Epidemiology and Global Health

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1. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in blood donors and COVID-19 epidemiology in eight Brazilian state capitals: A serial cross-sectional study

   Carlos A Prete Jr, Lewis Fletcher Buss ... Ester C Sabino
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Medicine

   The Ellipse of Insignificance, a refined fragility indexfor ascertaining robustness of results indichotomous outcome trials

   David Robert Grimes
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Linking rattiness, geography and environmental degradation to spillover Leptospira infections in marginalised urban settings: an eco-epidemiological community-based cohort study in Brazil

   Max T Eyre, Fábio N Souza ... Federico Costa
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Regional importation and asymmetric within-country spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the Netherlands

   Alvin X Han, Eva Kozanli ... Chantal Reusken

   Flight restrictions targeted at countries where SARS-CoV-2 variant-of-concern first emerged have limited effectiveness in deterring their introduction into the Netherlands due to the strength of regional travel importation risks in Europe.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Effectiveness of rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing in supporting infection control for hospital-onset COVID-19 infection: multicenter, prospective study

   Oliver Stirrup, James Blackstone ... Judith Breuer
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Estimation and worldwide monitoring of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2

   Jana S Huisman, Jérémie Scire ... Tanja Stadler

   A new and throughly validated method for timely estimation of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 aided in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Integrating genomic and epidemiologic data to accelerate progress toward schistosomiasis elimination

   Andrea J Lund, Kristen J Wade ... Elizabeth J Carlton

   Genomic approaches can be integrated with epidemiological and ecological studies to provide high-resolution answers to open questions about schistosomiasis transmission dynamics, offering a level of precision that is actionable, such that schistosomiasis-control programming can be tailored to regional contexts.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Integrated analyses of growth differentiation factor-15 concentration and cardiometabolic diseases in humans

   Susanna Lemmelä, Eleanor M Wigmore ... Athena Matakidou

   Elevated growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF15) levels do not appear to be a causal factor in body mass index (BMI) in humans but higher BMI does cause increases in GDF15.
9. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   The unmitigated profile of COVID-19 infectiousness

   Ron Sender, Yinon Bar-On ... Ron Milo

   In the absence of COVID-19 mitigation measures, SARS-CoV-2 remains infectious for longer than previously estimated.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Global variation in force-of-infection trends for human Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis

    Matthew A Dixon, Peter Winskill ... María-Gloria Basáñez

    Marked geographical heterogeneity in global Taenia solium transmission rates indicate the need for setting-specific intervention strategies to achieve the WHO NTD 2021-2030 roadmap milestones for T. solium.