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Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Published November 19, 2018 Curated Collections

The threat of emerging zoonoses to public health underscores the need to assess and share research on transmission patterns and infection dynamics openly, in real time. Modern infectious disease epidemiology thus sits at an intersection of public health, disease modeling, bench science, and policy. This Collection highlights research on these many interconnected facets of infectious disease epidemiology, including emerging zoonoses, viral genomics, infection dynamics, and disease surveillance and modeling.

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PLOS Biology Tissue tropism and transmission ecology predict virulence of human RNA viruses
November 26, 2019 Liam Brierley, Amy B. Pedersen, Mark E. J. Woolhouse

Novel infectious diseases continue to emerge within human populations. Predictive studies have begun to identify pathogen traits…
PLOS Biology Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States
February 11, 2020 Shirlee Wohl, Hayden C. Metsky, Stephen F. Schaffner, Anne Piantadosi, Meagan Burns, Joseph A. Lewnard, Bridget Chak, Lydia A. Krasilnikova, Katherine J. Siddle, Christian B. Matranga, Bettina Bankamp, Scott Hennigan, Brandon Sabina, Elizabeth H. Byrne, Rebecca J. McNall, Rickey R. Shah, James Qu, Daniel J. Park, Soheyla Gharib, Susan Fitzgerald, Paul Barreira, Stephen Fleming, Susan Lett, Paul A. Rota, Lawrence C. Madoff, Nathan L. Yozwiak, Bronwyn L. MacInnis, Sandra Smole, Yonatan H. Grad, Pardis C. Sabeti

Unusually large outbreaks of mumps across the United States in 2016 and 2017 raised questions about the extent of mumps circulation and…
PLOS Biology Pathogen transmission from vaccinated hosts can cause dose-dependent reduction in virulence
March 5, 2020 Richard I. Bailey, Hans H. Cheng, Margo Chase-Topping, Jody K. Mays, Osvaldo Anacleto, John R. Dunn, Andrea Doeschl-Wilson

Many livestock and human vaccines are leaky because they block symptoms but do not prevent infection or onward transmission. This…
PLOS Biology “Frozen evolution” of an RNA virus suggests accidental release as a potential cause of arbovirus re-emergence
April 28, 2020 David J. Pascall, Kyriaki Nomikou, Emmanuel Bréard, Stephan Zientara, Ana da Silva Filipe, Bernd Hoffmann, Maude Jacquot, Joshua B. Singer, Kris De Clercq, Anette Bøtner, Corinne Sailleau, Cyril Viarouge, Carrie Batten, Giantonella Puggioni, Ciriaco Ligios, Giovanni Savini, Piet A. van Rijn, Peter P. C. Mertens, Roman Biek, Massimo Palmarini

The mechanisms underlying virus emergence are rarely well understood, making the appearance of outbreaks largely unpredictable. Bluetongue…
PLOS Biology Real-time public health communication of local SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology
August 21, 2020 Chaney C. Kalinich, Cole G. Jensen, Peter Neugebauer, Mary E. Petrone, Mario Peña-Hernández, Isabel M. Ott, Anne L. Wyllie, Tara Alpert, Chantal B. F. Vogels, Joseph R. Fauver, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Anderson F. Brito

Genomic epidemiology can provide a unique, real-time understanding of SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns. Yet the potential for genomic…
PLOS Biology Optimising risk-based surveillance for early detection of invasive plant pathogens
October 12, 2020 Alexander J. Mastin, Timothy R. Gottwald, Frank van den Bosch, Nik J. Cunniffe, Stephen Parnell

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of plants continue to devastate ecosystems and livelihoods worldwide. Effective management requires…
PLOS Biology Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control
November 12, 2020 Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Joel C. Miller, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Hao Hu

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease,…
PLOS Biology Monitor for COVID-19 vaccine resistance evolution during clinical trials
November 9, 2020 David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read

Although less common than the evolution of antimicrobial drug resistance, vaccine resistance can and has evolved. How likely is it that…
PLOS Biology Patterns of smallpox mortality in London, England, over three centuries
December 21, 2020 Olga Krylova, David J. D. Earn

Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control…
PLOS Biology Convergent evolution of diverse Bacillus anthracis outbreak strains toward altered surface oligosaccharides that modulate anthrax pathogenesis
December 28, 2020 Michael H. Norris, Alexander Kirpich, Andrew P. Bluhm, Diansy Zincke, Ted Hadfield, Jose Miguel Ponciano, Jason K. Blackburn

Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming gram-positive bacterium, causes anthrax. The external surface of the exosporium is coated with…
PLOS ONE Web and phone-based COVID-19 syndromic surveillance in Canada: a cross-sectional study
October 5, 2020 Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Benjamin Rader, Christina Astley, Jared Hawkins, Deepit Bhatia, William Schatten, Todd Lee, Jessica Liu, Noah Ivers, Nathan Stall, Effie Gournis, Ashleigh Tuite, David Fisman, Isaac Bogoch, John Brownstein
PLOS ONE Use of social media big data as a novel HIV surveillance tool in South Africa
October 5, 2020 Alastair Van Heerden, Sean Young
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The use of serology for trachoma surveillance: Current status and priorities for future investigation
October 5, 2020 Diana L. Martin, Martha Idalí Saboyà-Díaz, Aida Abashawl, Wondu Alemayeh, Sarah Gwyn, Pamela J. Hooper, Jeremy Keenan, Khumbo Kalua, Celia Landmann Szwarcwald, Scott Nash, Catherine Oldenburg, Sheila K. West, Michael White, Anthony W. Solomon
PLOS ONE Estimating the severity of COVID-19: evidence from the Italian epicenter
October 5, 2020 Paolo Buonanno, Sergio Galletta, Marcello Puca
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Identifying the outbreak signal of COVID-19 before the response of the traditional disease monitoring system
October 5, 2020 Yaoyao Dai,Jianming Wang
PLOS ONE Scoping review of brucellosis in Cameroon: Where do we stand, and where are we going?
October 5, 2020 Christopher G. Laine, Abel Wade, H. Morgan Scott, Rosina C. Krecek, Angela M. Arenas-Gamboa
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PLOS ONE Modeling the dynamics of the COVID-19 population in Australia: A probabilistic analysis
October 5, 2020 Ali Eshragh, Saed Alizamir, Peter Howley, Elizabeth Stojanovski
PLOS ONE COVID-19 infections and outcomes in a live registry of heart failure patients across an integrated health care system
October 5, 2020 César Caraballo, Megan McCullough, Michael A. Fuery, Fouad Chouairi, Craig Keating, Neal G. Ravindra, P. Elliott Miller, Maricar Malinis, Nitu Kashyap, Allen Hsiao, F. Perry Wilson, Jeptha P. Curtis, Matthew Grant, Eric J. Velazquez, Nihar R. Desai, Tariq Ahmad
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Integration of animal health and public health surveillance sources to exhaustively inform the risk of zoonosis: An application to echinococcosis in Rio Negro, Argentina
September 7, 2020 Andrew Lawson, R Boaz III, A Corberán-Vallet, Marcos Arezo, Edmundo Larrieu, Marco Vigilato, Victor Del Rio Vilas
PLOS Computational Biology Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information
September 7, 2020 Emily L. Aiken, Sarah F. McGough, Maimuna S. Majumder, Gal Wachtel, Andre T. Nguyen, Cecile Viboud, Mauricio Santillana
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Epidemiology of dengue fever in Guatemala
September 7, 2020 Leticia del Carmen Castillo Signor, Thomas Edwards, Luis E. Escobar, Yolanda Mencos, Agnes Matope, Mariana Castaneda-Guzman, Emily R. Adams, Luis E. Cuevas
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PLOS Pathogens Genomic Surveillance of Yellow Fever Virus Epizootic in São Paulo, Brazil, 2016 – 2018
September 7, 2020 Sarah C. Hill, Renato de Souza, Julien Thézé, Ingra Claro, Renato S. Aguiar, Leandro Abade, Fabiana C. P. Santos, Mariana S. Cunha, Juliana S. Nogueira, Flavia C. S. Salles, Iray M. Rocco, Adriana Y. Maeda, Fernanda G. S. Vasami, Louis du Plessis, Paola P. Silveira, Jaqueline G. de Jesus, Joshua Quick, Natália C. C. A. Fernandes, Juliana M. Guerra, Rodrigo A. Réssio, Marta Giovanetti, Luiz C. J. Alcantara, Cinthya S. Cirqueira, Josué Díaz-Delgado, Fernando L. L. Macedo, Maria do Carmo S. T. Timenetsky, Regiane de Paula, Roberta Spinola, Juliana Telles de Deus, Luís F. Mucci, Rosa Maria Tubaki, Regiane M. T. de Menezes, Patrícia L. Ramos, Andre L. de Abreu, Laura N. Cruz, Nick Loman, Simon Dellicour, Oliver G. Pybus, Ester C. Sabino, Nuno R. Faria
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The COVID-19 pandemic should not derail global vector control efforts
September 7, 2020 Frederik Seelig, Haroldo Bezerra, Mary Cameron, Jeffrey Hii, Alexandra Hiscox, Seth Irish, Robert Jones, Trudie Lang, Steven Lindsay, Rachel Lowe, Tanaka Nyoni, Grace Power, Juliana Quintero, Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Lucy Tusting, Scott Tytheridge, James Logan
PLOS ONE Portable and accurate diagnostics for COVID-19: Combined use of the miniPCR thermocycler and a well-plate reader for SARS-CoV-2 virus detection
September 7, 2020 Everardo González-González, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago, Itzel Montserrat Lara-Mayorga, Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa, Mario Moisés Alvarez
PLOS ONE Bayesian Inference of COVID-19 Spreading Rates in South Africa
August 11, 2020 Rendani Mbuvha, Tshilidzi Marwala
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PLOS ONE Surveillance system assessment in Guinea: Training needed to strengthen data quality and analysis, 2016
August 11, 2020 Doreen Collins, Boubacar Ibrahima Diallo, Mariama Boubacar Bah, Facinet Yattara, Rachelle Goman Keleba, Pia D. M. MacDonald, Sarah Rhea
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Acute Chagas disease in Brazil from 2001 to 2018: A nationwide spatiotemporal analysis
August 11, 2020 Emily F. Santos, Ângelo A. O. Silva, Leonardo M. Leony, Natália E. M. Freitas, Ramona T. Daltro, Carlos G. Regis-Silva, Rodrigo P. Del-Rei, Wayner V. Souza, Alejandro L. Ostermayer, Veruska M. Costa, Rafaella A. Silva, Alberto N. Ramos Jr, Andrea S. Souza, Yara M. Gomes, Fred L. N. Santos
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PLOS ONE Enacting national social distancing policies corresponds with dramatic reduction in COVID19 infection rates
August 11, 2020 Daniel J. McGrail, Jianli Dai, Kathleen M. McAndrews, Raghu Kalluri
PLOS ONE Monitoring Italian COVID-19 spread by a forced SEIRD model
August 11, 2020 Elena Loli Piccolomini, Fabiana Zama
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PLOS Computational Biology Socioeconomic bias in influenza surveillance
August 11, 2020 Samuel V. Scarpino, James G. Scott, Rosalind M. Eggo, Bruce Clements, Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Lauren Ancel Meyers
PLOS ONE Change in global transmission rates of COVID-19 through May 6 2020
August 11, 2020 Ethan Obie Romero-Severson, Nick Hengartner, Grant Meadors, Ruian Ke
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PLOS ONE Information differences across spatial resolutions and scales for disease surveillance and analysis: The case of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil
August 11, 2020 Joseph L. Servadio, Gustavo Machado, Julio Alvarez, Francisco Edilson de Ferreira Lima Júnior, Renato Vieira Alves, Matteo Convertino
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PLOS ONE Forecasting seasonal influenza-like illness in South Korea after 2 and 30 weeks using Google Trends and influenza data from Argentina
August 11, 2020 Soo Beom Choi, Insung Ahn
PLOS ONE A data-driven model to describe and forecast the dynamics of COVID-19 transmission
August 11, 2020 Henrique Mohallem Paiva, Rubens Junqueira Magalhães Afonso, Igor Luppi de Oliveira, Gabriele Fernandes Garcia
PLOS ONE Modeling the role of asymptomatics in infection spread with application to SARS-CoV-2
August 11, 2020 Hana Dobrovolny
PLOS ONE Feasibility study of mitigation and suppression strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in London and Wuhan
August 6, 2020 Po Yang, Jun Qi, Shuhao Zhang, Xulong Wang, Gaoshan Bi, Yun Yang, Bin Sheng, Geng Yang
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PLOS Medicine Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government-imposed social distancing on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic: A modelling study
July 28, 2020 Alexandra Teslya, Thi Mui Pham, Noortje G. Godijk, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Martin C. J. Bootsma, Ganna Rozhnova
PLOS ONE Estimation of time-varying reproduction numbers underlying epidemiological processes: A new statistical tool for the COVID-19 pandemic
July 28, 2020 Hyokyoung G. Hong, Yi Li
PLOS Medicine Tracing and analysis of 288 early SARS-CoV-2 infections outside China: A modeling study
July 17, 2020 Francesco Pinotti, Laura Di Domenico, Ernesto Ortega, Marco Mancastroppa, Giulia Pullano, Eugenio Valdano, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Chiara Poletto, Vittoria Colizza
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PLOS ONE Modeling future spread of infections via mobile geolocation data and population dynamics. An application to COVID-19 in Brazil
July 16, 2020 Pedro S. Peixoto, Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto, Sérgio M. Oliva
PLOS Computational Biology Estimation of country-level basic reproductive ratios for novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) using synthetic contact matrices
July 3, 2020 Joe Hilton, Matt Keeling
PLOS ONE Exploring the young demographic profile of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong: Evidence from migration and travel history data
July 3, 2020 Christian Joy Pattawi Cruz, Rachel Ganly, Zilin Li, Stuart Gietel-Basten
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PLOS ONE Modeling quarantine during epidemics and mass-testing using drones
July 3, 2020 Leonid Sedov, Alexander Krasnochub, Valentin Polishchuk
PLOS ONE Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among clinic staff
July 3, 2020 Simone B. Schmidt, Ludwig Grüter, Melanie Boltzmann, Jens D. Rollnik
PLOS ONE Outbreak analysis with a logistic growth model shows COVID-19 suppression dynamics in China
July 3, 2020 Yi Zou, Stephen Pan, Peng Zhao, Lei Han, Xiaoxiang Wang, Lia Hemerik, Johannes Knops, Wopke van der Werf
PLOS ONE Estimating the prevalence and risk of COVID-19 among international travelers and evacuees of Wuhan through modeling and case reports
July 3, 2020 George Luo, Michael L. McHenry, John J. Letterio
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PLOS Medicine The potential impact of COVID-19 in refugee camps in Bangladesh and beyond: A modeling study
June 16, 2020 Shaun Truelove, Orit Abrahim, Chiara Altare, Stephen Lauer, Kyra Grantz, Andrew Azman, Paul Spiegel
PLOS ONE A novel cohort analysis approach to determining the case fatality rate of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases
June 15, 2020 Charit Samyak Narayanan
PLOS Biology Dynamical footprints enable detection of disease emergence
June 9, 2020 Tobias S. Brett, Pejman Rohani
PLOS ONE Statistical analysis of the impact of environmental temperature on the exponential growth rate of cases infected by COVID-19
June 9, 2020 George Livadiotis
PLOS Computational Biology Calibration of individual-based models to epidemiological data: A systematic review
June 9, 2020 C. Marijn Hazelbag, Jonathan Dushoff, Emanuel M. Dominic, Zinhle E. Mthombothi, Wim Delva
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A systematic review of alternative surveillance approaches for lymphatic filariasis in low prevalence settings: Implications for post-validation settings
June 9, 2020 Nicholas Riches, Xavier Badia-Rius, Themba Mzilahowa, Louise A. Kelly-Hope
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Predicting disease risk areas through co-production of spatial models: The example of Kyasanur Forest Disease in India’s forest landscapes
April 7, 2020 Bethan V. Purse, Narayanaswamy Darshan, Gudadappa S. Kasabi, France Gerard, Abhishek Samrat, Charles George, Abi T. Vanak, Meera Oommen, Mujeeb Rahman, Sarah J. Burthe, Juliette C. Young, Prashanth N. Srinivas, Stefanie M. Schäfer, Peter A. Henrys, Vijay K. Sandhya, M Mudassar Chanda, Manoj V. Murhekar, Subhash L. Hoti, Shivani K. Kiran
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PLOS ONE Forecasting the novel coronavirus COVID-19
April 6, 2020 Fotios Petropoulos, Spyros Makridakis
PLOS ONE Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak
April 6, 2020 Cleo Anastassopoulou, Lucia Russo, Athanasios Tsakris, Constantinos Siettos
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PLOS Medicine Evaluation of a clinical decision rule to guide antibiotic prescription in children with suspected lower respiratory tract infection in The Netherlands: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial
March 19, 2020 Josephine S. van de Maat, Daphne Peeters, Daan Nieboer, Anne-Marie van Wermeskerken, Frank J. Smit, Jeroen G. Noordzij, Gerdien Tramper-Stranders, Gertjan J. A. Driessen, Charlie C. Obihara, Jeanine Punt, Johan van der Lei, Suzanne Polinder, Henriette A. Moll, Rianne Oostenbrink
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PLOS Pathogens “Submergence” of Western equine encephalitis virus: Evidence of positive selection argues against genetic drift and fitness reductions
March 19, 2020 Nicholas A. Bergren, Sherry Haller, Shannan L. Rossi, Robert L. Seymour, Jing Huang, Aaron L. Miller, Richard A. Bowen, Daniel A. Hartman, Aaron C. Brault, Scott C. Weaver
PLOS ONE Development of a SimpleProbe real-Time PCR Assay for rapid detection and identification of the US novel urethrotropic clade of Neisseria meningitidis ST-11 (US_NmUC)
March 19, 2020 Evelyn Toh, James A. Williams, Brahim Qadadri, Aaron Ermel, David E. Nelson
PLOS Biology Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States
March 19, 2020 Shirlee Wohl, Hayden C. Metsky, Stephen F. Schaffner, Anne Piantadosi, Meagan Burns, Joseph A. Lewnard, Bridget Chak, Lydia A. Krasilnikova, Katherine J. Siddle, Christian B. Matranga, Bettina Bankamp, Scott Hennigan, Brandon Sabina, Elizabeth H. Byrne, Rebecca J. McNall, Rickey R. Shah, James Qu, Daniel J. Park, Soheyla Gharib, Susan Fitzgerald, Paul Barreira, Stephen Fleming, Susan Lett, Paul A. Rota, Lawrence C. Madoff, Nathan L. Yozwiak, Bronwyn L. MacInnis, Sandra Smole, Yonatan H. Grad, Pardis C. Sabeti
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Molecular xenomonitoring as a post-MDA surveillance tool for global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: Field validation in an evaluation unit in India
March 19, 2020 Swaminathan Subramanian, Kaliannagounder Krishnamoorthy, Neelavathi Sivagnaname, Candasamy Sadanandane, Venkatesan Vasuki, Chokkalingam Palaniswamy, Balakrishnan Vijayakumar, Adinarayanan Srividya, Hari Kishan K. Raju, Purushothaman Jambulingam
