Epidemiology and Global Health

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

   Viral load and contact heterogeneity predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission and super-spreading events

   Ashish Goyal et al.

   A mathematical model was used to establish a simple conceptual basis for why super-spreader events fundamentally drive the spread of SARS-CoV-2 but not influenza.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Medicine

   Epidemiological transition to mortality and refracture following an initial fracture

   Thao Phuong Ho-Le et al.

   The concept of compound fracture risk is redefined to combine the risk that an individual will sustain a fracture and the risk of mortality once the fracture has occurred.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Genomic epidemiology of COVID-19 in care homes in the East of England

   William L Hamilton et al.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Medicine

   Osteoporotic Fracture: Bone age is not just for kids

   Jane A Cauley, Dolores M Shoback

   More informed discussions between physicians and older adults about the consequences of an initial osteoporotic fracture could encourage more patients to consider treatments that protect against future fracture.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   COVID-19 CG enables SARS-CoV-2 mutation and lineage tracking by locations and dates of interest

   Albert Tian Chen et al.

   COVID-19 CG is an open source web resource that allows vaccine, therapeutics, and diagnostics developers to track SARS-CoV-2 mutations and lineages by location and time.
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types

   Zharko Daniloski et al.

   A pervasive mutation in the Spike protein of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 results in virions that are up to eightfold more infectious.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: Intersections and implications

   Gwenan M Knight et al.

   COVID-19 will have an ongoing impact on antimicrobial resistance acquisition, transmission, and burden, requiring the close attention of researchers globally to generate a complete evidence base for the shifted dynamics.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   In-host population dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex during active disease

   Roger Vargas et al.

   Bulk whole genome sequencing data can be used to study the genetic variation present in pathogenic bacterial populations over the time-course of a single infection within a host.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Protective effect of Mediterranean-type glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency against Plasmodium vivax malaria

   Ghulam R Awab et al.

   The Mediterranean variant of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency confers a strong gene-dose proportional protective effect against symptomatic Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Pashtun ethnic group.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Improved lipidomic profile mediates the effects of adherence to healthy lifestyles on coronary heart disease

    Jiahui Si et al.

    Lifestyle interventions and statins may target different components of the lipid profile, suggesting that they are not redundant strategies but could be combined for better benefits.