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The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Luciano Moreira and Henrik Salje discuss a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the use of the Wolbachia bacteria to control the spread of mosquito-borne dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Read the full article:Estimating the effect of the wMel release programme on the incidence of dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://twitter.com/thelancethttps://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv
Richard Maude discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that assesses the efficacy of malaria chemoprophylaxis among forest goers in Cambodia.Read the full article:Antimalarial chemoprophylaxis for forest goers in southeast Asia
Ben Cowling discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the protection that vaccines are providing against COVID-19 in Hong Kong.Read the full article:Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Hugh Adler discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the management and the clinical features for seven patients with monkeypox hospitalised in the UK between 2018 and 2021.Read the full article:Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK
Prof Beate Kampmann, Dr Karen Keddy, and Prof Peter Ghazal discuss a new cross-journal Series in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and EBioMedicine addressing the potential for and challenge of applying big data to childhood infectious diseases in LMICs.Read the full Series:https://www.thelancet.com/series/big-data-childhood-infections-LMICs
A new article highlights how changing immunity profiles motivate the need for better responses to outbreaks of polio in Africa.
Paul Chapman and colleagues presents the results of an innovative trial assessing the safety of vaccinating healthy volunteers with attenuated Necator americanus hookworm larvae.
Josep Llibre discusses a trial on the impact of same-day testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection before a concert on new COVID-19 cases in Barcelona, Spain.
Yap Boum (MSF) discusses his study done in Cameroon, which developed a promising testing strategy for COVID-19 to optimise the available resources .
Two studies in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describe how the spread of resistance to both dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine is compromising malaria therapy in South-East Asia
A trial investigates the use of a cocktail of phages for the therapy of infections in patients with burns.
Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, John McConnell, discusses the 1918 influenza pandemic and the lessons that can be learnt from it with John Oxford and Jeffery Taubenberger.
Amir Shroufi discusses the early results assessing the safety and efficacy of the combination of bedaquiline and delamanid against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
John Beigel, an author, and Eddie Sullivan discuss a phase 1 study assessing the safety and tolerability of human antibodies manufactured in transchromosomic cows for treatment of MERS.
Valentina Cambiano discusses the cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in the UK.
Christina Wayman talks to Gillian SteelFisher about polio vaccination in Afghanistan.
Kit Fairley discusses The Lancet Infectious Diseases' new Commission on sexually transmitted infections.
In our latest Chinese-language podcast, Linjuan Li discusses the epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases in China in the decade since SARS with Lancet editor Helena Wang.
In this special Chinese language podcast, Helena Wang is joined by two authors of papers on MCR-1 to discuss their research.
Katherine Gibney discusses her paper on geographic variations and sociodemographic inequities in infectious disease notifications in Australia.
Rob Aldridge discusses the prevalence of and risk factors for tuberculosis in UK migrant.
Ana de Filippis discusses research on how Zika virus has been detected in the amniotic fluid of two pregnant women in Brazil.
Dr. Bobbi Pritt discusses a newly discovered genospecies of Lyme borreliosis.
Ramanan Laxminarayan discusses the implications of antibiotic resistance for prophylaxis.
Discussion of the effects of national antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention and control programmes on MRSA prevalence in Scotland.
Mateusz Plucinski of the CDC discusses how Ebola has affected malaria control in Guinea.
Simon Brooker discusses a study looking into the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil transmitted helminths.
Rob Aldridge discusses the evidence base for tuberculosis screening of migrants.
Arie van der Ende discusses a study looking into incidence of invasive group B streptococcal disease in newborn babies.
Dr Rodrigo Hasbun discusses research into bacterial meningitis in the US.
Herman Goossens talks to Nicolai Humphreys about new research into antibiotic use in eastern Europe.
Yonatan Grad discusses the genomic epidemiology of antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea in the USA.
Sunil Badve discusses the use of antibacterial honey for the prevention of infections related to peritoneal dialysis.
Didier Menard discusses an assay which can identify artemisinin resistance in plasmodium falciparum malaria.
Mikhail Edelstein discusses antibiotic resistance in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Cathy Ison discusses a Review about antibiotic resistance in gonorrhoea.
Heidi Larson discusses an article about the use of existing public health surveillance systems to monitor public confidence in vaccine programmes.
Marco Schito discusses key points from a new tuberculosis Series.
Daniela de Angelis discusses HIV incidence in England and Wales among men who have sex with men.
Paul Little discusses a trial to assess the value of antibiotic prescription for lower respiratory tract infection.
Mitchell Levy discusses an article about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
Gillian SteelFisher discusses the public health response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Discussion of the direct and indirect effectiveness of an oral cholera vaccine deployed in a mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar.
August issue highlights, including malaria vector control, meningitis type B vaccine, and HPV vaccination targeted at boys and young adults.
This month's Lancet Infectious Diseases podcast looks at a new mortality estimate for 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic.
Discussion of a Review about poor-quality antimalarials, and other June issue highlights.
John McConnell discusses highlights from the May issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
April highlights, including discussion of a new antibiotic for C Difficile.
March issue highlights, including a point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis.
February highlights, including discussion of HIV therapy, rotavirus, polio vaccination, and surgery for drug-resistant TB.
January issue highlights, including the launch of a series on Mass Gatherings Medicine