PLOS ONE Interdependence between confirmed and discarded cases of dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses in Brazil: A multivariate time-series analysis
March 19, 2020 Juliane F. Oliveira, Moreno S. Rodrigues, Lacita M. Skalinski, Aline E. S. Santos, Larissa C. Costa, Luciana L. Cardim, Enny S. Paixão, Maria da Conceição N. Costa, Wanderson K. Oliveira, Maurício L. Barreto, Maria Glória Teixeira, Roberto F. S. Andrade
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Post-elimination surveillance in formerly onchocerciasis endemic focus in Southern Mexico
March 19, 2020 Nadia A. Fernández-Santos, Thomas R. Unnasch, Isabel C. Rodríguez-Luna, Francisco Gibert Prado-Velasco, Adebiyi A. Adeniran, Humberto Martínez-Montoya, Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Under-detection of blood culture-positive enteric fever cases: The impact of missing data and methods for adjusting incidence estimates
February 13, 2020 Merryn Voysey, Dikshya Pant, Mila Shakya, Xinxue Liu, Rachel Colin-Jones, Katherine Theiss-Nyland, Nicola Smith, Shrijana Shrestha, Buddha Basnyat, Andrew J. Pollard, Virginia E. Pitzer
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The Galabat-Metema cross-border onchocerciasis focus: The first coordinated interruption of onchocerciasis transmission in Africa
February 6, 2020 Moses N. Katabarwa, Isam M. A. Zarroug, Nebiyu Negussu, Nabil M. Aziz, Zerihun Tadesse, Wigdan A. Elmubark, Zainab Shumo, Kadu Meribo, Hashim Kamal, Aderajew Mohammed, Yewondwossen Bitew, Tewodros Seid, Firdaweke Bekele, Abebual Yilak, Tekola Endeshaw, Mohammed Hassen, Abate Tillahun, Fikresilasie Samuel, Henok Birhanu, Tadesse Asmare, Daniel Boakye, Sindew M. Feleke, Thomas Unnasch, Rory Post, Tarig Higazi, Emily Griswold, Charles Mackenzie, Frank Richards
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance
February 3, 2020 Manoj Murhekar, Sanjay Verma, Kuldeep Singh, Ashish Bavdekar, Naveen Benakappa, Sridhar Santhanam, Gajanan Sapkal, Rajlakshmi Viswanathan, Mini P. Singh, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag, Sadanand Naik, Munivenkatappa Ashok, Asha Mary Abraham, Devika Shanmugasundaram, R. Sabarinathan, Valsan Philip Verghese, Suji George, Ravinder Kaur Sachdeva, Jyoti Kolekar, S. Manasa, Jagat Ram, Madhu Gupta, Manoj K. Rohit, Praveen Kumar, Parul Chawla Gupta, R. K. Ratho, Sanjay Kumar Munjal, Urvashi Nehra, Daisy Khera, Neeraj Gupta, Nidhi Kaushal, Pratibha Singh, Ravisekhar Gadepalli, Neelam Vaid, Sandeep Kadam, Sanjay Shah, S. Mahantesh, Vykuntaraju K. Gowda, Pradeep Haldar, M. K. Aggarwal, Nivedita Gupta
PLOS ONE Target Product Profile for a mobile app to read rapid diagnostic tests to strengthen infectious disease surveillance
January 29, 2020 Rigveda Kadam, Wallace White, Nicholas Banks, Zachary Katz, Sabine Dittrich, Cassandra Kelly-Cirino
PLOS ONE Performance of Qure.ai automatic classifiers against a large annotated database of patients with diverse forms of tuberculosis
January 24, 2020 Eric Engle, Andrei Gabrielian, Alyssa Long, Darrell E. Hurt, Alex Rosenthal
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PLOS Medicine EDITOR’S PICK: The projected impact of geographic targeting of oral cholera vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: A modeling study
January 22, 2020 Elizabeth C. Lee, Andrew S. Azman, Joshua Kaminsky, Sean M. Moore, Heather S. McKay, Justin Lessler
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PLOS ONE Spatiotemporal analysis of historical records (2001–2012) on dengue fever in Vietnam and development of a statistical model for forecasting risk
January 22, 2020 Bernard Bett, Delia Grace, Hu Suk Lee, Johanna Lindahl, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Pham-Duc Phuc, Nguyen Huu Quyen, Tran Anh Tu, Tran Dac Phu, Dang Quang Tan, Vu Sinh Nam
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PLOS Computational Biology Accuracy of real-time multi-model ensemble forecasts for seasonal influenza in the U.S.
January 22, 2020 Nicholas G. Reich, Craig J. McGowan, Teresa K. Yamana, Abhinav Tushar, Evan L. Ray, Dave Osthus, Sasikiran Kandula, Logan C. Brooks, Willow Crawford-Crudell, Graham Casey Gibson, Evan Moore, Rebecca Silva, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A. Johansson, Roni Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Shaman
PLOS ONE Local risk perception enhances epidemic control
January 22, 2020 José L. Herrera-Diestra, Lauren Ancel Meyers
PLOS Computational Biology Efficient sentinel surveillance strategies for preventing epidemics on networks
January 22, 2020 Ewan Colman, Petter Holme, Hiroki Sayama, Carlos Gershenson
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PLOS Medicine Potential gains in life expectancy by attaining daily ambient fine particulate matter pollution standards in mainland China: A modeling study based on nationwide data
January 17, 2020 Jinlei Qi, Zengliang Ruan, Zhengmin (Min) Qian, Peng Yin, Yin Yang, Bipin Kumar Acharya, Lijun Wang, Hualiang Lin
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PLOS ONE Primary care physician knowledge, attitudes, and diagnostic testing practices for norovirus and acute gastroenteritis
January 14, 2020 Cristina V. Cardemil, Sean T. O’Leary, Brenda L. Beaty, Katy Ivey, Megan C. Lindley, Allison Kempe, Lori A. Crane, Laura P. Hurley, Michaela Brtnikova, Aron J. Hall
PLOS ONE The epidemiological characteristics and spatio-temporal analysis of childhood hand, foot and mouth disease in Korea, 2011-2017
January 13, 2020 Soojin Baek, Seongwoo Park, Hye Kyung Park, Byung Chul Chun
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Development and Validation of a simple score for diagnosis of Leptospirosis at outpatient departments
January 9, 2020 Nidhikul Temeiam, Sutthi Jareinpituk, Phichayut Phinyo, Jayanton Patumanond, Nattachai Srisawat
PLOS Medicine Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis
January 9, 2020 Freya M. Shearer, Robert Moss, Jodie McVernon, Joshua V. Ross, James M. McCaw
PLOS ONE A novel model for malaria prediction based on ensemble algorithms
December 26, 2019 Mengyang Wang, Hui Wang, Jiao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Rui Lu, Tongqing Duan, Xiaowen Gong, Siyuan Feng, Yuanyuan Liu, Zhuang Cui, Changping Li, Jun Ma
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Hydroclimatic drivers of highly seasonal leptospirosis incidence suggest prominent soil reservoir of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in rural western China
December 26, 2019 Karina Cucchi, Runyou Liu, Philip A. Collender, Qu Cheng, Charles Li, Christopher M. Hoover, Howard H. Chang, Song Liang, Changhong Yang, Justin V. Remais
PLOS ONE The association between dengue incidences and provincial-level weather variables in Thailand from 2001 to 2014
December 26, 2019 Romrawin Chumpu, Nirattaya Khamsemanan, Cholwich Nattee
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Comparing vector and human surveillance strategies to detect arbovirus transmission: A simulation study for Zika virus detection in Puerto Rico
December 26, 2019 Zachary J. Madewell, Ryan R. Hemme, Laura Adams, Roberto Barrera, Stephen H. Waterman, Michael A. Johansson
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Syria: A review of available data during the war years: 2011–2018
December 12, 2019 Ghada Muhjazi, Albis Francesco Gabrielli, José Antonio Ruiz-Postigo, Hoda Atta, Mona Osman, Hyam Bashour, Atef Al Tawil, Hania Husseiny, Rasmieh Allahham, Richard Allan
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Global knowledge gaps in acute febrile illness etiologic investigations: A scoping review
December 11, 2019 Chulwoo Rhee, Grishma A. Kharod, Nicolas Schaad, Nathan W. Furukawa, Neil M. Vora, David D. Blaney, John A. Crump, Kevin R. Clarke
PLOS ONE Prediction model for dengue fever based on interactive effects between multiple meteorological factors in Guangdong, China (2008–2016)
December 9, 2019 Binghua Zhu, Ligui Wang, Haiying Wang, Zhidong Cao, Lei Zha, Ze Li, Zhongyang Ye, Jinping Zhang, Hongbin Song, Yansong Sun
PLOS ONE Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of imported dengue fever among inbound passengers: Infrared thermometer–based active surveillance at an international airport
December 5, 2019 Chia-ping Su, Ying-Yun Wang, Kuei-Chu Ku, Chi-Tai Fang
PLOS ONE A global model for predicting the arrival of imported dengue infections
December 4, 2019 Jessica Liebig, Cassie Jansen, Dean Paini, Lauren Gardner, Raja Jurdak
PLOS ONE Circulation of influenza virus from 2009 to 2018 in Cameroon: 10 years of surveillance data
December 3, 2019 Richard Njouom, Chavely Gwladys Monamele, Hermann Landry Munshili Njifon, Sebastien Kenmoe, Mohamadou Ripa Njankouo, the Network of influenza surveillance in Cameroon
PLOS ONE Forecasting type-specific seasonal influenza after 26 weeks in the United States using influenza activities in other countries
November 25, 2019 Soo Beom Choi, Juhyeon Kim, Insung Ahn
PLOS Computational Biology Forecasting dengue and influenza incidences using a sparse representation of Google trends, electronic health records, and time series data
November 21, 2019 Prashant Rangarajan, Sandeep K. Mody, Madhav Marathe
PLOS Computational Biology Seasonal influenza: Modelling approaches to capture immunity propagation
November 20, 2019 Edward M. Hill, Stavros Petrou, Simon de Lusignan, Ivelina Yonova, Matt J. Keeling
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Village-scale persistence and elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis
November 20, 2019 Christopher N. Davis, Kat S. Rock, Erick Mwamba Miaka, Matt J. Keeling
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PLOS ONE Enterovirus 71 seroepidemiology in Taiwan in 2017 and comparison of those rates in 1997, 1999 and 2007
November 20, 2019 Jian-Te Lee, Ting-Yu Yen, Wei-Liang Shih, Chun-Yi Lu, Ding-Ping Liu, Yi-Chuan Huang, Li-Min Huang, Tzou-Yien Lin, Luan-Yin Chang
PLOS ONE Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory characteristics of the measles resurgence in the Republic of Serbia in 2014-2015
November 20, 2019 Snežana Medić, Vladimir Petrović, Goranka Lončarević, Milena Kanazir, Ivana Begović Lazarević, Slavica Rakić Adrović, Maja Bančević, Claude P. Muller, Judith M. Hübschen
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A systematic review of the epidemiology of human monkeypox outbreaks and implications for outbreak strategy
November 20, 2019 Ellen M. Beer, V. Bhargavi Rao
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of transmission dynamics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by Seoul hantavirus
October 30, 2019 Yidan Li, Bernard Cazelles, Guoqing Yang, Marko Laine, Zheng X. Y. Huang, Jun Cai, Hua Tan, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Huaiyu Tian
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PLOS ONE Pathogen surveillance in the informal settlement, Kibera, Kenya, using a metagenomics approach
October 30, 2019 Rene S. Hendriksen, Oksana Lukjancenko, Patrick Munk, Mathis H. Hjelmsø, Jennifer R. Verani, Eric Ng’eno, Godfrey Bigogo, Samuel Kiplangat, Traoré Oumar, Lasse Bergmark, Timo Röder, John C. Neatherlin, Onyango Clayton, Tine Hald, Susanne Karlsmose, Sünje J. Pamp, Barry Fields, Joel M. Montgomery, Frank M. Aarestrup
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
October 30, 2019 Ari Whiteman, Michael R. Desjardins, Gilberto A. Eskildsen, Jose R. Loaiza
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A systematic review and evaluation of Zika virus forecasting and prediction research during a public health emergency of international concern
October 30, 2019 Pei-Ying Kobres, Jean-Paul Chretien, Michael A. Johansson, Jeffrey J. Morgan, Pai-Yei Whung, Harshini Mukundan, Sara Y. Del Valle, Brett M. Forshey, Talia M. Quandelacy, Matthew Biggerstaff, Cecile Viboud, Simon Pollett
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Prevalence and environmental determinants of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural communities in Tigray, northern Ethiopia
October 30, 2019 Mekonnen Yohannes, Zerihun Abebe, Eline Boelee
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PLOS ONE Geospatial modeling of microcephaly and zika virus spread patterns in Brazil
October 30, 2019 Pedro Amaral, Lucas Resende de Carvalho, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Co-developing climate services for public health: Stakeholder needs and perceptions for the prevention and control of Aedes-transmitted diseases in the Caribbean
October 28, 2019 Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra, Moory Romero, Avery Q. J. Hinds, Rachel Lowe, Roché Mahon, Cedric J. Van Meerbeeck, Leslie Rollock, Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire, Sylvester St. Ville, Sadie J. Ryan, Adrian R. Trotman, Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis and leprosy prevalence and distribution in the Muzaffarpur health and demographic surveillance site
October 25, 2019 Epco Hasker, Paritosh Malaviya, Vivek Kumar Scholar, Pieter de Koning, Om Prakash Singh, Sangeeta Kansal, Kristien Cloots, Marleen Boelaert, Shyam Sundar
PLOS ONE Integrating environmental and neighborhood factors in MaxEnt modeling to predict species distributions: A case study of Aedes albopictus in southeastern Pennsylvania
October 17, 2019 Daniel Wiese, Ananias A. Escalante, Heather Murphy, Kevin A. Henry, Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez
PLOS ONE A novel framework for evaluating the impact of individual decision-making on public health outcomes and its potential application to study antiviral treatment collection during an influenza pandemic
October 17, 2019 Sudhir Venkatesan, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, Peer-Olaf Siebers
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Trends of leprosy and multibacillary infection in the state of Georgia since the early 1900s
October 11, 2019 Carter D. McCormick, Jacqueline Lea, Barbara M. Stryjewska, Ashton Thompson, Jessica K. Fairley
PLOS Computational Biology Consensus and uncertainty in the geographic range of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the contiguous United States: Multi-model assessment and synthesis
October 10, 2019 Andrew J. Monaghan, Rebecca J. Eisen, Lars Eisen, Janet McAllister, Harry M. Savage, John-Paul Mutebi, Michael A. Johansson
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases EDITOR’S PICK – The seasonality of diarrheal pathogens: A retrospective study of seven sites over three years
October 8, 2019 Dennis L. Chao, Anna Roose, Min Roh, Karen L. Kotloff, Joshua L. Proctor
