Congratulations to members of the Department who have recently had their research findings published. Here’s our round-up of the latest publication successes.
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| Title | Canonical journal title | Publication type | Authors OR Authors/Contributors | Publication date |
| “It empowered me to move my timeline forward”: first person thematically analysed accounts of a novel behavioural intervention to support status-sharing in young adults with perinatally acquired HIV in UK and Uganda | AIDS Care: psychological and socio-medical aspects of AIDS-HIV | Journal article | O’Keeffe A, Price J, Seeley J, Gnan G, Musiime V, Fidler S, Frize G, Uwizera A, Foster C, Evangeli M | 17/03/2025 |
| 15 Minute Consultation: Vaccine Hesitancy – Answering Common Questions | Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition | Journal article | Fitzgerald F, Mistry R | 12/05/2025 |
| 67 Dynamic changes in throat swab positivity and Streptococcus pyogenes genotypes: Implications for outbreak prediction | Clinical Infection in Practice | Journal article | Mills EA, Vieira A, Zhu N, Wan Y, S’gro V, Mok KY, Patvi FZ, Reeves L, Chow Y, Lamagni T, Coelho J, Sriskandan S | 01/03/2025 |
| A flexible framework for minimal biomarker signature discovery from clinical omics studies without library size normalisation | PLOS Digital Health | Journal article | Rawlinson D, Zhou C, Kaforou M, Cao K-AL, Coin LJM | 26/03/2025 |
| A review of post COVID syndrome pathophysiology, clinical presentation and management in children and young people | Paediatric Respiratory Reviews | Journal article | Johnston R, Sonnappa S, Goddings A-L, Whittaker E, Segal TY | 01/03/2025 |
| A scoping review and modelling of predictors of an abnormal Thompson score in term neonates in low-resource settings | Scientific Reports | Journal article | Khan N, Mugwagwa E, Cortina Borja M, Catherall E, Fitzgerald F, Chimhuya S, Chimhini G, Gannon H, Crehan C, Mangiza M, Heys M | 10/04/2025 |
| A single amino acid in the Salmonella effector SarA/SteE triggers supraphysiological activation of STAT3 for anti-inflammatory gene expression | Cell Reports | Journal article | Gaggioli MR, Jones AG, Panagi I, Washington EJ, Loney RE, Muench JH, Foster MW, Brennan RG, Thurston TLM, Ko DC | 22/04/2025 |
| A sort and sequence approach to dissect heterogeneity of response to a self-amplifying RNA vector in a novel human muscle cell line | Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids | Journal article | Barton RD, Tregoning JS, Wang Z, Gonçalves-Carneiro D, Patel R, McKay PF, Shattock RJ | 11/03/2025 |
| A survey weighted analysis of HPTN 071 (PopART) primary outcome of HIV incidence | AIDS Research and Therapy | Journal article | Skalland TM, de Dieu Tapsoba J, Zangeneh SZ, Floyd S, Ayles H, Bock P, Fidler S, Eshleman SH, Hayes RJ, Donnell D | 07/03/2025 |
| Absolute quantification of rare gene targets in limited samples using crude lysate and ddPCR | Scientific Reports | Journal article | Asquith R, Kaur C, Adams S | 21/03/2025 |
| Acceptability of a 250 mg levofloxacin formulation in children receiving TB preventive treatment | IJTLD OPEN | Journal article | Purchase SE, Brigden J, Seddon JA, Martinson NA, Fairlie L, Staples S, Poswa A, Duong T, Schaaf HS, Hesseling AC | 01/03/2025 |
| Addressing the challenge of antimicrobial resistance | Communications Medicine | Journal article | Rawson T, Lamorde M, Moore L | 06/03/2025 |
| Antibiotic chemoprophylaxis for close contacts of invasive group A streptococcus in community settings: Evidence review | Journal of Infection | Journal article | Watts V, Usdin M, Mearkle R, Sriskandan S, Cordery R, Millership S, Saliba V, Edmundson C, Pai A, Brown CS, Balasegaram S, Lamagni T, Decraene V | 01/04/2025 |
