Carol R Byerly's book Mosquito warrior: yellow fever, public health, and the forgotten career of General William C Gorgas unfolds the biography of William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), an army doctor in the USA who made substantial contribution to publi...
Krolewiecki A, Stella S, Fleitas PE, et al. Albendazole–ivermectin co-formulation for the treatment of Trichuris trichiura and other soil-transmitted helminths: a randomised phase 2/3 trial. Lancet Infect Dis 2025; published online Jan 10. https://doi....
According to WHO, 95% of deaths from tuberculosis occur in low-income and middle-income countries. It is therefore fitting that A brief social history of tuberculosis: key challenges to global health was edited and written by people predominantly from ...
The zoonotic Orthopoxvirus monkeypox virus includes two main clades (ie, 1 and 2) relevant to human transmission.1 Two major outbreaks of monkeypox virus have occurred since 2022,1–3 and were declared public health emergencies of international concern ...
This Correspondence examines a complex case of an immunocompromised patient at an mpox treatment centre in South Kivu, DR Congo, highlighting the shortcomings of outbreak-focused care models and their inability to address broader health-care needs.
Human intestinal spirochaetosis is caused by the colonisation of the luminal membrane of the colon and rectum by anaerobic spirochaetes belonging to the genus Brachyspira. The common method used for its diagnosis is routine haematoxylin and eosin stain...
RSV vaccination was effective in preventing RSV-related illness, including associated health-care use, in adults aged 60 years and older during the 2023–24 respiratory illness season, supporting current recommendations for vaccination in this populatio...
Winter viruses like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continue to be important causes of mortality in older adults. During the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–30), and nearly seven decades after the discovery of RSV, the first vaccine a...
In 2022, vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) emerged as a potential threat to global polio eradication.1 The first known outbreak of VDPV infection was reported in Hispaniola in 2000–012 and was associated with VDPV type 1. Since 2005, outbreaks due t...
The incidence of syphilis has increased steadily over the past 25 years. Undiagnosed cases have presumably increased in the same proportions, and rare complications are at particularly high risk of being unrecognised. A previously healthy 60-year-old m...
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a growing threat globally, specifically in health-care settings in which antimicrobial-resistant pathogens cause a substantial proportion of health-care-associated infections (HAIs). Next-generation sequencing (...
Bennett JC, Deloria Knoll M, Kagucia EW, et al. Global impact of ten-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease in all ages (the PSERENADE project): a global surveillance analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 2024; publ...
Macià D, Campo JJ, Jairoce C, et al. The effect of Plasmodium falciparum exposure and maternal anti-circumsporozoite protein antibodies on responses to RTS,S/AS01E vaccination in infants and children: an ancillary observational immunological study to a...
Macià D, Campo JJ, Jairoce C, et al. The effect of Plasmodium falciparum exposure and maternal anti-circumsporozoite protein antibodies on responses to RTS,S/AS01E vaccination in infants and children: an ancillary observational immunological study to a...
SPAQ and dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine effectively reduced malaria in children younger than 5 years, with no safety concerns. There was no evidence of resistance selection by SMC. Although these findings support SPAQ-based SMC in Eastern and Southern ...
SPAQ and dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine effectively reduced malaria in children younger than 5 years, with no safety concerns. There was no evidence of resistance selection by SMC. Although these findings support SPAQ-based SMC in Eastern and Southern ...