PLOS Computational Biology Long-term dynamics of measles in London: Titrating the impact of wars, the 1918 pandemic, and vaccination
October 8, 2019 Alexander D. Becker, Amy Wesolowski, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Bryan T. Grenfell
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Endemic Disease Control Agents’ perception on the fight against Aedes aegypti and the prevention of arbovirus infections in Brazil
October 4, 2019 Cíntia Pereira Donateli, Ariadne Barbosa do Nascimento Einloft, André Luiz Coutinho Junior, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta, Glauce Dias da Costa
PLOS ONE Host-feeding patterns of Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans arabiensis, a Rift Valley Fever virus vector in the Ferlo pastoral ecosystem of Senegal
October 4, 2019 Biram Biteye, Assane Gueye Fall, Momar Talla Seck, Mamadou Ciss, Mariame Diop, Geoffrey Gimonneau
PLOS ONE Integrated HIV surveillance finds recent adult hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission and intermediate HBV prevalence among military in uncharacterized Caribbean country
October 1, 2019 Siobhan M. O’Connor, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, Lilia Ganova-Raeva, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Matthew Brown, Guo-Liang Xia, Saleem Kamili, Marni Jacobs, Maxia Dong, Anne G. Thomas, Marc Bulterys, Braden Hale
PLOS ONE Major drug resistance mutations to HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PI) among patients exposed to PI class failing antiretroviral therapy in São Paulo State, Brazil
October 1, 2019 Giselle de Faria Romero Soldi, Isadora Coutinho Ribeiro, Cintia Mayumi Ahagon, Luana Portes Ozório Coelho, Gabriela Bastos Cabral, Giselle Ibette Silva López Lopes, João Leandro de Paula Ferreira, Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido, on behalf of the Salvage Therapy Working Group
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Mapping Schistosoma mansoni endemicity in Rwanda: a critical assessment of geographical disparities arising from circulating cathodic antigen versus Kato-Katz diagnostics
September 30, 2019 Nicholas J. Clark, Irenee Umulisa, Eugene Ruberanziza, Kei Owada, Daniel G. Colley, Giuseppina Ortu, Carl H. Campbell Jr, Emmanuel Ruzindana, Warren Lancaster, Jean Bosco Mbonigaba, Aimable Mbituyumuremyi, Alan Fenwick, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes, Innocent Turate
PLOS ONE In vivo clearance of nanoparticles by transcytosis across alveolar epithelial cells
September 30, 2019 Pascal Detampel, Sara Tehranian, Francis Green, Santiswarup Singha, Pere Santamaria, Ayodeji A. Jeje, Clifford S. Cho, Björn Petri, Matthias W. Amrein, Anutosh Ganguly
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The emerged genotype I of Japanese encephalitis virus shows an infectivity similar to genotype III in Culex pipiens mosquitoes from China
September 26, 2019 Muddassar Hameed, Ke Liu, Muhammad Naveed Anwar, Abdul Wahaab, Anum Safdar, Di Di, Prerona Boruah, Jinpeng Xu, Xin Wang, Beibei Li, Huaimin Zhu, Mohsin Nawaz, Donghua Shao, Yafeng Qiu, Jianchao Wei, Zhiyong Ma
PLOS ONE Forecasting the impact of population ageing on tuberculosis incidence
September 24, 2019 Chu-Chang Ku, Peter J. Dodd
PLOS ONE Antimicrobial resistance and molecular genotyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis clinical isolates from Guizhou province of Southwestern China
September 23, 2019 Xiaoyu Wei, Lv You, Dan Wang, He Huang, Shijun Li, Dingming Wang
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Chikungunya-attributable deaths: A neglected outcome of a neglected disease
September 12, 2019 Antonio S. Lima Neto, Geziel S. Sousa, Osmar J. Nascimento, Marcia C. Castro
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Integrated vector management with additional pre-transmission season thermal fogging is associated with a reduction in dengue incidence in Makassar, Indonesia: Results of an 8-year observational study
August 29, 2019 Isra Wahid, Hasanuddin Ishak, Abdul Hafid, Muhammad Fajri, Sukmawati Sidjal, Armin Nurdin, Naisyah Tun Azikin, Rusdyah Sudirman, Hajar Hasan, Muhammad Yusuf, Imam Bachtiar, William A. Hawley, Ronald Rosenberg, Neil F. Lobo
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PLOS Computational Biology Reappraising the utility of Google Flu Trends
August 29, 2019 Sasikiran Kandula, Jeffrey Shaman
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Entomological assessment of dengue virus transmission risk in three urban areas of Kenya
August 23, 2019 Sheila B. Agha, David P. Tchouassi, Michael J. Turell, Armanda D. S. Bastos, Rosemary Sang
PLOS ONE Patterns of influenza B circulation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010–2017
August 8, 2019 Rakhee Palekar, Angel Rodriguez, Cinthia Avila, Gisela Barrera, Miriam Barrera, Hebleen Brenes, Alfedo Bruno, Nathalie El Omeiri, Rodrigo Fasce, Walquiria Ferreira de Almeida, Danilo Franco, Maribel Huaringa, Jenny Lara, Roxana Loayza, Irma Lopez-Martinez, Terezinha Maria de Paiva, Jose Medina, Jenny Ojeda, Alba Maria Ropero, Viviana Sotomayor, Cynthia Vazquez, Marta Von Horoch
PLOS ONE Evaluating the effects of control interventions and estimating the inapparent infections for dengue outbreak in Hangzhou, China
August 8, 2019 Haocheng Wu, Chen Wu, Qinbao Lu, Zheyuan Ding, Ming Xue, Junfen Lin
PLOS ONE Networks of face-to-face social contacts in Niakhar, Senegal
August 6, 2019 Gail E. Potter, Jimmy Wong, Jonathan Sugimoto, Aldiouma Diallo, John C. Victor, Kathleen Neuzil, M. Elizabeth Halloran
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases An evaluation of Brazil’s surveillance and prophylaxis of canine rabies between 2008 and 2017
August 5, 2019 Julio A. Benavides, Jane Megid, Aline Campos, Silene Rocha, Marco A. N. Vigilato, Katie Hampson
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Projections of epidemic transmission and estimation of vaccination impact during an ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak in Northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as of Feb. 25, 2019
August 5, 2019 Lee Worden, Rae Wannier, Nicole A. Hoff, Kamy Musene, Bernice Selo, Mathias Mossoko, Emile Okitolonda-Wemakoy, Jean Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, George W. Rutherford, Thomas M. Lietman, Anne W. Rimoin, Travis C. Porco, J. Daniel Kelly
PLOS ONE Limited indirect effects of an infant pneumococcal vaccination program in an aging population
August 1, 2019 Mark van der Linden, Matthias Imöhl, Stephanie Perniciaro
PLOS ONE Seroprevalence of leptospirosis and Japanese encephalitis in swine in ten provinces of Vietnam
August 1, 2019 Hu Suk Lee, To Long Thanh, Nguyen Khanh Ly, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Krishna K. Thakur, Delia Grace
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Large scale detailed mapping of dengue vector breeding sites using street view images
July 29, 2019 Peter Haddawy, Poom Wettayakorn, Boonpakorn Nonthaleerak, Myat Su Yin, Anuwat Wiratsudakul, Johannes Schöning, Yongjua Laosiritaworn, Klestia Balla, Sirinut Euaungkanakul, Papichaya Quengdaeng, Kittipop Choknitipakin, Siripong Traivijitkhun, Benyarut Erawan, Thansuda Kraisang
PLOS ONE Spatial and temporal analysis of dengue infections in Queensland, Australia: Recent trend and perspectives
July 22, 2019 Rokeya Akter, Suchithra Naish, Michelle Gatton, Hilary Bambrick, Wenbiao Hu, Shilu Tong
PLOS ONE Seasonality of influenza and its association with meteorological parameters in two cities of Pakistan: A time series analysis
July 19, 2019 Nadia Nisar, Nazish Badar, Uzma Bashir Aamir, Aashifa Yaqoob, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Chinmay Laxmeshwar, Fariha Munir, Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi
PLOS ONE Circulation of chikungunya virus East/Central/South African lineage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 18, 2019 Joilson Xavier, Marta Giovanetti, Vagner Fonseca, Julien Thézé, Tiago Gräf, Allison Fabri, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Marcos Cesar Lima de Mendonça, Cintia Damasceno dos Santos Rodrigues, Maria Angélica Mares-Guia, Carolina Cardoso dos Santos, Stephane Fraga de Oliveira Tosta, Darlan Candido, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira, André Luiz de Abreu, Wanderson Kleber Oliveira, Carlos F. Campelo de Albuquerque, Alexandre Chieppe, Tulio de Oliveira, Patrícia Brasil, Guilherme Calvet, Patrícia Carvalho Sequeira, Nuno Rodrigues Faria, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Estimating undetected Ebola spillovers
July 18, 2019 Emma E. Glennon, Freya L. Jephcott, Olivier Restif, James L. N. Wood
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PLOS ONE Potential distribution of dominant malaria vector species in tropical region under climate change scenarios
July 18, 2019 Godwin E. Akpan, Kayode A. Adepoju, Olakunle R. Oladosu
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Prevalence of trachoma within refugee camps serving South Sudanese refugees in White Nile State, Sudan: Results from population-based surveys
July 18, 2019 Angelia M. Sanders, Zeinab Abdalla, Belgesa E. Elshafie, Andrew W. Nute, Elizabeth F. Long, Nabil Aziz, Paul Weiss, E. Kelly Callahan, Scott D. Nash
PLOS ONE Assessing systemic and non-systemic transmission risk of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Hungary
July 18, 2019 Kyeongah Nah, Felicia Maria G. Magpantay, Ákos Bede-Fazekas, Gergely Röst, Attila János Trájer, Xiaotian Wu, Xue Zhang, Jianhong Wu
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India
July 18, 2019 Raina K. Plowright, Daniel J. Becker, Daniel E. Crowley, Alex D. Washburne, Tao Huang, P. O. Nameer, Emily S. Gurley, Barbara A. Han
PLOS ONE Hepatitis A virus seroprevalence in South Africa – Estimates using routine laboratory data, 2005–2015
July 18, 2019 Ahmad Haeri Mazanderani, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Kerrigan McCarthy, Melinda Suchard, Nicolette Marie du Plessis
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Cholera prevention and control in refugee settings: Successes and continued challenges
July 18, 2019 Kerry Shannon, Andrew S. Azman, Dominique Legros, Heather McKay, Justin Lessler, Marisa Hast
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PLOS ONE Spatial spread of malaria and economic frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon
July 18, 2019 Patrícia Feitosa Souza, Diego Ricardo Xavier, Martha Cecilia Suarez Mutis, Jurema Corrêa da Mota, Paulo Cesar Peiter, Vanderlei Pascoal de Matos, Mônica de Avelar Figueiredo Mafra Magalhães, Christovam Barcellos
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Assessing dengue control in Tokyo, 2014
July 18, 2019 Baoyin Yuan, Hyojung Lee, Hiroshi Nishiura
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Ascertaining the burden of invasive Salmonella disease in hospitalised febrile children aged under four years in Blantyre, Malawi
July 17, 2019 Chisomo L. Msefula, Franziska Olgemoeller, Ndaru Jambo, Dalitso Segula, Trinh Van Tan, Tonney S. Nyirenda, Wilfred Nedi, Neil Kennedy, Matthew Graham, Marc Y. R. Henrion, Stephen Baker, Nicholas Feasey, Melita Gordon, Robert S. Heyderman
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Developing the first national database and map of lymphatic filariasis clinical cases in Bangladesh: Another step closer to the elimination goals
July 15, 2019 Mohammad J. Karim, Rouseli Haq, Hayley E. Mableson, A. S. M. Sultan Mahmood, Mujibur Rahman, Salim M. Chowdhury, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Israt Hafiz, Hannah Betts, Charles Mackenzie, Mark J. Taylor, Louise A. Kelly-Hope
PLOS ONE Seroprevalence of IgA and IgM antibodies to Bordetella pertussis in healthy Japanese donors: Assessment for the serological diagnosis of pertussis
July 1, 2019 Rei Fumimoto, Hajime Kamiya, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Kazunari Kamachi, Keigo Shibayama, Nao Otsuka
PLOS Medicine Estimating age-stratified influenza-associated invasive pneumococcal disease in England: A time-series model based on population surveillance data
June 27, 2019 Chiara Chiavenna, Anne M. Presanis, Andre Charlett, Simon de Lusignan, Shamez Ladhani, Richard G. Pebody, Daniela De Angelis
PLOS ONE Measuring malaria morbidity in an area of seasonal transmission: Pyrogenic parasitemia thresholds based on a 20-year follow-up study
June 27, 2019 Marion Dollat, Cheikh Talla, Cheikh Sokhna, Fatoumata Diene Sarr, Jean-François Trape, Vincent Richard
PLOS ONE Developing a dynamic HIV transmission model for 6 U.S. cities: An evidence synthesis
June 26, 2019 Emanuel Krebs, Benjamin Enns, Linwei Wang, Xiao Zang, Dimitra Panagiotoglou, Carlos Del Rio, Julia Dombrowski, Daniel J. Feaster, Matthew Golden, Reuben Granich, Brandon Marshall, Shruti H. Mehta, Lisa Metsch, Bruce R. Schackman, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Bohdan Nosyk, on behalf of the localized HIV modeling study group
PLOS ONE The President’s Malaria Initiative contributed to reducing malaria burden in sub-Saharan Africa between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from generalized estimating equation analysis
June 26, 2019 Yazoume Ye, Dwomoh Duah
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The characteristics of current natural foci of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Shandong Province, China, 2012-2015
June 26, 2019 Zhaolei Zheng, Peizhu Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Dandan Zhang, Xu Wang, Shuqing Zuo, Xiujun Li
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Preexisting chronic conditions for fatal outcome among SFTS patients: An observational Cohort Study
June 26, 2019 Shao-Fei Zhang, Zhen-Dong Yang, Mao-Lin Huang, Zhi-Bo Wang, Yuan-Yuan Hu, Dong Miao, Ke Dai, Juan Du, Ning Cui, Chun Yuan, Hao Li, Xiao-Kun Li, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Pan-He Zhang, Xian-Miao Mi, Wei Liu, Qing-Bin Lu
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PLOS ONE Linking human behaviours and malaria vector biting risk in south-eastern Tanzania
June 26, 2019 Marceline F. Finda, Irene R. Moshi, April Monroe, Alex J. Limwagu, Anna P. Nyoni, Johnson K. Swai, Halfan S. Ngowo, Elihaika G. Minja, Lea P. Toe, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa, Maureen Coetzee, Lenore Manderson, Fredros O. Okumu
PLOS ONE Phylogeographic evidence for the inter- and intracontinental dissemination of avian influenza viruses via migration flyways
