Epidemiology and Global Health

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1. 1. Ecology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Ecological multiplex interactions determine the role of species for parasite spread amplification

   Massimo Stella et al.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Conjunction of factors triggering waves of seasonal influenza

   Ishanu Chattopadhyay et al.

   Three complementary computational approaches reveal a set of putative causes of initiation of pan-USA waves of influenza.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Impact of the scale-up of piped water on urogenital schistosomiasis infection in rural South Africa

   Frank Tanser et al.

   Scale-up of safe water supplies decreases a child's risk of urogenital schistosomiasis infection by eight-fold in a typical rural African population.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Immunology and Inflammation

   A single, continuous metric to define tiered serum neutralization potency against HIV

   Peter Hraber et al.

   To quantify serum or antibody activity against HIV-1, logistic regression of single-dilution neutralization outcomes can efficiently summarize neutralization potency and indicate which samples may lack sufficient statistical support, for high-throughput screening in large-scale vaccine trials.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Variation in natural exposure to anopheles mosquitoes and its effects on malaria transmission

   Wamdaogo M Guelbéogo et al.

   Heterogeneity in exposure to malaria vectors, including sporozoite-infected mosquitoes, contributes to the variation in human infection risk and amplifies the local transmission potential.
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Genomics and Evolutionary Biology

   MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface

   Gytis Dudas et al.

   MERS-CoV infections in the Arabian Peninsula are the result of several hundred spillover events from viruses circulating in camels into the human population.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Science Forum: Unit of analysis issues in laboratory-based research

   Nick R Parsons et al.

   A simulation study is used to demonstrate how mistakes in identifying the experimental unit and the unit of analysis can lead to incorrect analyses and inappropriate inferences when reporting research studies.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Plant Biology

   Evolutionary transitions between beneficial and phytopathogenic Rhodococcus challenge disease management

   Elizabeth A Savory et al.

   The horizontal acquisition of virulence plasmids is potentiated by production practices in plant nurseries and is sufficient to transition Rhodococcus from being beneficial to being pathogenic.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Plant Biology

   Plant Pathology: Plasmid-powered evolutionary transitions

   Ryan A Melnyk, Cara H Haney

   The acquisition of a virulence plasmid is sufficient to turn a beneficial strain of Rhodococcus bacteria into a pathogen.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on telomere length among children in a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh

    Audrie Lin et al.

    In a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh, an intensive, combined water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition intervention delivered to compounds of newborn children increased telomere length attrition during their first year of life.