Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is responsible for an estimated 33 million cases of pneumonia and more than 100 000 deaths annually in children younger than 5 years.1 For the past two decades, the monoclonal antibody palivizumab has been the only ava...
The Carter Center's 2023 report showed a remarkable reduction in Guinea worm cases, bringing the ancient parasitic disease closer to being eradicated. Alix Boisson-Walsh reports.
In many countries national immunisation programmes are the backbone of primary health care and represent a substantial share in health-care expenditures. Therefore, the introduction and use of a vaccine in a public health programme require a strategic ...
Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis is a complex clinical condition caused by the complications of chronic infection with Schistosoma species that cause intestinal schistosomiasis. Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis derives from the fibrotic reaction stimulated a...
COVAX, the vaccine pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, officially closed on Dec 31, 2023, having delivered 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Timothy Jesudason reports.
Epidemiology of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) has been strongly influenced by COVID-19-related non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented worldwide.
I thank Inès Fafi and colleagues for their Correspondence on our study of the changes in the burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisations in young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Fafi and colleagues rightly emphasised the need t...
China's queer communities have a rich lexicon of queer terms, many of which are unique to China. One predominant phrase is “people inside the circle”, described as people sharing “a common queer identity” that can be “as small as a few queer friends” o...
Due to the continued emergence of resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotics, clinicians are increasingly more likely to encounter cases of Neisseria gonorrhoeae treatment failure. The current international treatment guidelines offer few...
Rifasutenizol monotherapy and combination therapy was generally safe and well tolerated in healthy participants and patients with H pylori infection. A triple regimen of 400 mg rifasutenizol capsules, 20 mg rabeprazole sodium enteric-coated tablets, an...
Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection is the main cause of gastritis, gastrointestinal ulcers, gastric cancer, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.1,2 Current guidelines recommend eradication of H pylori, regardless of clinical symptoms.3
We read with interest the response from Richard Armitage1 to our Correspondence on ChatGPT 3·5 and clinical vignettes of confirmed histoplasmosis cases in people living with HIV.2 The main point highlighted was that the way the prompt was formulated co...
Cryptococcosis is a major worldwide disseminated invasive fungal infection. Cryptococcosis, particularly in its most lethal manifestation of cryptococcal meningitis, accounts for substantial mortality and morbidity. The breadth of the clinical cryptoco...
We inferred subnational heterogeneity in long-term average annual FOI and transmission dynamics and identified both endemic and epidemic settings across different countries. Brazil, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and India included both endemic and epidemic setti...
We inferred subnational heterogeneity in long-term average annual FOI and transmission dynamics and identified both endemic and epidemic settings across different countries. Brazil, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and India included both endemic and epidemic setti...
Chikungunya is an emerging mosquito-borne viral infection causing an increasing number of outbreaks in the tropics and subtropics, and smaller outbreaks have also been observed in temperate climates, including Europe.1 The infection has also become an ...