Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. The putative long-term effects of COVID-19 on th...
Rehman U, Liu J, Oakley R, et al. Rapidly rising rates of oropharyngeal cancer and economic burden in the UK. Lancet Infect Dis 2025; published online March 24. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00181-1—In this Correspondence, the spelling of autho...
The intention-to-diagnose principle, an analogue to the intention-to-treat principle in clinical trials, protects the foundation for inference in diagnostic test accuracy studies. This foundation provides for robust control of error rates during hypoth...
The intention-to-diagnose principle, an analogue to the intention-to-treat principle in clinical trials, protects the foundation for inference in diagnostic test accuracy studies. This foundation provides for robust control of error rates during hypoth...
Vaccinating women with Tdap-IPV in pregnancy was safe and well tolerated in a sub-Saharan African setting and boosted the quantity and quality of pertussis-specific antibodies in infants in early life. Although Tdap-IPV was associated with relative blu...
In the words of Susan and Stanley Plotkin, “The impact of vaccination on the health of the world's people is hard to exaggerate. With the exception of safe water, no other modality, not even antibiotics, has had such a major effect on mortality reducti...
Doxy-PEP was effective in reducing bacterial STIs in this population of men who have sex with men and transgender women, including during an open-label extension when doxy-PEP efficacy was known. Doxy-PEP was well tolerated, highly acceptable, and with...
In this issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Anne F Luetkemeyer and colleagues report the final results from the DoxyPEP trial, notably its open-label extension that offered the intervention of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) for b...
Despite introducing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for boys aged 12–13 years in the UK in 2019, uptake remains limited in many regions, including London.1,2 The incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) in men has surpassed...
Rovina (Nina) Ruslami describes herself as a leaf that is blown by the wind in a good direction, to meet great people and work together on useful projects for others. “I never thought I would become who I am now!”, she tells The Lancet Infectious Disea...
A global survey released on March 5, 2025, highlights the potentially devastating impacts of the US Government's funding decisions. Ed Holt reports.
Preventive therapy remains key to the elimination of tuberculosis and is typically offered to people with presumptive Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection to prevent active disease. Although the duration of tuberculosis preventive therapy has been redu...
BALs are associated with an array of adverse health outcomes, especially surgical site infection and infection or colonisation with MDROs and C difficile. Although BALs were associated with longer hospital stays, the observed difference was unlikely to...
Physicians frequently encounter patients who report suspected drug allergies. Many physicians adopt a cautious approach by labelling these unverified drug allergies in their medical records, which often results in patients avoiding the drugs indefinite...
Multiple models and viewpoints have discussed how the recent dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the resulting shuttering of multiple global health programmes, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ...
Non-inferior immune responses for extended two-dose regimens of 2vHPV support dosing flexibility. For up to 24 months, one dose of 2vHPV elicited immunogenicity that was similar to one dose of 4vHPV, for which single-dose efficacy has been shown, suppo...