Epidemiology and Global Health

Epidemiology and Global Health

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Latest articles

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Antigenic drift and subtype interference shape A(H3N2) epidemic dynamics in the United States

    Amanda C Perofsky, John Huddleston ... Cécile Viboud
    Antigenic drift in influenza’s major surface proteins, hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, contributes to variability in epidemic magnitude across seasons but is less influential than subtype interference in shaping annual outbreaks.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Ethnic and region-specific genetic risk variants of stroke and its comorbid conditions can define the variations in the burden of stroke and its phenotypic traits

    Rashmi Sukumaran, Achuthsankar S Nair, Moinak Banerjee
    Genomic differences in stroke and its comorbid conditions can aid in refining the socio-economic interpretation of risk among different ethnicities and can assist in distinguishing their phenotypic variation.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Recent evolutionary origin and localized diversity hotspots of mammalian coronaviruses

    Renan Maestri, Benoît Perez-Lamarque ... Hélène Morlon
    The common ancestor of extant mammalian coronaviruses originated recently in a bat species and their diversification occurred via preferential host switches rather than through codiversification with mammals.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US

    Chelsea L Hansen, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen
    The competing mortality risk from cancer itself overshadows any increase in COVID-19 mortality risk due to cancer.

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    Indian Council of Medical Research, India
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    McGill University, Canada
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    University of Michigan, United States
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