Epidemiology and Global Health

Epidemiology and Global Health

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Rift Valley fever virus dynamics in a transhumant cattle system in The Gambia

    Essa Jarra, Divine Ekwem ... Daniel T Haydon
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Heterogeneous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality: a register-linked population-based follow-up study

    Hannu Lahtinen, Jaakko Kaprio ... Pekka Martikainen
    Polygenic indices related to the best-established social, psychological, and behavioural mortality risk phenotypes had the strongest associations with mortality.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Assessing evidence of immune imprinting in serological patterns of influenza immune response

    Bernardo García-Carreras, Bingyi Yang ... Derek AT Cummings
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Global risk mapping of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and H5Nx in the light of epidemic episodes occurring from 2020 onwards

    Marie-Cécile Dupas, Maria F Vincenti-Gonzalez ... Simon Dellicour
    Post-2020, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 circulation is characterised by spatially expanded ecological suitability, changes in key environmental predictors, and a wider range of avian species affected.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Subnational tailoring of ITN distributions to maximise malaria control

    Andrew C Glover, Hannah Koenker ... Thomas S Churcher
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns

    Arnau Pujol, Arlindo Chidimatembue ... Alfredo Mayor
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Timely vaccine strain selection and genomic surveillance improve evolutionary forecast accuracy of seasonal influenza A/H3N2

    John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford
    Reducing vaccine development time from 12 months to 6 reduces forecasting error by 25%, while reducing lags in genome sequence submission reduces uncertainty of current clade frequencies by 50%.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Using step selection functions to analyse human mobility using telemetry data in infectious disease epidemiology: a case study of leptospirosis

    Pablo Ruiz Cuenca, Fábio N Souza ... Emanuele Giorgi
    Step selection functions are a useful tool for analysing fine-scale human movements to understand environmental interactions in the context of infectious disease epidemiology.

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    Indian Council of Medical Research, India
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    McGill University, Canada
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    University of Michigan, United States
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