June 26, 2019 Junki Mine, Yuko Uchida, Kirill Sharshov, Ivan Sobolev, Alexander Shestopalov, Takehiko Saito
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases El Niño Southern Oscillation, overseas arrivals and imported chikungunya cases in Australia: A time series analysis
June 26, 2019 Xiaodong Huang, Wenbiao Hu, Laith Yakob, Gregor J. Devine, Elizabeth A. McGraw, Cassie C. Jansen, Helen M. Faddy, Francesca D. Frentiu
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Potential animal reservoirs (dogs and bats) of human visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum in French Guiana
June 19, 2019 Hacène Medkour, Bernard Davoust, François Dulieu, Laurent Maurizi, Thierry Lamour, Jean-Lou Marié, Oleg Mediannikov
PLOS ONE Human response to live plague vaccine EV, Almaty region, Kazakhstan, 2014-2015
June 14, 2019 Zaurbek Sagiyev, Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev
PLOS ONE An exploratory study of factors associated with human brucellosis in mainland China based on time-series-cross-section data from 2005 to 2016
June 14, 2019 Yun Lin, Minghan Xu, Xingyu Zhang, Tao Zhang
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Towards harmonisation of entomological surveillance in the Mediterranean area
June 13, 2019 Frédéric Jourdain, Abdallah M. Samy, Afrim Hamidi, Ali Bouattour, Bülent Alten, Chafika Faraj, David Roiz, Dušan Petrić, Elisa Pérez-Ramírez, Enkeledja Velo, Filiz Günay, Golubinka Bosevska, Ibrahim Salem, Igor Pajovic, Jelena Marić, Khalil Kanani, Lusine Paronyan, Maria-Grazia Dente, Marie Picard, Marija Zgomba, M'hammed Sarih, Nabil Haddad, Oleksandr Gaidash, Roena Sukhiasvili, Silvia Declich, Taher Shaibi, Tatiana Sulesco, Zoubir Harrat, Vincent Robert
PLOS ONE Characterizing herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 seroprevalence declines and epidemiological association in the United States
June 6, 2019 Hiam Chemaitelly, Nico Nagelkerke, Ryosuke Omori, Laith J. Abu-Raddad
PLOS ONE Underreporting of Hepatitis B and C virus infections — Pennsylvania, 2001–2015
June 6, 2019 Henry Roberts, Sameh W. Boktor, Kirsten Waller, Zahra S. Daar, Joseph A. Boscarino, Perry H. Dubin, Anil Suryaprasad, Anne C. Moorman
PLOS ONE Comparison of spatiotemporal patterns of historic natural Anthrax outbreaks in Minnesota and Kazakhstan
June 5, 2019 Kaushi S. T. Kanankege, Sarsenbay K. Abdrakhmanov, Julio Alvarez, Linda Glaser, Jeffrey B. Bender, Yersyn Y. Mukhanbetkaliyev, Fedor I. Korennoy, Ablaikhan S. Kadyrov, Aruzhan S. Abdrakhmanova, Andres M. Perez
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Unbiased assessment of disease surveillance utilities: A prospect theory application
June 5, 2019 Arthur E. Attema, Lisheng He, Alasdair J. C. Cook, Victor J. Del Rio Vilas
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PLOS ONE Predicting aquatic development and mortality rates of Aedes aegypti
June 5, 2019 Josef Zapletal, Himanshu Gupta, Madhav Erraguntla, Zach N. Adelman, Kevin M. Myles, Mark A. Lawley
PLOS Computational Biology The statistics of epidemic transitions
May 8, 2019 John M. Drake, Tobias S. Brett, Shiyang Chen, Bogdan I. Epureanu, Matthew J. Ferrari, Éric Marty, Paige B. Miller, Eamon B. O’Dea, Suzanne M. O’Regan, Andrew W. Park, Pejman Rohani
PLOS Medicine Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study
July 17, 2018 Rachel Lowe, Antonio Gasparrini, Cédric J. Van Meerbeeck, Catherine A. Lippi, Roché Mahon, Adrian R. Trotman, Leslie Rollock, Avery Q. J. Hinds, Sadie J. Ryan, Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Identifying residual transmission of lymphatic filariasis after mass drug administration: Comparing school-based versus community-based surveillance – American Samoa, 2016
July 16, 2018 Meru Sheel, Sarah Sheridan, Katherine Gass, Kimberly Won, Saipale Fuimaono, Martyn Kirk, Amor Gonzales, Shannon M. Hedtke, Patricia M. Graves, Colleen L. Lau
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Dengue infection in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis
July 16, 2018 Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Manoj V. Murhekar, Veeraraghavadoss Poornima, Velusamy Saravanakumar, Krishnendu Sukumaran, Anandan Anandaselvasankar, Denny John, Sanjay M. Mehendale
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PLOS ONE A Web Geographic Information System to share data and explorative analysis tools: The application to West Nile disease in the Mediterranean basin
June 27, 2018 Lara Savini, Susanna Tora, Alessio Di Lorenzo, Daniela Cioci, Federica Monaco, Andrea Polci, Massimiliano Orsini, Paolo Calistri, Annamaria Conte
PLOS ONE An Eigenspace approach for detecting multiple space-time disease clusters: Application to measles hotspots detection in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
June 19, 2018 Sami Ullah, Hanita Daud, Sarat C. Dass, Hadi Fanaee-T, Alamgir Khalil
PLOS Computational Biology Nonmechanistic forecasts of seasonal influenza with iterative one-week-ahead distributions
June 15, 2018 Logan C. Brooks, David C. Farrow, Sangwon Hyun, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Roni Rosenfeld
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A real-time medical cartography of epidemic disease (Nodding syndrome) using village-based lay mHealth reporters
June 15, 2018 Raquel Valdes Angues, Austen Suits, Valerie S. Palmer, Caesar Okot, Robert A. Okot, Concy Atonywalo, Suzanne K. Gazda, David L. Kitara, Moka Lantum, Peter S. Spencer
PLOS ONE Timeliness of notification systems for infectious diseases: A systematic literature review
June 14, 2018 Corien Swaan, Anouk van den Broek, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Jan Hendrik Richardus
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PLOS ONE Enhanced surveillance during a public health emergency in a resource-limited setting: Experience from a large dengue outbreak in Solomon Islands, 2016-17
June 7, 2018 Adam T. Craig, Cynthia A. Joshua, Alison R. Sio, Bobby Teobasi, Alfred Dofai, Tenneth Dalipanda, Kate Hardie, John Kaldor, Anthony Kolbe
PLOS ONE Investigation of laboratory confirmed Dengue outbreak in North-eastern Kenya, 2011
June 7, 2018 Mark Obonyo, Ahmed Fidhow, Victor Ofula
PLOS ONE Elimination or more accurate estimation? Investigation of trends in malaria diagnoses in the Ouest Department of Haiti from 2008 to 2017
June 7, 2018 Thomas A. Weppelmann, Caroline J. Stephenson, Elisha Musih, John B. Dame, Marie Y. Remy, Robert Nicolas, Michael E. von Fricken
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Chikungunya outbreak (2017) in Bangladesh: Clinical profile, economic impact and quality of life during the acute phase of the disease
June 6, 2018 Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Md. Mahbub Hasan, Muhammad Sougatul Islam, Salequl Islam, Miliva Mozaffor, Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan, Nova Ahmed, Waheed Akhtar, Shahanaz Chowdhury, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Md. Abdul Khaleque, Zohora Jameela Khan, Tashmim Farhana Dipta, Shah Md. Zahurul Haque Asna, Md. Akram Hossain, KM Sultanul Aziz, Abdullah Al Mosabbir, Enayetur Raheem
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Improving spatial prediction of Schistosoma haematobium prevalence in southern Ghana through new remote sensors and local water access profiles
June 4, 2018 Alexandra V. Kulinkina, Yvonne Walz, Magaly Koch, Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, Jürg Utzinger, Elena N. Naumova
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Molecular characterization of Vibrio cholerae responsible for cholera epidemics in Uganda by PCR, MLVA and WGS
June 4, 2018 Godfrey Bwire, David A. Sack, Mathieu Almeida, Shan Li, Joseph B. Voeglein, Amanda Kay Debes, Atek Kagirita, Ambrose Wabwire Buyinza, Christopher Garimoi Orach, O. Colin Stine
PLOS ONE Assessment of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), generalized linear autoregressive moving average (GLARMA), and random forest (RF) time series regression models for predicting influenza A virus frequency in swine in Ontario, Canada
June 1, 2018 Tatiana Petukhova, Davor Ojkic, Beverly McEwen, Rob Deardon, Zvonimir Poljak
PLOS ONE Feasibility of Electronic Health Information and Surveillance System (eHISS) for disease symptom monitoring: A case of rural Ghana
May 24, 2018 Aliyu Mohammed, Konstantin Franke, Portia Boakye Okyere, Johanna Brinkel, Axel Bonačić Marinovic, Benno Kreuels, Ralf Krumkamp, Julius Fobil, Jürgen May, Ellis Owusu-Dabo
PLOS ONE A method for age-matched OCT angiography deviation mapping in the assessment of disease- related changes to the radial peripapillary capillaries
May 24, 2018 Alexander Pinhas, Rachel Linderman, Shelley Mo, Brian D. Krawitz, Lawrence S. Geyman, Joseph Carroll, Richard B. Rosen, Toco Y. Chui
PLOS ONE Burden of bacterial meningitis in India: Preliminary data from a hospital based sentinel surveillance network
May 16, 2018 Yuvaraj Jayaraman, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman, Bharathy Sukumar, Boopathi Kangusamy, Ambujam Nair Kapoor, Nivedita Gupta, Sanjay Madhav Mehendale, Hospital Based Sentinel Surveillance of Bacterial Meningitis (HBSSBM) Network Team
PLOS ONE Early warning and response system (EWARS) for dengue outbreaks: Recent advancements towards widespread applications in critical settings
May 4, 2018 Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Axel Kroeger, Piero Olliaro, Joacim Rocklöv, Maquins Odhiambo Sewe, Gustavo Tejeda, David Benitez, Balvinder Gill, S. Lokman Hakim, Roberta Gomes Carvalho, Leigh Bowman, Max Petzold
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PLOS ONE Under-reporting of pertussis in Ontario: A Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study using capture-recapture
May 2, 2018 Natasha S. Crowcroft, Caitlin Johnson, Cynthia Chen, Ye Li, Alex Marchand-Austin, Shelly Bolotin, Kevin Schwartz, Shelley L. Deeks, Frances Jamieson, Steven Drews, Margaret L. Russell, Lawrence W. Svenson, Kimberley Simmonds, Salaheddin M. Mahmud, Jeffrey C. Kwong
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Enhanced surveillance for Rift Valley Fever in livestock during El Niño rains and threat of RVF outbreak, Kenya, 2015-2016
April 26, 2018 Harry Oyas, Lindsey Holmstrom, Naomi P. Kemunto, Matthew Muturi, Athman Mwatondo, Eric Osoro, Austine Bitek, Bernard Bett, Jane W. Githinji, Samuel M. Thumbi, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Peninah M. Munyua, M. Kariuki Njenga
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika virus infection and microcephaly: Evidence regarding geospatial associations
April 25, 2018 João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, Pedro Vasconcelos Maia Amaral, Adriana Lein, Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco, José Aquino Junior, Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Catherine Staton
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Data quality and timeliness of outbreak reporting system among countries in Greater Mekong subregion: Challenges for international data sharing
April 25, 2018 Saranath Lawpoolsri, Jaranit Kaewkungwal, Amnat Khamsiriwatchara, Ly Sovann, Bun Sreng, Bounlay Phommasack, Viengsavanh Kitthiphong, Soe Lwin Nyein, Nyan Win Myint, Nguyen Dang Vung, Pham Hung, Mark S. Smolinski, Adam W. Crawley, Moe Ko Oo
PLOS ONE Estimated hepatitis C prevalence and key population sizes in San Francisco: A foundation for elimination
April 11, 2018 Shelley N. Facente, Eduard Grebe, Katie Burk, Meghan D. Morris, Edward L. Murphy, Ali Mirzazadeh, Aaron A. Smith, Melissa A. Sanchez, Jennifer L. Evans, Amy Nishimura, Henry F. Raymond, on behalf of End Hep C SF
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PLOS ONE Methodology and results of integrated WNV surveillance programmes in Serbia
April 6, 2018 Tamaš Petrović, Milanko Šekler, Dušan Petrić, Sava Lazić, Zoran Debeljak, Dejan Vidanović, Aleksandra Ignjatović Ćupina, Gospava Lazić, Diana Lupulović, Mišo Kolarević, Budimir Plavšić
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PLOS Computational Biology Need for speed: An optimized gridding approach for spatially explicit disease simulations
April 6, 2018 Stefan Sellman, Kimberly Tsao, Michael J. Tildesley, Peter Brommesson, Colleen T. Webb, Uno Wennergren, Matt J. Keeling, Tom Lindström
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Geospatial-temporal distribution of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Colombia (2007–2016)
April 6, 2018 Giovanny Herrera, Aníbal Teherán, Iván Pradilla, Mauricio Vera, Juan David Ramírez
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PLOS ONE Dengue forecasting in São Paulo city with generalized additive models, artificial neural networks and seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models
April 2, 2018 Oswaldo Santos Baquero, Lidia Maria Reis Santana, Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto
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PLOS ONE The incidence of medically-attended norovirus gastro-enteritis in Japan: Modelling using a medical care insurance claims database
March 30, 2018 Chia-Hsien Chang, Motonobu Sakaguchi, John Weil, Thomas Verstraeten
PLOS ONE Increased carriage of non-vaccine serotypes with low invasive disease potential four years after switching to the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in The Netherlands
March 30, 2018 Marloes Vissers, Alienke J. Wijmenga-Monsuur, Mirjam J. Knol, Paul Badoux, Marlies A. van Houten, Arie van der Ende, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, Nynke Y. Rots
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PLOS ONE Influenza virus: 16 years’ experience of clinical epidemiologic patterns and associated infection factors in hospitalized children in Argentina
March 29, 2018 Angela Gentile, Maria Florencia Lucion, Maria del Valle Juarez, Ana Clara Martinez, Viviana Romanin, Julia Bakir, Mariana Viegas, Alicia Mistchenko
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa
March 21, 2018 Joseph R. Fauver, James Weger-Lucarelli, Lawrence S. Fakoli III, Kpehe Bolay, Fatorma K. Bolay, Joseph W. Diclaro II, Doug E. Brackney, Brian D. Foy, Mark D. Stenglein, Gregory D. Ebel
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Rabies in the Americas: 1998-2014
March 20, 2018 Mary Freire de Carvalho, Marco A. N. Vigilato, Julio A. Pompei, Felipe Rocha, Alexandra Vokaty, Baldomero Molina Flores, Ottorino Cosivi, Victor J. Del Rio Vilas
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Andy Ballard

