Epidemiology and Global Health

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

   Impact of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection on the risk of subsequent symptomatic malaria in a longitudinal cohort in Kenya

   Kelsey M Sumner et al.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health
   3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   4. Genetics and Genomics

   

   Evolutionary Medicine: A Special Issue

   Edited by George H Perry et al.

   eLife is pleased to present a Special Issue to highlight recent advances in the growing and increasingly interdisciplinary field of evolutionary medicine.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   FnCas9-based CRISPR diagnostic for rapid and accurate detection of major SARS-CoV-2 variants on a paper strip

   Manoj Kumar et al.

   A newly developed lateral flow assay can diagnose mutational signatures of major SARS CoV-2 variants in a rapid, inexpensive, and sequence-free manner.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Plasmodium falciparum K13 mutations in Africa and Asia impact artemisinin resistance and parasite fitness

   Barbara H Stokes et al.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Rapid feedback on hospital onset SARS-CoV-2 infections combining epidemiological and sequencing data

   Oliver Stirrup et al.

   Epidemiological and viral sequence data can be combined to provide standardised feedback on cases of hospital onset COVID-19 infection that would be useful for infection prevention and control.
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Mendelian randomization analysis provides causality of smoking on the expression of ACE2, a putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor

   Hui Liu et al.

   Smoking, measured by both initiation and intensity, are significantly associated with an elevated expression level of ACE2 in multiple human tissues/organs, subsequently increasing the susceptibility and severity of COVID-19.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Relationship between changing malaria burden and low birth weight in sub-Saharan Africa: A difference-in-differences study via a pair-of-pairs approach

   Siyu Heng et al.

   A novel pair-of-pairs matching approach finds that community-level reductions in malaria burden can potentially substantially reduce the low birth weight rate in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among firstborns.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses

   Dylan H Morris et al.

   Viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, retain infectivity longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities because these conditions slow down the chemical reactions that inactivate those viruses.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Lives saved with vaccination for 10 pathogens across 112 countries in a pre-COVID-19 world

   Jaspreet Toor et al.

   Vaccination activities that occurred before the COVID-19 pandemic, 2000-2019, are estimated to avert 50 million deaths, highlighting the enormous benefits of continued and improving vaccination.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Evaluating distributional regression strategies for modelling self-reported sexual age-mixing

    Timothy M Wolock et al.

    Integrating the sinh-arcsinh distribution into a distributional regression framework allows us to produce precise, local estimates of sexual age-mixing, facilitating more accurate modelling of sexually transmitted disease dynamics.