| Antiviral treatment and risk of hearing loss in asymptomatic and mild symptomatic infants with congenital cytomegalovirus | The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | Journal article | Villaverde S, Pedrero-Tomé R, Papaevangelou V, Syridou G, Karagiannidou S, Lyall H, Payne H, Frick MA, Soler-Palacín P, Baquero-Artigao F, Rodríguez-Molino P, Fortuny-Guasch C, Rios-Barnés M, Sánchez-Mateos M, Saavedra-Lozano J, Bringué X, Moliner E, Castells L, Muga O, Vives-Oños I, Gkentzi D, Lombardi G, Tagarro A, Colino E, Couceiro JA, Rojo P, de Vergas J, Blázquez-Gamero D | 01/03/2025 |
| Author Correction: FANCD2–FANCI surveys DNA and recognizes double- to single-stranded junctions | Nature | Journal article | Alcón P, Kaczmarczyk AP, Ray KK, Liolios T, Guilbaud G, Sijacki T, Shen Y, McLaughlin SH, Sale JE, Knipscheer P, Rueda DS, Passmore LA | 06/03/2025 |
| Bacille Calmette-Guérin-specific IgG titres among infants born to mothers with active tuberculosis disease in Uganda | BMC Immunology | Journal article | Sitenda D, Ssekamatte P, Nakavuma R, Kyazze AP, Bongomin F, Baluku JB, Nabatanzi R, Kibirige D, Wilkinson RJ, Nakimuli A, Cose S, Andia-Biraro I | 04/03/2025 |
| Cardiometabolic Biomarkers and Systemic Inflammation in US Adolescents and Young Adults With Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Population-Based Cohort Study | Open Forum Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Magodoro IM, Ntusi NAB, Jao J, Zar HJ, Claggett BL, Siedner MJ, Wilkinson KA, Wilkinson RJ | 27/03/2025 |
| Case series of the first five human infections with monkeypox virus clade Ib and report on the public health response, United Kingdom, October to November 2024 | Eurosurveillance | Journal article | Alvi MI, Kliner M, Welfare W, Gordon NC, Thomas S, Padfield S, Emmett HE, Heinsbroek E, Hughes GJ, Groves N, Gallagher E, Pullan S, Belfield A, Houlihan CF, Rampling T, O’Hara G, Tunbridge A, Dunning J, Whittaker E, Alonso A, Beadsworth M, Payne BAI, Chand M, Hopkins S, Armstrong G | 13/03/2025 |
| Caspase cleavage of influenza A virus M2 disrupts M2-LC3 interaction and regulates virion production | EMBO Reports | Journal article | Figueras-Novoa C, Akutsu M, Murata D, Weston A, Jiang M, Montaner B, Dubois C, Shenoy A, Beale R | 03/03/2025 |
| Comment on: Resistance profiles of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in a large centre in England: are we already losing cefiderocol? | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | Journal article | Rawson TM, Al-Hassan M, Brzeska-Trafny I, Morkowska A, Jauneikaite E, Saman R, Donaldson H, Davies F | 12/03/2025 |
| Comparative assessment of macrophage responses and antileishmanial efficacy in dynamic vs. Static culture systems utilizing chitosan-based formulations | PLoS One | Journal article | Riezk A, O’Keeffe A, Van Bocxlaer K, Yardley V, Croft SL | 11/03/2025 |
| Comparison of pregnancy outcomes between people with perinatally acquired HIV, horizontally acquired HIV and those without HIV | AIDS | Journal article | Shah S, Short C-E, Taylor G, Lyall H, Foster C | 01/04/2025 |
| Designing synthetic microbial communities with the capacity to upcycle fermentation byproducts to increase production yields | Trends in Biotechnology | Journal article | Rafieenia R, Klemm C, Hapeta P, Fu J, García MG, Ledesma-Amaro R | 01/03/2025 |
| Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest X-ray Computer-Aided Detection Software for Detection of Prevalent and Incident Tuberculosis in Household Contacts | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Macpherson L, Kik S, Quartagno M, Lakay F, Jaftha M, Yende N, Galant S, Aziz S, Daroowala R, Court R, Taliep A, Serole K, Goliath RT, Davies NO, Jackson A, Douglass E, Sossen B, Mukasa S, Thienemann F, Song T, Ruhwald M, Wilkinson RJ, Coussens AK, Esmail H, Imaging of TB Household Contacts Grp CE | 15/03/2025 |
| Does anticancer therapy directly contribute to antimicrobial resistance? | The Lancet Microbe | Journal article | Sharma I, Wilson RC, Zhu N, Rawson TM | 01/03/2025 |
| Effectiveness and safety of shortened intensive treatment for children with tuberculous meningitis (SURE): a protocol for a phase 3 randomised controlled trial evaluating 6 months of antituberculosis therapy and 8 weeks of aspirin in Asian and African children with tuberculous meningitis | BMJ Open | Journal article | Huynh J, Chabala C, Sharma S, Choo L, Singh V, Sankhyan N, Mujuru H, Nguyen N, Trinh TH, Phan PH, Nhung NV, Nkole KL, Sirari T, Mutata C, Frangou E, Griffiths A, Wobudeya E, Muller C, Santana S, Kestelyn E, Nguyen LV, Nguyen T, Tran D, Seddon JA, Turkova A, Abarca-Salazar S, Basu-Roy R, Thwaites GE, Crook A, Anderson ST, Gibb DM | 01/04/2025 |
| Engineered SH3-Derived Sherpabodies Function as a Modular Platform for Targeted T Cell Immunotherapy | Cancer Research | Journal article | Hernández-López RA, Kesti T, Mäkelä AR, Zhao Z, Yu W, Tonai Y, Monzo HJ, Kalander K, Leppä S, Ojala PM, Lim WA, Saksela K | 15/05/2025 |
| Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making | The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health | Journal article | Whittaker E, Sinha R, Riordan A, Alonso A, Emonts M, Owens S, Cohen J, Mahoney S, Porter D, Larru B, Segal S, Brierley J | 01/03/2025 |
| Gender medicine and the Cass Review: why medicine and the law make poor bedfellows | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Journal article | Cheung CR, Abbruzzese E, Lockhart E, Maconochie IK, Kingdon CC | 19/03/2025 |
| Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Journal article | Penadés JR, Seed KD, Chen J, Bikard D, Rocha EPC | 27/03/2025 |
| How COVID-19 affected academic publishing: a three-year study of 17 million research papers | International Journal of Epidemiology | Journal article | Whitaker M, Rodrigues S, Cooke G, Virlon B, Donnelly C, Ward H, Elliott P, Chadeau M | 27/05/2025 |
| How to develop a controlled human infection model for Clostridioides difficile | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | Journal article | Hensen ADO, Vehreschild MJGT, Gerding DN, Krut O, Chen W, Young VB, Tzipori S, Solbach P, Gibani MM, Chiu C, de Keersmaecker SCJ, Dasyam D, Morel S, Devaster J-M, Corti N, Kuijper EJ, Roestenberg M, Smits WK | 01/03/2025 |
| Imagine every child healthy: Transforming paediatric migrant health through participation and collaboration in Europe | Acta Paediatrica: promoting child health | Journal article | Wiemker V, Nijman RG, Brandenberger J | 01/03/2025 |
| Improving ototoxicity monitoring in patients receiving aminoglycosides using a novel digital approach: a quality improvement project | BMJ Open Quality | Journal article | Cheong J, Boreland S, Shattock E, Bowman E, Belkarty B, Jones A, Felton I, Ukor E-F, Stowell J, Jose RJ, Madge S, Wilkins J, Frost E, Premachandra P, Loebinger M, Simmonds N, Drobniewski F, Shah A | 15/04/2025 |
| Integrated histopathology, spatial and single cell transcriptomics resolve cellular drivers of early and late alveolar damage in COVID-19 | Nature Communications | Journal article | Lee JTH, Barnett SN, Roberts K, Ashwin H, Milross L, Cho J-W, Huseynov A, Woodhams B, Aivazidis A, Li T, Majo J, Chaves P, Lee M, Miranda AMA, Jablonska Z, Arena V, Hanley B, Osborn M, Uhlmann V, Xu X-N, McLean GR, Teichmann SA, Randi AM, Filby A, Kaye PM, Fisher AJ, Hemberg M, Noseda M, Bayraktar OA | 10/03/2025 |
