With great interest, we studied the recently updated guideline on the management of endocarditis by the European Society of Cardiology that was published in the European Heart Journal,1 appreciating the substantial new insights and additions in the man...
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the current pertussis epidemic in Denmark is discussed.1 The quotes from Denmark are correct, but there are some misconceptions from other experts that were interviewed for the article. Some clarifications are therefo...
Florimond C, de Laval F, Early AM. Impact of piperaquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum on malaria treatment effectiveness in French Guiana: a descriptive epidemiological study. Lancet Infect Dis 2023; published online Oct 16. https://doi.org/10.1...
Florimond C, de Laval F, Early AM. Impact of piperaquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum on malaria treatment effectiveness in French Guiana: a descriptive epidemiological study. Lancet Infect Dis 2023; published online Oct 16. https://doi.org/10.1...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of asymptomatic influenza virus infections in influenza transmission was uncertain. However, the importance of asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2 for onward transmission of COVID-19 has led experts to question...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of asymptomatic influenza virus infections in influenza transmission was uncertain. However, the importance of asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2 for onward transmission of COVID-19 has led experts to question...
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the current pertussis epidemic in Denmark is discussed.1 The quotes from Denmark are correct, but there are some misconceptions from other experts that were interviewed for the article. Some clarifications are therefo...
Two nOPV2 doses administered 1 week or 2 weeks apart from age 6 weeks to 8 weeks were safe and immunogenic. Immune responses after a 2-week interval were non-inferior to those after the standard 4-week interval, but marked responses after a 1-week inte...
Poliomyelitis, a debilitating disease, has been largely eliminated due to the global dissemination of effective vaccines. The first vaccine against poliovirus, introduced in 1961, was a trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) against serotypes 1–3. Vaccinat...
The SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant BA.2.86, which was quickly designated as a variant under monitoring after its emergence, has garnered global attention. Although BA.2.86 did not show substantial humoral immune escape and growth advantage compared with ...
Although rates of death and adverse health outcomes following hospital admission for either seasonal influenza or COVID-19 are high, this comparative analysis shows that hospital admission for COVID-19 was associated with higher long-term risks of deat...
On Dec 31, 2019, WHO was informed about a new respiratory illness of unclear aetiology in Wuhan, China. By Jan 7, 2020, the aetiological agent of these severe cases of pneumonia was identified as a novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, and the disease t...
Fornace KM, Laporta GZ, Vythilingham I, et al. Simian malaria: a narrative review on emergence, epidemiology and threat to global malaria elimination. Lancet Infect Dis 2023; 23: e520–32—In this Review, the second sentence of the abstract has been chan...
Fornace KM, Laporta GZ, Vythilingham I, et al. Simian malaria: a narrative review on emergence, epidemiology and threat to global malaria elimination. Lancet Infect Dis 2023; 23: e520–32—In this Review, the second sentence of the abstract has been chan...
As the world continues to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new challenge has emerged in the form of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS), also known as long COVID. Characterised by multisystem involvement, PACS can lead to a substanti...
As the world continues to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new challenge has emerged in the form of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS), also known as long COVID. Characterised by multisystem involvement, PACS can lead to a substanti...