PLOS ONE Perceptions and acceptability of some stakeholders about the bovine tuberculosis surveillance system for wildlife (Sylvatub) in France
March 15, 2018 Julie Rivière, Yann Le Strat, Pascal Hendrikx, Barbara Dufour
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The seasonal influence of climate and environment on yellow fever transmission across Africa
March 15, 2018 Arran Hamlet, Kévin Jean, William Perea, Sergio Yactayo, Joseph Biey, Maria Van Kerkhove, Neil Ferguson, Tini Garske
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Spatio-temporal coherence of dengue, chikungunya and Zika outbreaks in Merida, Mexico
March 15, 2018 Donal Bisanzio, Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla, Hector Gomez-Dantés, Norma Pavia-Ruz, Thomas J. Hladish, Audrey Lenhart, Jorge Palacio-Vargas, Jesus F. González Roldan, Fabian Correa-Morales, Gustavo Sánchez-Tejeda, Pablo Kuri Morales, Pablo Manrique-Saide, Ira M. Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec
PLOS Computational Biology Deploying digital health data to optimize influenza surveillance at national and local scales
March 7, 2018 Elizabeth C. Lee, Ali Arab, Sandra M. Goldlust, Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, Shweta Bansal
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PLOS ONE Real-time predictive seasonal influenza model in Catalonia, Spain
March 7, 2018 Luca Basile, Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente, Nuria Torner, Ana Martínez, Mireia Jané
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Changing demographics of visceral leishmaniasis in northeast Brazil: Lessons for the future
March 6, 2018 Iraci Duarte Lima, Adila L. M. Lima, Carolina de Oliveira Mendes-Aguiar, José F. V. Coutinho, Mary E. Wilson, Richard D. Pearson, José Wilton Queiroz, Selma M. B. Jeronimo
PLOS ONE Global influenza seasonality to inform country-level vaccine programs: An analysis of WHO FluNet influenza surveillance data between 2011 and 2016
February 21, 2018 Laura P. Newman, Niranjan Bhat, Jessica A. Fleming, Kathleen M. Neuzil
PLOS Computational Biology Prediction of infectious disease epidemics via weighted density ensembles
February 20, 2018 Evan L. Ray, Nicholas G. Reich
PLOS ONE Occurrence of measles in a country with elimination status: Amplifying measles infection in hospitalized children due to imported virus
February 15, 2018 HyeEun Eom, YoungJoon Park, JooWhee Kim, Jeong-Sun Yang, HaeJi Kang, Kisoon Kim, Byung Chul Chun, Ok Park, Jeong Ik Hong
PLOS ONE Comparison between influenza coded primary care consultations and national influenza incidence obtained by the General Practitioners Sentinel Network in Portugal from 2012 to 2017
February 13, 2018 Rosália Páscoa, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Susana Silva, Baltazar Nunes, Carlos Martins
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Improved tools and strategies for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: A research-to-policy forum
February 1, 2018 Piero Olliaro, Florence Fouque, Axel Kroeger, Leigh Bowman, Raman Velayudhan, Ana Carolina Santelli, Diego Garcia, Ronald Skewes Ramm, Lokman H. Sulaiman, Gustavo Sanchez Tejeda, Fabiàn Correa Morales, Ernesto Gozzer, César Basso Garrido, Luong Chan Quang, Gamaliel Gutierrez, Zaida E. Yadon, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger
PLOS ONE Can long-term historical data from electronic medical records improve surveillance for epidemics of acute respiratory infections? A systematic evaluation
January 31, 2018 Hongzhang Zheng, William H. Woodall, Abigail L. Carlson, Sylvain DeLisle
PLOS ONE Invasive bacterial disease trends and characterization of group B streptococcal isolates among young infants in southern Mozambique, 2001–2015
January 19, 2018 Betuel Sigaúque, Miwako Kobayashi, Delfino Vubil, Ariel Nhacolo, Alberto Chaúque, Benild Moaine, Sérgio Massora, Inácio Mandomando, Tacilta Nhampossa, Quique Bassat, Fabiana Pimenta, Clara Menéndez, Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Eusebio Macete, Stephanie J. Schrag
PLOS ONE Event based surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS- CoV) in Bangladesh among pilgrims and travelers from the Middle East: An update for the period 2013–2016
January 16, 2018 A. K. M. Muraduzzaman, Manjur Hossain Khan, Rezina Parveen, Sharmin Sultana, Ahmed Nawsher Alam, Arifa Akram, Mahmudur Rahman, Tahmina Shirin
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PLOS Pathogens Continental synchronicity of human influenza virus epidemics despite climactic variation
January 11, 2018 Jemma L. Geoghegan, Aldo F. Saavedra, Sebastián Duchêne, Sheena Sullivan, Ian Barr, Edward C. Holmes
PLOS ONE Local chatter or international buzz? Language differences on posts about Zika research on Twitter and Facebook
January 5, 2018 Germana Barata, Kenneth Shores, Juan Pablo Alperin
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Establishing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) diagnostics using GeneXpert technology at a mobile laboratory in Liberia: Impact on outbreak response, case management and laboratory systems strengthening
January 5, 2018 Philomena Raftery, Orla Condell, Christine Wasunna, Jonathan Kpaka, Ruth Zwizwai, Mahmood Nuha, Mosoka Fallah, Maxwell Freeman, Victoria Harris, Mark Miller, April Baller, Moses Massaquoi, Victoria Katawera, John Saindon, Philip Bemah, Esther Hamblion, Evelyn Castle, Desmond Williams, Alex Gasasira, Tolbert Nyenswah
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Madagascar can build stronger health systems to fight plague and prevent the next epidemic
January 4, 2018 Matthew H. Bonds, Mohammed A. Ouenzar, Andres Garchitorena, Laura F. Cordier, Meg G. McCarty, Michael L. Rich, Benjamin Andriamihaja, Justin Haruna, Paul E. Farmer
PLOS Computational Biology Ten simple rules for biologists learning to program
January 4, 2018 Maureen A. Carey, Jason A. Papin
PLOS ONE Improving mapping for Ebola response through mobilising a local community with self-owned smartphones: Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, January 2015
January 3, 2018 Laura M. Nic Lochlainn, Ivan Gayton, Georgios Theocharopoulos, Robin Edwards, Kostas Danis, Ronald Kremer, Karline Kleijer, Sumaila M. Tejan, Mohamed Sankoh, Augustin Jimissa, Jane Greig, Grazia Caleo
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PLOS ONE Ensemble method for dengue prediction
January 3, 2018 Anna L. Buczak, Benjamin Baugher, Linda J. Moniz, Thomas Bagley, Steven M. Babin, Erhan Guven
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Identifying cholera “hotspots” in Uganda: An analysis of cholera surveillance data from 2011 to 2016
December 28, 2017 Godfrey Bwire, David A. Sack, Anne Nakinsige, Martha Naigaga, Amanda K. Debes, Moise C. Ngwa, W. Abdullah Brooks, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Mohammad Ali
PLOS Pathogens Genome-wide evolutionary dynamics of influenza B viruses on a global scale
December 28, 2017 Pinky Langat, Jayna Raghwani, Gytis Dudas, Thomas A. Bowden, Stephanie Edwards, Astrid Gall, Trevor Bedford, Andrew Rambaut, Rodney Daniels, Colin Russell, Oliver G. Pybus, John McCauley, Simon J. Watson, Paul Kellam
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PLOS Medicine Re-emerging and newly recognized sexually transmitted infections: Can prior experiences shed light on future identification and control?
December 27, 2017 Kyle Bernstein, Virginia B. Bowen, Caron R. Kim, Michel J. Counotte, Robert D. Kirkcaldy, Edna Kara, Gail Bolan, Nicola Low, Nathalie Broutet
PLOS ONE Impact of increased influenza vaccination in 2–3-year-old children on disease burden within the general population: A Bayesian model-based approach
December 15, 2017 Sankarasubramanian Rajaram, Witold Wiecek, Richard Lawson, Betina T. Blak, Yanli Zhao, Judith Hackett, Robert Brody, Vishal Patel, Billy Amzal
PLOS Computational Biology MAGPIE: Simplifying access and execution of computational models in the life sciences
December 15, 2017 Christoph Baldow, Sebastian Salentin, Michael Schroeder, Ingo Roeder, Ingmar Glauche
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PLOS ONE Forecasting influenza-like illness dynamics for military populations using neural networks and social media
December 15, 2017 Svitlana Volkova, Ellyn Ayton, Katherine Porterfield, Courtney D. Corley
PLOS ONE Time trend analysis (2009-2016) of antimicrobial susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Italy following the introduction of the combined antimicrobial therapy
December 14, 2017 Paola Stefanelli, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Maria Paola Landini, Ivano Dal Conte, Alberto Matteelli, Antonio Cristaudo, Marina Gaino, Marco Cusini, Anna Maria Barbui, Antonella Mencacci, Rosella De Nittis, Valeria Ghisetti, Elena Stroppiana, Anna Carannante, for The Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobials resistant Study Group
PLOS Medicine Estimating the impact of antiretroviral treatment on adult mortality trends in South Africa: A mathematical modelling study
December 12, 2017 Leigh F. Johnson, Margaret T. May, Rob E. Dorrington, Morna Cornell, Andrew Boulle, Matthias Egger, Mary-Ann Davies
PLOS ONE Climate change influences on the potential geographic distribution of the disease vector tick Ixodes ricinus
December 5, 2017 Abdelghafar A. Alkishe, A. Townsend Peterson, Abdallah M. Samy
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Internet-based biosurveillance methods for vector-borne diseases: Are they novel public health tools or just novelties?
November 30, 2017 Simon Pollett, Benjamin M. Althouse, Brett Forshey, George W. Rutherford, Richard G. Jarman
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PLOS Medicine malERA: An updated research agenda for combination interventions and modelling in malaria elimination and eradication
November 30, 2017 The malERA Refresh Consultative Panel on Combination Interventions and Modelling
PLOS ONE Predictors of seasonal influenza vaccination among older adults in Thailand
November 29, 2017 Prabda Praphasiri, Darunee Ditsungnoen, Supakit Sirilak, Jarawee Rattanayot, Peera Areerat, Fatimah S. Dawood, Kim A. Lindblade
PLOS ONE Economics of One Health: Costs and benefits of integrated West Nile virus surveillance in Emilia-Romagna
November 27, 2017 Giulia Paternoster, Sara Babo Martins, Andrea Mattivi, Roberto Cagarelli, Paola Angelini, Romeo Bellini, Annalisa Santi, Giorgio Galletti, Simonetta Pupella, Giuseppe Marano, Francesco Copello, Jonathan Rushton, Katharina D. C. Stärk, Marco Tamba
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PLOS Medicine The US President’s Malaria Initiative, Plasmodium falciparum transmission and mortality: A modelling study
November 21, 2017 Peter Winskill, Hannah C. Slater, Jamie T. Griffin, Azra C. Ghani, Patrick G. T. Walker
PLOS Computational Biology The use of ambient humidity conditions to improve influenza forecast
November 16, 2017 Jeffrey Shaman, Sasikiran Kandula, Wan Yang, Alicia Karspeck
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PLOS Computational Biology Individual versus superensemble forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks in the United States
November 6, 2017 Teresa K. Yamana, Sasikiran Kandula, Jeffrey Shaman
PLOS ONE Exploring differences in healthcare utilization of prisoners in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
October 30, 2017 Karine Moschetti, Véra Zabrodina, Pierre Stadelmann, Tenzin Wangmo, Alberto Holly, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Bernice S. Elger, Bruno Gravier
PLOS Computational Biology A mechanistic spatio-temporal framework for modelling individual-to-individual transmission—With an application to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak
October 30, 2017 Max S. Y. Lau, Gavin J. Gibson, Hola Adrakey, Amanda McClelland, Steven Riley, Jon Zelner, George Streftaris, Sebastian Funk, Jessica Metcalf, Benjamin D. Dalziel, Bryan T. Grenfell
PLOS Pathogens Pivotal role for the ESCRT-II complex subunit EAP30/SNF8 in IRF3-dependent innate antiviral defense
October 30, 2017 Kattareeya Kumthip, Darong Yang, Nan L. Li, Yunzhi Zhang, Meiyun Fan, Aarti Sethuraman, Kui Li
PLOS ONE Genomic regions associated with susceptibility to Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma in African Americans: The cross BETRNet admixture study
October 26, 2017 Xiangqing Sun, Apoorva K. Chandar, Marcia I. Canto, Prashanthi N. Thota, Malcom Brock, Nicholas J. Shaheen, David G. Beer, Jean S. Wang, Gary W. Falk, Prasad G. Iyer, Julian A. Abrams, Medha Venkat-Ramani, Martina Veigl, Alexander Miron, Joseph Willis, Deepa T. Patil, Ilke Nalbantoglu, Kishore Guda, Sanford D. Markowitz, Xiaofeng Zhu, Robert Elston, Amitabh Chak
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PLOS Computational Biology Seasonality in risk of pandemic influenza emergence
October 19, 2017 Spencer J. Fox, Joel C. Miller, Lauren Ancel Meyers
PLOS Pathogens Supraphysiologic control over HIV-1 replication mediated by CD8 T cells expressing a re-engineered CD4-based chimeric antigen receptor
October 12, 2017 Rachel S. Leibman, Max W. Richardson, Christoph T. Ellebrecht, Colby R. Maldini, Joshua A. Glover, Anthony J. Secreto, Irina Kulikovskaya, Simon F. Lacey, Sarah R. Akkina, Yanjie Yi, Farida Shaheen, Jianbin Wang, Keith A. Dufendach, Michael C. Holmes, Ronald G. Collman, Aimee S. Payne, James L. Riley
PLOS ONE The EASI model: A first integrative computational approximation to the natural history of COPD
October 10, 2017 Alvar Agustí, Albert Compte, Rosa Faner, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Guillaume Noell, Borja G. Cosio, Robert Rodriguez-Roisin, Bartolomé Celli, Josep Maria Anto
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Epidemiological consequences of immune sensitisation by pre-exposure to vector saliva
October 9, 2017 Tsukushi Kamiya, Megan A. Greischar, Nicole Mideo
PLOS ONE A recombinant O-polysaccharide-protein conjugate approach to develop highly specific monoclonal antibodies to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 and O145 serogroups
October 5, 2017 Daniela S. Castillo, Diego A. Rey Serantes, Luciano J. Melli, Andrés E. Ciocchini, Juan E. Ugalde, Diego J. Comerci, Alejandro Cassola
PLOS Genetics Genetic epidemiology and Mendelian randomization for informing disease therapeutics: Conceptual and methodological challenges
October 5, 2017 Lavinia Paternoster, Kate Tilling, George Davey Smith
PLOS ONE Zika beyond the Americas: Travelers as sentinels of Zika virus transmission. A GeoSentinel analysis, 2012 to 2016.
October 3, 2017 Karin Leder, Martin P. Grobusch, Philippe Gautret, Lin H. Chen, Susan Kuhn, Poh Lian Lim, Johnnie Yates, Anne E. McCarthy, Camilla Rothe, Yasuyuki Kato, Emmanuel Bottieau, Kristina Huber, Eli Schwartz, William Stauffer, Denis Malvy, Marc T. M. Shaw, Christophe Rapp, Lucille Blumberg, Mogens Jensenius, Perry J. J. van Genderen, Davidson H. Hamer, for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network
PLOS ONE Changes in the cellular microRNA profile by the intracellular expression of HIV-1 Tat regulator: A potential mechanism for resistance to apoptosis and impaired proliferation in HIV-1 infected CD4+ T cells
October 2, 2017 María Sánchez-Del Cojo, María Rosa López-Huertas, Francisco Díez-Fuertes, Sara Rodríguez-Mora, Mercedes Bermejo, Guillermo López-Campos, Elena Mateos, Laura Jiménez-Tormo, Francisco Gómez-Esquer, Gema Díaz-Gil, José Alcamí, Mayte Coiras
PLOS ONE Short-term leprosy forecasting from an expert opinion survey
August 16, 2017 Michael S. Deiner, Lee Worden, Alex Rittel, Sarah F. Ackley, Fengchen Liu, Laura Blum, James C. Scott, Thomas M. Lietman, Travis C. Porco
PLOS ONE Forecasting influenza in Hong Kong with Google search queries and statistical model fusion
May 2, 2017 Qinneng Xu, Yulia R. Gel, L. Leticia Ramirez Ramirez, Kusha Nezafati, Qingpeng Zhang, Kwok-Leung Tsui
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data
January 13, 2017 Sarah F. McGough, John S. Brownstein, Jared B. Hawkins, Mauricio Santillana
PLOS ONE Limits to Causal Inference with State-Space Reconstruction for Infectious Disease
December 28, 2016 Sarah Cobey, Edward B. Baskerville
PLOS ONE Influenza Forecasting in Human Populations: A Scoping Review
April 8, 2014 Jean-Paul Chretien, Dylan George, Jeffrey Shaman, Rohit A. Chitale, F. Ellis McKenzie

