Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101137
Dearbhla Butler, Niamh O'Flaherty, Dermot Coyne, Padraig Williams, Paul Holder, Cillian De Gascun, Allison Waters
{"title":"Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence and Seroconversion in the Irish Blood Donor Population.","authors":"Dearbhla Butler, Niamh O'Flaherty, Dermot Coyne, Padraig Williams, Paul Holder, Cillian De Gascun, Allison Waters","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146141471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101095
Md Asaduzzaman, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Md Abdullah Omar Nasif, Dilini Mataraarachchi, Ehsan Ahmed Larik, Joshua Onyango, Masum Billah, Avinash Sharma, Mahbubur Rahman, Farhana Haque, Danai Papakonstantinou, Priyamvada Paudyal, Najmul Haider
{"title":"Unravelling the dengue surge in South Asia during 2000-2023: pattern, trend, genomics, and key determinants.","authors":"Md Asaduzzaman, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Md Abdullah Omar Nasif, Dilini Mataraarachchi, Ehsan Ahmed Larik, Joshua Onyango, Masum Billah, Avinash Sharma, Mahbubur Rahman, Farhana Haque, Danai Papakonstantinou, Priyamvada Paudyal, Najmul Haider","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146124171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101010
Keer Ma, Wuming Sun, Gujie Pan, Yongjiang Xu, Yuan Shi, Yao Chen
{"title":"Antimicrobial resistance in <i>Bordetella pertussis</i>: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Keer Ma, Wuming Sun, Gujie Pan, Yongjiang Xu, Yuan Shi, Yao Chen","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146124158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101022
Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Hai Liang, Kelli J Pierce, Alicia N M Kraay, Kin On Kwok, Andrei R Akhmetzhanov, Frank E Baiden, H Juliette T Unwin, Francis B Kengne, Faharudeen Alhassan, Gerardo Chowell
{"title":"Excess Mortality in Mainland China after the End of the Zero COVID Policy: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Hai Liang, Kelli J Pierce, Alicia N M Kraay, Kin On Kwok, Andrei R Akhmetzhanov, Frank E Baiden, H Juliette T Unwin, Francis B Kengne, Faharudeen Alhassan, Gerardo Chowell","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146124175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101046
Renu Unnikrishanan, Yuejen Zhao, Christopher Paul Burgess, Peter Gregory Markey, Ramakrishna Chondur, Jerry Chen, Vicki Krause
{"title":"Measuring the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Territory, Australia.","authors":"Renu Unnikrishanan, Yuejen Zhao, Christopher Paul Burgess, Peter Gregory Markey, Ramakrishna Chondur, Jerry Chen, Vicki Krause","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146124220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-04DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101083
Keyao Xiong, Juliana M Ruzante, Ross M Maltz, James Andrew Barkley, Nadira Yasmin, Devin LaPolt, Tyler Cobb, Barbara Kowalcyk
{"title":"Patterns of gastrointestinal pathogen co-detection in paediatric stool samples identified by rapid multiplex PCR.","authors":"Keyao Xiong, Juliana M Ruzante, Ross M Maltz, James Andrew Barkley, Nadira Yasmin, Devin LaPolt, Tyler Cobb, Barbara Kowalcyk","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146112629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101113
Angelina R Varon, Melissa A Prusinski, Collin O'Connor, Joseph G Maffei, Lindsay Tomaszek, Jessica Stout, Anne F Payne, Alan P Dupuis, Alexander T Ciota, Kyle Carson, Lindsey A Jones, Kelly Howard, William T Lee, Jennifer White
{"title":"Epidemiology and Risk Analysis of Powassan Virus Infection, New York State, USA, 2013-2023.","authors":"Angelina R Varon, Melissa A Prusinski, Collin O'Connor, Joseph G Maffei, Lindsay Tomaszek, Jessica Stout, Anne F Payne, Alan P Dupuis, Alexander T Ciota, Kyle Carson, Lindsey A Jones, Kelly Howard, William T Lee, Jennifer White","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146104396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826101071
Carolina Axelsson, Annie Justh de Neczpal, Åsa Sjöling, Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm
{"title":"Emergence of blaNDM-5 <i>Enterobacterales</i> in Swedish Wastewater Effluent.","authors":"Carolina Axelsson, Annie Justh de Neczpal, Åsa Sjöling, Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm","doi":"10.1017/S0950268826101071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268826101071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146084948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1017/S0950268826100995
Lung-Chang Chien, L-W Antony Chen, Edom Gelaw, Cheryl M Collins, Chad L Cross, Lei Zhang, Anil T Mangla, Cassius Lockett
We developed a dynamic COVID-19 Vaccination Barrier Index (CVBI) at the census-tract level in Clark County, Nevada and assessed its geographic disparities and relationship with COVID-19 vaccination rates over time. Using monthly census-tract data from December 2020 to June 2022, the CVBI integrated demographic, socioeconomic, environmental, housing, and transportation variables, alongside surrogates for vaccination accessibility and vaccine hesitancy. Lagged weighted quantile sum regression was applied to construct monthly indices, while a Besag-York-Mollié model assessed associations with vaccination rates. The results revealed consistent vaccination barriers such as living in group quarters, housing inadequacy, and population density across all vaccination statuses (partial, full, booster). Rural and northern Clark County, especially northeastern Las Vegas, exhibited higher CVBI scores that correlated negatively with vaccination rates. Booster vaccination patterns differed, displaying fewer significantly vulnerable tracts. The dynamic nature of barriers is evident, highlighting temporal shifts in the significance of variables like driving distance to vaccine sites. This study emphasizes the importance of dynamic, localized assessments in identifying vaccination barriers, guiding public health interventions, and informing resource allocation to enhance vaccine accessibility during pandemics.
我们在内华达州克拉克县的人口普查区水平上制定了动态COVID-19疫苗接种障碍指数(CVBI),并评估了其地理差异及其与COVID-19疫苗接种率的关系。CVBI利用2020年12月至2022年6月的月度人口普查数据,综合了人口统计学、社会经济、环境、住房和交通变量,以及疫苗接种可及性和疫苗犹豫的替代指标。滞后加权分位数和回归用于构建月度指数,而besag - york - molli模型评估与疫苗接种率的关联。结果显示,所有疫苗接种状态(部分、充分、加强)均存在一致的疫苗接种障碍,如居住在群体宿舍、住房不足和人口密度。农村和克拉克县北部,特别是拉斯维加斯东北部,CVBI得分较高,与疫苗接种率呈负相关。加强疫苗接种模式有所不同,显示出较少的明显易感病毒束。障碍的动态性是显而易见的,突出了到疫苗站点的驾驶距离等变量的重要性的时间变化。本研究强调了动态、本地化评估在确定疫苗接种障碍、指导公共卫生干预和告知资源分配以提高大流行期间疫苗可及性方面的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1017/S095026882610106X
Jenny Márquez, García-García David, M Isabel Vigo, César Bordehore
{"title":"Retrospective estimate of COVID-19 infections in nine Colombian cities in 2020.","authors":"Jenny Márquez, García-García David, M Isabel Vigo, César Bordehore","doi":"10.1017/S095026882610106X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026882610106X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11721,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146046381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}