Albert I Ko
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Recent Articles
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Lackritz E, Ng L, Marques E, Rabe I, Bourne N, Staples J, et al.
Lancet Infect Dis
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40024263
The 2015-16 Zika virus epidemic emerged in the Americas and rapidly spread throughout the region and beyond, showing the epidemic potential of this mosquito-borne Orthoflavivirus and its capacity to cause...
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Mogaji H, Nery Jr N, Argibay H, Cruz J, Carneiro I, Lustosa R, et al.
BMJ Public Health
. 2025 Feb;
2(1):e000572.
PMID: 40018243
Background: Disadvantaged populations, especially those living in rural and informal settlements, constitute the most affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is limited information on the health-related quality of life...
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Pischel L, Aguolu O, Ahmed N, Campbell M, Borg R, Duckwall C, et al.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
. 2025 Jan;
:1-9.
PMID: 39880795
Background: Understanding healthcare personnel's (HCP) contact patterns are important to mitigate healthcare-associated infectious disease transmission. Little is known about how HCP contact patterns change over time or during outbreaks such...
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Lapidus S, Goheen M, Sy M, Deme A, Ndiaye I, Diedhiou Y, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2024 Oct;
PMID: 39475423
Background: Measuring malaria transmission intensity using the traditional entomological inoculation rate is difficult. Antibody responses to mosquito salivary proteins like SG6 have been used as biomarkers of exposure to Anopheles...
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Soni N, Eyre M, Souza F, Diggle P, Ko A, Begon M, et al.
Front Public Health
. 2024 Oct;
12:1447592.
PMID: 39360250
Rats are major reservoirs for pathogenic , the bacteria causing leptospirosis, particularly in urban informal settlements. However, the impact of variation in rat abundance and pathogen shedding rates on spillover...
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Carvalho-Pereira T, Pedra G, de Oliveira D, Souza F, Zeppelini C, Santos L, et al.
Res Sq
. 2024 Sep;
PMID: 39315279
Host condition is key in understanding disease dynamics. In an urban population of Rattus norvegicus, we aimed to assess whether infection of Leptospira interrogans and helminths was associated with patterns...
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Amin A, Hitchings M, Ranzani O, Andrews J, Cummings D, Ko A, et al.
Am J Epidemiol
. 2024 Aug;
PMID: 39191656
Test-negative designs are increasingly used to evaluate vaccine effectiveness because of desirable properties like reduced confounding due to healthcare-seeking behaviors and lower cost compared to other study designs. An individual's...
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Cervantes Rincon T, Kapoor T, Keeffe J, Simonelli L, Hoffmann H, Agudelo M, et al.
Cell Rep
. 2024 May;
43(6):114298.
PMID: 38819991
Flaviviruses such as dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and yellow fever virus (YFV) are spread by mosquitoes and cause human disease and mortality in tropical areas. In contrast, Powassan...
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de Oliveira D, Khalil H, Almerinda G Palma F, Santana R, Nery Jr N, C Quintero-Velez J, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2024 May;
18(5):e0011292.
PMID: 38758957
Background: Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by pathogenic species of bacteria belonging to the genus Leptospira. Most studies infer the epidemiological patterns of a single serogroup or aggregate all serogroups...
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Delight E, de Carvalho Santiago D, Almerinda G Palma F, de Oliveira D, Souza F, Santana J, et al.
medRxiv
. 2024 May;
PMID: 38746452
Background: Vulnerability to climate hazards and infectious diseases are not gender-neutral, meaning that men, women, boys, girls, and other gender identities experience different health risks. Leptospirosis, a zoonotic climate sensitive...