Acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection causes a change from frequent, sometimes life-threatening, malaria in young children to asymptomatic, chronic…
Author(s): Joice R, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID:23935910| July 2013
The growing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in major pathogens is outpacing discovery of new antimicrobial classes. Vaccines mitigate the effect…
Author(s): Katz LS, Petkau A, Beaulaurier J, Tyler S, Antonova ES, Turnsek MA, Guo Y, Wang S, Paxinos EE, Orata F, Gladney LM, Stroika S, Folster JP, Rowe L, Freeman MM, Knox N, Frace M, Boncy J, Graham M, Hammer BK, Boucher Y, Bashir A, Hanage WP, Van Domselaar G, Tarr CL|Journal: MBio|PMID:23820394| July 2013
Prior to the epidemic that emerged in Haiti in October of 2010, cholera had not been documented in this country.…
Author(s): Smith DL, Cohen JM, Chiyaka C, Johnston G, Gething PW, Gosling R, Buckee CO, Laxminarayan R, Hay SI, Tatem AJ|Journal: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci|PMID:23798693| June 2013
Malaria eradication involves eliminating malaria from every country where transmission occurs. Current theory suggests that the post-elimination challenges of remaining…
Whole-genome sequencing of 616 asymptomatically carried Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates was used to study the impact of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate…
Author(s): Hansen E, Buckee CO|Journal: Trends Parasitol|PMID:23597499| June 2013
The complex biological relationships underlying malaria transmission make it difficult to predict the impact of interventions. Mathematical models simplify these…