Treatment and Control

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PLOS ONE Serological signatures of declining exposure following intensification of integrated malaria control in two rural Senegalese communities
June 13, 2017 Ronald Perraut, Marie-Louise Varela, Cheikh Loucoubar, Oumy Niass, Awa Sidibé, Adama Tall, Jean-François Trape, Amele Nyedzie Wotodjo, Babacar Mbengue, Cheikh Sokhna, Inès Vigan-Womas, Aissatou Touré, Vincent Richard, Odile Mercereau-Puijalon
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10.1371/journal.pone.0177113

PLOS ONE Serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in children in the post-PCV era: A systematic review and meta-analysis
May 9, 2017 Evelyn Balsells, Laurence Guillot, Harish Nair, Moe H. Kyaw
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PLOS ONE Impact of CD4 and CD8 dynamics and viral rebounds on loss of virological control in HIV controllers
April 5, 2017 Fanny Chereau, Yoann Madec, Caroline Sabin, Niels Obel, Ezequiel Ruiz-Mateos, Georgios Chrysos, Sarah Fidler, Clara Lehmann, Robert Zangerle, Linda Wittkop, Peter Reiss, Osamah Hamouda, Vicente Estrada Perez, Manuel Leal, Amanda Mocroft, Patricia Garcia De Olalla, Adriana Ammassari, Antonella D’Arminio Monforte, Cristina Mussini, Ferran Segura, Antonella Castagna, Matthias Cavassini, Sophie Grabar, Philippe Morlat, Stéphane De Wit, Olivier Lambotte, Laurence Meyer, The HIV Controllers Project Working Group for the Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE) in EuroCOORD
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PLOS ONE Characteristics of RSV-Specific Maternal Antibodies in Plasma of Hospitalized, Acute RSV Patients under Three Months of Age
January 30, 2017 Jop Jans, Ivy Widjaja, Inge M. L. Ahout, Ronald de Groot, Teun Guichelaar, Willem Luytjes, Marien I. de Jonge, Cornelis A. M. de Haan, Gerben Ferwerda, Oliver Wicht
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PLOS ONE Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Treatment for People Who Inject Drugs and the Impact of the Type of Epidemic; Extrapolating from Amsterdam, the Netherlands
October 6, 2016 Daniëla K. van Santen, Anneke S. de Vos, Sophie B. Willemse, Karen Lindenburg, Mirjam E. E. Kretzschmar, Maria Prins, G. Ardine de Wit, Amy Matser
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PLOS ONE Understanding Disease Control: Influence of Epidemiological and Economic Factors
May 9, 2012 Katarzyna Oleś, Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Adam Kleczkowski
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PLOS ONE Resource Allocation for Epidemic Control in Metapopulations
September 13, 2011 Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah, Christopher A. Gilligan
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PLOS ONE Full-Exon Resequencing Reveals Toll-Like Receptor Variants Contribute to Human Susceptibility to Tuberculosis Disease
December 19, 2007 Xin Ma, Yuhua Liu, Brian B. Gowen, Edward A. Graviss, Andrew G. Clark, James M. Musser
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PLOS ONE Transmission Heterogeneity and Control Strategies for Infectious Disease Emergence
August 22, 2007 Luca Bolzoni, Leslie Real, Giulio De Leo
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PLOS ONE Controlling Pandemic Flu: The Value of International Air Travel Restrictions
May 2, 2007 Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Feng Yu, Robert J. Morris, Diane K. Wagener, Georgiy V. Bobashev

