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Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review by Costa, Federico, Hagan, José E, Calcagno, Juan, Kane, Michael, Torgerson, Paul, Martinez-Silveira, Martha S, Stein, Claudia, Abela-Ridder, Bernadette, Ko, Albert I

“…Leptospirosis, a spirochaetal zoonosis, occurs in diverse epidemiological settings and affects vulnerable populations, such as rural subsistence farmers and…”
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Leptospira : the dawn of the molecular genetics era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen by Picardeau, Mathieu, Ko, Albert I, Goarant, Cyrille

“…Key Points Leptospira spp. belong to the bacterial phylum Spirochaetes, an evolutionarily and structurally unique group of bacteria. The genus Leptospira is…”
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Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater tracks community infection dynamics by Peccia, Jordan, Zulli, Alessandro, Brackney, Doug E., Grubaugh, Nathan D., Kaplan, Edward H., Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Ko, Albert I., Malik, Amyn A., Wang, Dennis, Wang, Mike, Warren, Joshua L., Weinberger, Daniel M., Arnold, Wyatt, Omer, Saad B.

“…We measured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA concentrations in primary sewage sludge in the New Haven, Connecticut, USA,…”
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Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in older adults during a gamma variant associated epidemic of covid-19 in Brazil: test negative case-control study by Ranzani, Otavio T, Hitchings, Matt D T, Dorion, Murilo, D'Agostini, Tatiana Lang, de Paula, Regiane Cardoso, de Paula, Olivia Ferreira Pereira, Villela, Edlaine Faria de Moura, Torres, Mario Sergio Scaramuzzini, de Oliveira, Silvano Barbosa, Schulz, Wade, Almiron, Maria, Said, Rodrigo, de Oliveira, Roberto Dias, Vieira da Silva, Patricia, de Araújo, Wildo Navegantes, Gorinchteyn, Jean Carlo, Andrews, Jason R, Cummings, Derek A T, Ko, Albert I, Croda, Julio

“…To estimate the effectiveness of the inactivated whole virus vaccine, CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech), against symptomatic covid-19 in the elderly population of…”
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Cutting Edge: Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Humans Is Defined by a Shift in the Serum Lipidome, Resulting in Dysregulation of Eicosanoid Immune Mediators by Schwarz, Benjamin, Sharma, Lokesh, Roberts, Lydia, Peng, Xiaohua, Bermejo, Santos, Leighton, Ian, Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Minasyan, Maksym, Farhadian, Shelli, Ko, Albert I, Dela Cruz, Charles S, Bosio, Catharine M

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has affected more than 20 million people worldwide, with mortality exceeding 800,000 patients. Risk factors associated with severe…”
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Neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants following heterologous CoronaVac plus BNT162b2 booster vaccination by Pérez-Then, Eddy, Lucas, Carolina, Monteiro, Valter Silva, Miric, Marija, Brache, Vivian, Cochon, Leila, Vogels, Chantal B. F., Malik, Amyn A., De la Cruz, Elena, Jorge, Aidelis, De los Santos, Margarita, Leon, Patricia, Breban, Mallery I., Billig, Kendall, Yildirim, Inci, Pearson, Claire, Downing, Randy, Gagnon, Emily, Muyombwe, Anthony, Razeq, Jafar, Campbell, Melissa, Ko, Albert I., Omer, Saad B., Grubaugh, Nathan D., Vermund, Sten H., Iwasaki, Akiko

“…The recent emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is raising concerns because of its increased transmissibility and its numerous spike mutations, which…”
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Zika Virus Infection and Stillbirths: A Case of Hydrops Fetalis, Hydranencephaly and Fetal Demise by Sarno, Manoel, Sacramento, Gielson A, Khouri, Ricardo, do Rosário, Mateus S, Costa, Federico, Archanjo, Gracinda, Santos, Luciane A, Nery, Jr, Nivison, Vasilakis, Nikos, Ko, Albert I, de Almeida, Antonio R P

“…The rapid spread of Zika virus in the Americas and current outbreak of microcephaly in Brazil has raised attention to the possible deleterious effects that the…”
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Quantification of Leptospira interrogans Survival in Soil and Water Microcosms by Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Pedra, Gabriel Ghizzi, Wunder, Jr, Elsio A, Diggle, Peter J, Begon, Mike, Ko, Albert I

“…is the etiological agent of leptospirosis, a globally distributed zoonotic disease. Human infection usually occurs through skin exposure with water and soil…”
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Global Burden of Leptospirosis: Estimated in Terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years by Torgerson, Paul R, Hagan, José E, Costa, Federico, Calcagno, Juan, Kane, Michael, Martinez-Silveira, Martha S, Goris, Marga G A, Stein, Claudia, Ko, Albert I, Abela-Ridder, Bernadette

“…Leptospirosis, a spirochaetal zoonosis, occurs in diverse epidemiological settings and affects vulnerable populations, such as rural subsistence farmers and…”
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COVID-19 vulnerability: the potential impact of genetic susceptibility and airborne transmission by Godri Pollitt, Krystal J, Peccia, Jordan, Ko, Albert I, Kaminski, Naftali, Dela Cruz, Charles S, Nebert, Daniel W, Reichardt, Juergen K V, Thompson, David C, Vasiliou, Vasilis

