Credit to lead Caitlin Pley and coauthors @chriswymant.bsky.social @kategrabowski.bsky.social @francescodilauro.bsky.social @jameshay.bsky.social @mlipsitch.bsky.social + others not on Bluesky
If less than 76.6% of your exploratory ideas fail, you’re not exploring enough…
H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770....
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How about a bit of good news? 8 patients were dismissed from the hospital in Uganda after recovering from Ebola. Many still in the quarantine period so outbreak still officially ongoing, but it's impressive that out of the 9 identified infections, there has only been one death (the index patient).
Christophe Fraser's Group
HIV-phyloTSI is a random forest machine learning algorithm, combining measures of within-host diversity and divergence. We trained on data from 480 individuals with known approximate TSI, from four cohorts in Africa in Europe.
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Credit to lead Tanya Golubchik, coauthors @chriswymant.bsky.social @astridgagall.bsky.social @helenzambart.bsky.social @kategrabowski.bsky.social + many more not on Bluesky
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New paper: our method HIV-phyloTSI estimates time-since-infection for HIV using deep viral sequence data.
Estimating continuous TSI, not just recent / not-recent, gives incidence over time, allowing evaluation of the impact of interventions.
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bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
