Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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

4. 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

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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

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8. 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

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9. Dramatic resurgence of malaria after 7 years of intensive vector control interventions in Eastern Uganda

   This article has 19 authors:

   1. Moses R. Kamya
   2. Joaniter I. Nankabirwa
   3. Emmanuel Arinaitwe
   4. John Rek
   5. Maato Zedi
   6. Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi
   7. Jimmy Opigo
   8. Sarah G. Staedke
   9. Ambrose Oruni
   10. Martin J. Donnelly
   11. Bryan Greenhouse
   12. Jessica Briggs
   13. Paul J. Krezanoski
   14. Teun Bousema
   15. Philip J. Rosenthal
   16. Peter Olwoch
   17. Prasanna Jagannathan
   18. Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
   19. Grant Dorsey

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10. A HIV-1 Gp41 Peptide-Liposome Vaccine Elicits Neutralizing Epitope-Targeted Antibody Responses in Healthy Individuals

    This article has 32 authors:

    1. Nathan B. Erdmann
    2. Wilton B. Williams
    3. Stephen R. Walsh
    4. Nicole Grunenberg
    5. Paul T. Edlefsen
    6. Paul A. Goepfert
    7. Derek W. Cain
    8. Kristen W. Cohen
    9. Janine Maenza
    10. Kenneth H. Mayer
    11. Hong Van Tieu
    12. Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk
    13. Edith Swann
    14. Huiyin Lu
    15. Stephen C. De Rosa
    16. Zachary Sagawa
    17. M. Anthony Moody
    18. Christopher B. Fox
    19. Guido Ferrari
    20. R.J. Edwards
    21. Priyamvada Acharya
    22. S. Munir Alam
    23. Robert Parks
    24. Margaret Barr
    25. Georgia D. Tomaras
    26. David C. Montefiori
    27. Peter B. Gilbert
    28. M. Juliana McElrath
    29. Lawrence Corey
    30. Barton F. Haynes
    31. Lindsey R. Baden
    32. NIAID HVTN 133 Study Group

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