“…The recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, is inarguably the most challenging coronavirus outbreak relative to the previous outbreaks…”
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Effectiveness of an inactivated Covid-19 vaccine with homologous and heterologous boosters against Omicron in Brazil by Ranzani, Otavio T., Hitchings, Matt D. T., de Melo, Rosana Leite, de França, Giovanny V. A., Fernandes, Cássia de Fátima R., Lind, Margaret L., Torres, Mario Sergio Scaramuzzini, Tsuha, Daniel Henrique, David, Leticia C. S., Said, Rodrigo F. C., Almiron, Maria, de Oliveira, Roberto D., Cummings, Derek A. T., Dean, Natalie E., Andrews, Jason R., Ko, Albert I., Croda, Julio

“…The effectiveness of inactivated vaccines (VE) against symptomatic and severe COVID-19 caused by omicron is unknown. We conducted a nationwide, test-negative,…”
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Omicron-specific mRNA vaccination alone and as a heterologous booster against SARS-CoV-2 by Fang, Zhenhao, Peng, Lei, Filler, Renata, Suzuki, Kazushi, McNamara, Andrew, Lin, Qianqian, Renauer, Paul A., Yang, Luojia, Menasche, Bridget, Sanchez, Angie, Ren, Ping, Xiong, Qiancheng, Strine, Madison, Clark, Paul, Lin, Chenxiang, Ko, Albert I., Grubaugh, Nathan D., Wilen, Craig B., Chen, Sidi

“…The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 recently swept the globe and showed high level of immune evasion. Here, we generate an Omicron-specific lipid nanoparticle…”
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Incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis in incarcerated populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Cords, Olivia, Martinez, Leonardo, Warren, Joshua L, O'Marr, Jamieson Michael, Walter, Katharine S, Cohen, Ted, Zheng, Jimmy, Ko, Albert I, Croda, Julio, Andrews, Jason R

“…Prisons are recognised as high-risk environments for tuberculosis, but there has been little systematic investigation of the global and regional incidence and…”
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MPL36, a major plasminogen (PLG) receptor in pathogenic Leptospira, has an essential role during infection by Zhu, Weinan, Passalia, Felipe J, Hamond, Camila, Abe, Cecília M, Ko, Albert I, Barbosa, Angela S, Wunder, Jr, Elsio A

“…Leptospirosis, a zoonosis with worldwide distribution, is caused by pathogenic spirochetes belonging to the genus Leptospira. Bacterial outer membrane proteins…”
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Acute encephalopathy with elevated CSF inflammatory markers as the initial presentation of COVID-19 by Farhadian, Shelli, Glick, Laura R, Vogels, Chantal B F, Thomas, Jared, Chiarella, Jennifer, Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Zhou, Jing, Odio, Camila, Vijayakumar, Pavithra, Geng, Bertie, Fournier, John, Bermejo, Santos, Fauver, Joseph R, Alpert, Tara, Wyllie, Anne L, Turcotte, Cynthia, Steinle, Matthew, Paczkowski, Patrick, Dela Cruz, Charles, Wilen, Craig, Ko, Albert I, MacKay, Sean, Grubaugh, Nathan D, Spudich, Serena, Barakat, Lydia Aoun

“…COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus SARS-CoV-2. It is widely recognized as a respiratory pathogen, but neurologic complications…”
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Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil by Mabud, Tarub S, de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Maria, Ko, Albert I, Basu, Sanjay, Walter, Katharine S, Cohen, Ted, Mathema, Barun, Colijn, Caroline, Lemos, Everton, Croda, Julio, Andrews, Jason R

“…It has been hypothesized that prisons serve as amplifiers of general tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, but there is a paucity of data on this phenomenon and the…”
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Feasibility and acceptability of a pilot, peer-led HIV self-testing intervention in a hyperendemic fishing community in rural Uganda by Matovu, Joseph K.B, Bogart, Laura M, Nakabugo, Jennifer, Kagaayi, Joseph, Serwadda, David, Wanyenze, Rhoda K, Ko, Albert I, Kurth, Ann E

“…Background Novel interventions are needed to reach young people and adult men with HIV services given the low HIV testing rates in these population sub-groups…”
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Quantification of pathogenic Leptospira in the soils of a Brazilian urban slum by Schneider, Andrew G, Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Hacker, Kathryn P, Wunder, Jr, Elsio A, Begon, Mike, Reis, Mitermayer G, Childs, James E, Costa, Federico, Lindow, Janet C, Ko, Albert I

“…Leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease that causes considerable morbidity and mortality globally, primarily in residents of urban slums. While contact…”
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Stability of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Nonsupplemented Saliva by Ott, Isabel M, Strine, Madison S, Watkins, Anne E, Boot, Maikel, Kalinich, Chaney C, Harden, Christina A, Vogels, Chantal B F, Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Moore, Adam J, Muenker, M Catherine, Nakahata, Maura, Tokuyama, Maria, Nelson, Allison, Fournier, John, Bermejo, Santos, Campbell, Melissa, Datta, Rupak, Dela Cruz, Charles S, Farhadian, Shelli F, Ko, Albert I, Iwasaki, Akiko, Grubaugh, Nathan D, Wilen, Craig B, Wyllie, Anne L

“…The expense of saliva collection devices designed to stabilize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA is prohibitive to mass testing. However,…”
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Patterns in Leptospira Shedding in Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from Brazilian Slum Communities at High Risk of Disease Transmission by Costa, Federico, Wunder, Jr, Elsio A, De Oliveira, Daiana, Bisht, Vimla, Rodrigues, Gorete, Reis, Mitermayer G, Ko, Albert I, Begon, Mike, Childs, James E

“…We address some critical but unknown parameters of individuals and populations of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) that influence leptospiral infection,…”
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