Vaccines

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PLOS ONE Effectiveness of the 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV23) against Pneumococcal Disease in the Elderly: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
January 6, 2017 Gerhard Falkenhorst, Cornelius Remschmidt, Thomas Harder, Eva Hummers-Pradier, Ole Wichmann, Christian Bogdan
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PLOS ONE Impact of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Clinical and Hypoxemic Childhood Pneumonia over Three Years in Central Malawi: An Observational Study
January 4, 2017 Eric D. McCollum, Bejoy Nambiar, Rashid Deula, Beatiwel Zadutsa, Austin Bondo, Carina King, James Beard, Harry Liyaya, Limangeni Mankhambo, Marzia Lazzerini, Charles Makwenda, Gibson Masache, Naor Bar-Zeev, Peter N. Kazembe, Charles Mwansambo, Norman Lufesi, Anthony Costello, Ben Armstrong, Tim Colbourn
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PLOS ONE Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Prime-Boost Vaccination with ChAd63 and MVA Encoding ME-TRAP against Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Adults in Senegal
December 15, 2016 Victorine A. Mensah, Aly Gueye, Magatte Ndiaye, Nick J. Edwards, Danny Wright, Nicholas A. Anagnostou, Massamba Syll, Amy Ndaw, Annie Abiola, Carly Bliss, Jules-François Gomis, Ines Petersen, Caroline Ogwang, Tandakha Dieye, Nicola K. Viebig, Alison M. Lawrie, Rachel Roberts, Alfredo Nicosia, Babacar Faye, Oumar Gaye, Odile Leroy, Egeruan B. Imoukhuede, Katie J. Ewer, Philip Bejon, Adrian V. S. Hill, Badara Cisse, MVVC group
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PLOS ONE Impact and Effectiveness of 10 and 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines on Hospitalization and Mortality in Children Aged Less than 5 Years in Latin American Countries: A Systematic Review
December 12, 2016 Lucia Helena de Oliveira, Luiz Antonio B. Camacho, Evandro S. F. Coutinho, Martha S. Martinez-Silveira, Ana Flavia Carvalho, Cuauhtemoc Ruiz-Matus, Cristiana M. Toscano
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PLOS ONE Low 2012–13 Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Associated with Mutation in the Egg-Adapted H3N2 Vaccine Strain Not Antigenic Drift in Circulating Viruses
March 25, 2014 Danuta M. Skowronski, Naveed Z. Janjua, Gaston De Serres, Suzana Sabaiduc, Alireza Eshaghi, James A. Dickinson, Kevin Fonseca, Anne-Luise Winter, Jonathan B. Gubbay, Mel Krajden, Martin Petric, Hugues Charest, Nathalie Bastien, Trijntje L. Kwindt, Salaheddin M. Mahmud, Paul Van Caeseele, Yan Li
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10.1371/journal.pone.0068329

PLOS ONE Reduced Prevalence of Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 4 Years after Bivalent HPV Vaccination in a Randomized Clinical Trial in Costa Rica
July 17, 2013 Rolando Herrero, Wim Quint, Allan Hildesheim, Paula Gonzalez, Linda Struijk, Hormuzd A. Katki, Carolina Porras, Mark Schiffman, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Diane Solomon, Silvia Jimenez, John T. Schiller, Douglas R. Lowy, Leen-Jan van Doorn, Sholom Wacholder, Aimée R. Kreimer, for the CVT Vaccine Group
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PLOS ONE Preclinical and Clinical Development of Plant-Made Virus-Like Particle Vaccine against Avian H5N1 Influenza
December 22, 2010 Nathalie Landry, Brian J. Ward, Sonia Trépanier, Emanuele Montomoli, Michèle Dargis, Giulia Lapini, Louis-P. Vézina
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PLOS ONE MVA.85A Boosting of BCG and an Attenuated, phoP Deficient M. tuberculosis Vaccine Both Show Protective Efficacy Against Tuberculosis in Rhesus Macaques
April 15, 2009 Frank A. W. Verreck, Richard A. W. Vervenne, Ivanela Kondova, Klaas W. van Kralingen, Edmond J. Remarque, Gerco Braskamp, Nicole M. van der Werff, Ariena Kersbergen, Tom H. M. Ottenhoff, Peter J. Heidt, Sarah C. Gilbert, Brigitte Gicquel, Adrian V. S. Hill, Carlos Martin, Helen McShane, Alan W. Thomas
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PLOS ONE MF59-Adjuvanted H5N1 Vaccine Induces Immunologic Memory and Heterotypic Antibody Responses in Non-Elderly and Elderly Adults
February 6, 2009 Angelika Banzhoff, Roberto Gasparini, Franco Laghi-Pasini, Tommaso Staniscia, Paolo Durando, Emanuele Montomoli, Pamela Capecchi, Pamela di Giovanni, Laura Sticchi, Chiara Gentile, Anke Hilbert, Volker Brauer, Sandrine Tilman, Audino Podda
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PLOS ONE Cationic Liposomes Formulated with Synthetic Mycobacterial Cordfactor (CAF01): A Versatile Adjuvant for Vaccines with Different Immunological Requirements
September 8, 2008 Else Marie Agger, Ida Rosenkrands, Jon Hansen, Karima Brahimi, Brian S. Vandahl, Claus Aagaard, Kerstin Werninghaus, Carsten Kirschning, Roland Lang, Dennis Christensen, Michael Theisen, Frank Follmann, Peter Andersen
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PLOS ONE Phase 1 Trial of Malaria Transmission Blocking Vaccine Candidates Pfs25 and Pvs25 Formulated with Montanide ISA 51
July 9, 2008 Yimin Wu, Ruth D. Ellis, Donna Shaffer, Erica Fontes, Elissa M. Malkin, Siddhartha Mahanty, Michael P. Fay, David Narum, Kelly Rausch, Aaron P. Miles, Joan Aebig, Andrew Orcutt, Olga Muratova, Guanhong Song, Lynn Lambert, Daming Zhu, Kazutoyo Miura, Carole Long, Allan Saul, Louis H. Miller, Anna P. Durbin
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PLOS ONE Broad Clade 2 Cross-Reactive Immunity Induced by an Adjuvanted Clade 1 rH5N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
February 27, 2008 Isabel Leroux-Roels, Roger Bernhard, Pascal Gérard, Mamadou Dramé, Emmanuel Hanon, Geert Leroux-Roels
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PLOS ONE Cross-Clade Protective Immune Responses to Influenza Viruses with H5N1 HA and NA Elicited by an Influenza Virus-Like Particle
January 30, 2008 Rick A. Bright, Donald M. Carter, Corey J. Crevar, Franklin R. Toapanta, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Kelly S. Cole, Niranjan M. Kumar, Peter Pushko, Gale Smith, Terrence M. Tumpey, Ted M. Ross
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PLOS ONE Cross-Protection against Lethal H5N1 Challenge in Ferrets with an Adjuvanted Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
January 2, 2008 Benoît Baras, Koert J. Stittelaar, James H. Simon, Robert J. M. M. Thoolen, Sally P. Mossman, Frank H. M. Pistoor, Geert van Amerongen, Martine A. Wettendorff, Emmanuel Hanon, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
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PLOS ONE Design and Pre-Clinical Evaluation of a Universal HIV-1 Vaccine
October 3, 2007 Sven Létourneau, Eung-Jun Im, Tumelo Mashishi, Choechoe Brereton, Anne Bridgeman, Hongbing Yang, Lucy Dorrell, Tao Dong, Bette Korber, Andrew J. McMichael, Tomáš Hanke

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PLOS ONE The emerging GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney 2012 norovirus lineage is circulating worldwide, arose by late-2014 and contains polymerase changes that may increase virus transmission
June 29, 2017 Christopher Ruis, Sunando Roy, Julianne R. Brown, David J. Allen, Richard A. Goldstein, Judith Breuer
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PLOS ONE Mumps Epidemiology and Mumps Virus Genotypes Circulating in Mainland China during 2013-2015
January 13, 2017 Aili Cui, Zhen Zhu, Ying Hu, Xiuying Deng, Zhaodan Sun, Yan Zhang, Naiying Mao, Songtao Xu, Xueqiang Fang, Hui Gao, Yuan Si, Yake Lei, Huanying Zheng, Jilan He, Hongwei Wu, Wenbo Xu
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PLOS ONE Dynamic Forecasting of Zika Epidemics Using Google Trends
January 6, 2017 Yue Teng, Dehua Bi, Guigang Xie, Yuan Jin, Yong Huang, Baihan Lin, Xiaoping An, Dan Feng, Yigang Tong
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PLOS ONE Submicroscopic and Asymptomatic Plasmodium Parasitaemia Associated with Significant Risk of Anaemia in Papua, Indonesia
October 27, 2016 Zuleima Pava, Faustina H. Burdam, Irene Handayuni, Leily Trianty, Retno A. S. Utami, Yusrifar Kharisma Tirta, Enny Kenangalem, Daniel Lampah, Andreas Kusuma, Grennady Wirjanata, Steven Kho, Julie A. Simpson, Sarah Auburn, Nicholas M. Douglas, Rintis Noviyanti, Nicholas M. Anstey, Jeanne R. Poespoprodjo, Jutta Marfurt, Ric N. Price
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PLOS ONE The Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD): Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance
January 28, 2016 Kristen J Margevicius, Nicholas Generous, Esteban Abeyta, Ben Althouse, Howard Burkom, Lauren Castro, Ashlynn Daughton, Sara Y. Del Valle, Geoffrey Fairchild, James M. Hyman, Richard Kiang, Andrew P. Morse, Carmen M. Pancerella, Laura Pullum, Arvind Ramanathan, Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, Aaron Scott, Kirsten J Taylor-McCabe, Alessandro Vespignani, Alina Deshpande
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PLOS ONE Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada
December 18, 2013 Hasina Samji, Angela Cescon, Robert S. Hogg, Sharada P. Modur, Keri N. Althoff, Kate Buchacz, Ann N. Burchell, Mardge Cohen, Kelly A. Gebo, M. John Gill, Amy Justice, Gregory Kirk, Marina B. Klein, P. Todd Korthuis, Jeff Martin, Sonia Napravnik, Sean B. Rourke, Timothy R. Sterling, Michael J. Silverberg, Stephen Deeks, Lisa P. Jacobson, Ronald J. Bosch, Mari M. Kitahata, James J. Goedert, Richard Moore, Stephen J. Gange, for The North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of IeDEA
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PLOS ONE The South to North Variation of Norovirus Epidemics from 2006–07 to 2008–09 in Japan
August 19, 2013 Shinako Inaida, Yugo Shobugawa, Shigeo Matsuno, Reiko Saito, Hiroshi Suzuki
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PLOS ONE Assessing Google Flu Trends Performance in the United States during the 2009 Influenza Virus A (H1N1) Pandemic
August 19, 2011 Samantha Cook, Ashley L. Fowlkes, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Corrie Conrad
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PLOS ONE High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School
August 16, 2011 Juliette Stehlé, Nicolas Voirin, Ciro Cattuto, Lorenzo Isella, Jean-François Pinton, Marco Quaggiotto, Wouter Van den Broeck, Corinne Régis, Bruno Lina, Philippe Vanhems, Alain Barrat
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PLOS ONE The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Publicn Concern in the U.S. during the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic
May 4, 2011 Alessio Signorini, Alberto Maria Segre, Philip M. Polgreen
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PLOS ONE The Impact of Realistic Age Structure in Simple Models of Tuberculosis Transmission
January 7, 2010 Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Ted Cohen, Megan Murray
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PLOS ONE EpiCollect: Linking Smartphones to Web Applications for Epidemiology, Ecology and Community Data Collection
September 16, 2009 David M. Aanensen, Derek M. Huntley, Edward J. Feil, Fada'a al-Own, Brian G. Spratt

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