On Nov. 8, Marco Salemi, Ph.D., will leave his role as associate director of research initiatives to serve as interim director of the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute.
The aim of this study is to provide conceptual clarity on psychosocial distress among African American and Latine men who have sex with men living with human immunodeficiency virus. As experienced by African American and Latine men who have sex with men living with human immunodeficiency virus, psychosocial distress is defined as a state of suffering due to uncontrollable structural and/or social factors that threaten the individual's existence and/or livelihood based on their social identity as a racial/ethnic, sexual minority.
We monitored SARS-CoV-2 variants in Haiti from 2020-2023. Despite Haitian COVID-19 travel restrictions and in the setting of a vaccination rate of 2.7%, the timing and lineage evolution of the Haiti epidemic mirrored what was occurring in the rest of the world.
Type III effectors (T3Es) are major determinants of Xanthomonas virulence and targets for resistance breeding. XopJ2 (synonym AvrBsT) is a highly conserved YopJ-family T3E acquired by X. perforans, the pathogen responsible for bacterial spot disease of tomato.
The COVID-19 pandemic is marked by the successive emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, lineages, and sublineages that outcompete earlier strains, largely due to factors like increased transmissibility and immune escape. We propose DeepAutoCoV, an unsupervised deep learning anomaly detection system, to predict future dominant lineages (FDLs).
Glenn Morris, Jr., steps down from his role as director of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, a globally recognized powerhouse for infectious disease research.
Deforestation in the Amazon is thought to increase malaria. However, some studies have found the opposite or no effect. Limitations of these studies include the use of annual data (ignoring transmission seasonality), coarse spatial scale, limited time series, and often neglect frontier malaria dynamics.
Diarrhea is a significant cause of morbidity among children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and is responsible for over 500 000 deaths per year. In many LMICs, informally trained healthcare providers are the first point of care for children with diarrhea. In Bangladesh, “village doctors” practice allopathic medicine with limited formal training and provide healthcare services to approximately two-thirds of Bangladesh’s population.
HIV/HBV coinfection is common in areas that are endemic for both viruses. In 2015, ∼2.7 million (7.4 %) of 36.7 million people living with HIV worldwide were infected with HBV, with 71 % (1.96 million) living in sub-Saharan Africa. Complications of chronic HBV infection like cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and death are associated with HBV replication
Interferon lambdas (IFN-λs) are crucial to control virus infections at mucosal surfaces. Interleukin-22 (IL-22) was reported to help IFN-λ control rotavirus infection in the intestinal epithelium of mice either by aiding in the induction of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) or by increasing cell proliferation thereby clearing virally infected cells. We investigated whether IL-22 and IFN-λs exhibit similar synergistic effects in human intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) models.
