Author(s): Lim C, Hansen E, DeSimone TM, Moreno Y, Junker K, Bei A, Brugnara C, Buckee CO, Duraisingh MT|Journal: Nat Commun|PMID:23535659| January 2013
The macaque malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has recently emerged as an important zoonosis in Southeast Asia. Infections are typically mild…
Author(s): Buckee CO, Wesolowski A, Eagle NN, Hansen E, Snow RW|Journal: Travel Med Infect Dis|PMID:23478045| January 2013
Human mobility plays an important role in the dissemination of malaria parasites between regions of variable transmission intensity. Asymptomatic individuals…
Author(s): Scott JR, Hinds J, Gould KA, Millar EV, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KL, Hanage WP|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID:22536000| July 2012
Pneumococci could evade pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) by modifying, mutating, or deleting vaccine-serotype capsule genes or by downregulating capsule production.…
Author(s): Ke W, Huang SS, Hudson LO, Elkins KR, Nguyen CC, Spratt BG, Murphy CR, Avery TR, Lipsitch M|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID:22431601| April 2012
Rates of hospital-acquired infections, specifically methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly being used as indicators for quality of hospital hygiene.…