Epidemiology and Global Health

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

   Impact of community piped water coverage on re-infection with urogenital schistosomiasis in rural South Africa

   Polycarp Mogeni et al.

   Scale-up of piped water coverage in the local community strongly protects against S. haematobium re-infection intensity among primary school-going children following treatment with praziquantel.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers

   Yinon M Bar-On et al.
3. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Reducing RSV hospitalisation in a lower-income country by vaccinating mothers-to-be and their households

   Samuel PC Brand et al.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   The hazards of smoking and the benefits of cessation: a critical summation of the epidemiological evidence in high-income countries

   Prabhat Jha

   Cumulatively, from 1950 to 2015, smoking-related disease has been the biggest cause of premature death in high-income countries, with elevated risks of smoking continuing well into the 21^st century.
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence

   Cara E Brook et al.

   Bats' uniquely robust innate antiviral immune defenses select for faster transmitting viruses likely to generate extreme virulence upon spillover to secondary hosts with immune systems divergent from those of bat.
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19

   Katelyn Gostic et al.

   Even in the best-case scenario, screening for COVID-19 misses well over half of infected travellers.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Estimating effectiveness of case-area targeted response interventions against cholera in Haiti

   Edwige Michel et al.

   Case-area targeted interventions conducted by rapid response teams appeared significantly effective to mitigate and shorten local cholera outbreaks in the Centre department of Haiti in 2015-2017.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Potential impact of outpatient stewardship interventions on antibiotic exposures of common bacterial pathogens

   Christine Tedijanto et al.

   Antibiotic stewardship in the outpatient setting can substantially reduce exposures of potential pathogens to common antibiotics, and complementary efforts are needed to reduce remaining exposures that occur in 'necessary' contexts.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Previously undetected super-spreading of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by deep sequencing

   Robyn S Lee et al.

   Incorporating within-host diversity in transmission, as identified by deep sequencing, can significantly change previously-held inferences, with major implications for genomic studies of transmission in tuberculosis and other pathogens as well.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Body height in young adult men and risk of dementia later in adult life

    Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen et al.

    Taller body height in young adulthood, as marker of early-life environment, is associated with lower risk of dementia diagnosis independently of cognitive reserve and family factors shared among brothers.