Epidemiology and Global Health

Latest articles

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

   Transmission dynamics and control of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in neonates in a developing country

   Thomas Crellen et al.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren who participated in a case-control study in urban Uganda

   Harriet Mpairwe et al.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   The mother’s risk of premature death after child loss across two centuries

   Unnur A Valdimarsdóttir et al.

   A large-scale, sibling-based analysis of the Icelandic population spanning two centuries demonstrates an increase in maternal mortality rates after child loss on both sides of a major demographic transition.
4. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Modeling the dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in humans during malaria infection

   Pengxing Cao et al.

   A mathematical model of blood-stage infection with Plasmodium falciparum malaria capturing the sexual stage of the parasite life-cycle is validated against human data, providing new insight into human-to-mosquito transmission.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Local human movement patterns and land use impact exposure to zoonotic malaria in Malaysian Borneo

   Kimberly M Fornace et al.

   Local human movement into mosquito habitats around forest edges intensifies interactions between pathogens, insects and people, increasing exposure risks to the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium knowlesi in Malaysian Borneo.
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Human Biology and Medicine

   Discovery proteomics in aging human skeletal muscle finds change in spliceosome, immunity, proteostasis and mitochondria

   Ceereena Ubaida-Mohien et al.

   The changes in the skeletal muscle proteome with age indicate the roots of the decline in muscle function with age.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Improved characterisation of MRSA transmission using within-host bacterial sequence diversity

   Matthew D Hall et al.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Seasonal variation and etiologic inferences of childhood pneumonia and diarrhea mortality in India

   Daniel S Farrar et al.

   Nationally-representative verbal autopsies can be linked to seasonal patterns, clinical syndromes, and climate regions to describe novel insights regarding the microbiologic etiologies of childhood pneumonia and diarrhea in India.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Electron cryo-microscopy of bacteriophage PR772 reveals the elusive vertex complex and the capsid architecture

   Hemanth KN Reddy et al.

   The structure and composition of the elusive vertex complex in Tectiviridae is finally revealed and the newly reported protein conformations help to maintain the capsid architecture.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization estimates of the effects of intelligence and education on health

    Neil Martin Davies et al.

    Many of the effects of intelligence on health and social outcomes later in life are mediated via education.