
    7. Abdulelah Ahmed Alqarzaee
    8. Nicolas Jacques
    9. Cécile Oury
    10. Vinai Thomas
    11. Morten Kjos
    12. Camilla Henriksen
    13. Dorte Frees

    Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases