Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Comparing Strategies to Introduce Two New Antibiotics for Gonorrhea: A Modeling Study

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Madeleine C. Kline
   2. Kirstin Oliveira Roster
   3. David Helekal
   4. Eva Rumpler
   5. Yonatan H. Grad

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

2. Diagnostic accuracy of the Cobas ^® MTB and Cobas ^® MTB/RIF-INH assays on sputum and the Cobas ^® MTB assay on tongue swabs for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex detection in symptomatic adults in South Africa

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Anura David
   2. Lyndel Singh
   3. Pedro da Silva
   4. Keneilwe Peloakgosi-Shikwambani
   5. Zanele Nsingwane
   6. Violet Molepo
   7. Wendy Stevens
   8. Lesley Scott

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3. “That is why I trust”: A qualitative study on acceptability and feasibility of novel tongue swab diagnostics to assess people presenting with tuberculosis symptoms in Viet Nam and Zambia

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Alyssa Sales
   2. Hien Le
   3. Seke Muzazu
   4. Evelyn Kunda-Ng’andu
   5. Maria del Mar Castro
   6. Andrew D. Kerkhoff
   7. Ha Phan
   8. Claudia M. Denkinger
   9. Adithya Cattamanchi
   10. Nora West
   11. Monde Muyoyeta

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4. Adult hospitalizations due to hepatitis A virus infection in six tertiary hospitals across Bangladesh: December 2014 – September 2017

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Banda AA Khalifa
   2. Repon C Paul
   3. Arifa Nazneen
   4. Kajal C Banik
   5. Shariful Amin Sumon
   6. Kishor K Paul
   7. Arifa Akram
   8. M Salim Uzzaman
   9. Stephen P Luby
   10. Emily S Gurley

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5. Emetine dihydrochloride inhibits Chikungunya virus nsP2 helicase and shows antiviral activity in the cell culture and mouse model of virus infection

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Anshula Sharma
   2. Chandru Subramani
   3. KA Shouri
   4. Ghanshyam Sharma
   5. Brohmomoy Basu
   6. Abhay Deep Pandey
   7. Archana Rout
   8. Devendra Sharma
   9. Deepti Jain
   10. Sudhanshu Vrati

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

6. Integrated treatment-decision algorithms for childhood TB: modelling diagnostic performance and costs

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Mary Gaeddert
   2. Devan Jaganath
   3. Abdulkadir Civan
   4. Hoa Nguyen
   5. Maryline Bonnet
   6. Eric Wobudeya
   7. Olivier Marcy
   8. Manuela De Allegri
   9. Claudia M. Denkinger

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7. Campus-based genomic surveillance uncovers early emergence of a future dominant A(H3N2) influenza clade

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Matthew Scotch
   2. Temitope O.C. Faleye
   3. Jillian M. Wright
   4. Sarah Finnerty
   5. Rolf U. Halden
   6. Arvind Varsani

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

8. Post-sampling degradation of viral RNA in wastewater impacts the quality of PCR-based concentration estimates

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. James D. Munday
   2. Jolinda de Korne-Elenbaas
   3. Charles Gan
   4. Adrian Lison
   5. Julien Riou
   6. Christoph Ort
   7. Timothy R. Julian
   8. Tanja Stadler

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

9. Clinical Trypanosoma cruzi isolates share a common antigen repertoire that is absent from culture adapted strains

   This article has 13 authors:

   1. Jill M.C. Hakim
   2. Sneider A.G. Guiterrez
   3. Angel Duran
   4. Edith Malaga-Machaca
   5. Carolina Duque
   6. Lulu Singer
   7. Rony Colanzi
   8. Jacqueline E. Sherbuk
   9. Caryn Bern
   10. Robert H. Gilman
   11. Lousia A. Messenger
   12. Monica R. Mugnier
   13. Working Group on Chagas Disease in Bolivia and Peru

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10. Charting the Circulating Proteome in ME/CFS: Cross System Profiling and Mechanistic insights

    This article has 13 authors:

    1. August Hoel
    2. Fredrik Hoel
    3. Sissel Elisabeth Furesund Dyrstad
    4. Henrique Chapola
    5. Ingrid Gurvin Rekeland
    6. Kristin Risa
    7. Kine Alme
    8. Kari Sørland
    9. Karl Albert Brokstad
    10. Hans-Peter Marti
    11. Olav Mella
    12. Øystein Fluge
    13. Karl Johan Tronstad

    Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases