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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    The age and sex dynamics of heterosexual HIV transmission in Zambia: an HPTN 071 (PopART) phylogenetic and modelling study

    Matthew D Hall, William Probert ... the PANGEA-HIV consortium and the HPTN 071 (PopART) study team
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Improving SARS-CoV-2 variants monitoring in the absence of genomic surveillance capabilities: a serological study in Bolivian blood donors in October 2021 and June 2022

    Lucia Inchauste, Elif Nurtop ... Stéphane Priet
    A pioneering Bolivian seroepidemiological study employed innovative serological and neutralization assays as highly effective complements to genomic surveillance, delivering critical insights into SARS-CoV-2 variant circulation and informing public health strategies.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    A sex-specific Mendelian randomization-phenome-wide association study of body mass index

    Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke, Io Ieong Chan ... C Mary Schooling
    Higher body mass index has a wide range of harmful health effects, which sometimes appear to be more pronounced in men, suggesting that higher BMI may be one of the factors contributing to differences in lifespan between men and women.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Assessing healthy vaccinee effect in COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies: a national cohort study in Qatar

    Hiam Chemaitelly, Houssein H Ayoub ... Laith J Abu-Raddad
    A pronounced and consistent healthy vaccinee effect has been identified in rigorously conducted vaccine effectiveness studies, specifically within the first 6 months post-vaccination and among older or clinically vulnerable individuals, likely driven by lower vaccination rates among severely ill populations.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Neuroscience

    Menopausal hormone therapy and the female brain: Leveraging neuroimaging and prescription registry data from the UK Biobank cohort

    Claudia Barth, Liisa AM Galea ... Ann-Marie G de Lange
    A big-data approach shows the effects of menopausal hormone therapy on female brain health might vary depending on the duration of use and history of gynaecological surgery.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Shining light on the dark matter of pertussis: evidence for an asymptomatic carriage state from a longitudinal cohort of mother/infant dyads

    Christian E Gunning, Christopher J Gill, Pejman Rohani
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    1. Medicine
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Five-Year Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Across Continental Africa: A Contemporary Review of Literature with Meta Analysis

    Augustina Badu-Peprah, Ernest Kissi Kontor ... Nityanand Jain
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Estimation of Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Based on Whole Genome Sequences

    Jiye Kwon, Jose Jaimes ... Virginia E Pitzer
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