| Leveraging nutritional rehabilitation and tuberculosis programmes to tackle tuberculosis and severe acute malnutrition in children | The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health | Journal article | Vonasek BJ, Marcy O, Armour-Marshall J, Casenghi M, Cazes C, Chisti MJ, d’Elbée M, Huerga H, Hewison C, Lancioni CL, Lungu PS, McCollum ED, Musiime V, Mvalo T, Seddon JA, Steenhoff AP, Thomas TA, Tovar M, Vasiliu A, Garcia-Prats A, Chabala C | 01/05/2025 |
| Multi-scale characterisation and damage analysis of 3D braided composites under off-axis tensile loading | Composites Science and Technology | Journal article | Song X, Zhou J, Wang J, Bai L, Yang X, Xue J, Zhang D, Zhang S, Chen X, Guan Z, Cantwell WJ | 01/03/2025 |
| Neonatal Sepsis in Low- and Middle-income Countries Where Are We Now? |
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | Journal article | Fitzgerald F, Dramowski A, Bolton L, Bekker A | 13/03/2025 |
| Next-Generation Urinary LAM Assays-Are We There Yet? | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Gupta-Wright A, Broger T, Yerlikaya S, Denkinger CM | 25/03/2025 |
| Optimising adolescents and young adults’ utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Chad: a sensemaking approach | BMJ Global Health | Journal article | Bedingar E, Paningar F, Bedingar N, Mbaidoum E, Ngaradoum N, Atun R, Yousafzai A | 01/03/2025 |
| Parental involvement in infection prevention and control in low- and middle-income country neonatal units: a scoping review protocol | BMJ Open | Journal article | Davidson L, Kitikiti C, Blencowe H, Fitzgerald F, Moxon S, Chimhini G, Chingono R | 01/04/2025 |
| Peptide selectivity of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors differs with allotypic variation in HLA class I | Journal of Immunology | Journal article | Saunders PM, Illing PT, Coin L, Wong SC, Oates CVL, Purcell AW, Brooks AG | 24/03/2025 |
| Plasma metabolomic signatures for copy number variants and COVID-19 risk loci in Northern Finland populations | Scientific Reports | Journal article | De T, Jarvelin M-R | 16/04/2025 |
| Portable molecular diagnostic platform for rapid point-of-care detection of mpox and other diseases |
Nature Communications | Journal article | Cavuto ML, Malpartida Cardenas K, Pennisi I, Pond M, Mirza S, Moser N, Comer M, Stokes I, Eke L, Lant S, Szostak K, Miglietta L, Stringer O, Mantikas K-T, Sumner R, Bolt F, Sriskandan S, Holmes A, Georgiou P, Ulaeto D, Maluquer de Motes C, Rodriguez Manzano J | 28/05/2025 |
| Predictive Modelling of nephrotoxicity from vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam (VPT) combination and vancomycin as monotherapy: an artificial intelligence (AI) Approach | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Lee DW, Bolton MWJ, Wilson MRC, Georgiou PP, Holmes PAH, Zhu DN, Rawson DTM | 01/03/2025 |
| Primary efficacy endpoints in phase 3 non-inferiority trials to establish new tuberculosis treatment regimens should only include microbiological outcomes | The Lancet Microbe | Journal article | Yates TA, Grint DJ | 01/03/2025 |
| Rebuilding trust and equity in Syria’s health system: a governance-driven transition | The Lancet | Journal article | Alkhalil M, Abbara A, Dashash M, Sullivan R, Aboumayaleh M, Ekzayez A, Kharrat Z, Obaydo RH, Alzoubi Z, Alghatrif M, Fouad FM | 01/03/2025 |
| Reply to: About proteins of a siphophage tail tip complex reverting to their pre-ejection fold after DNA ejection | Nature Communications | Journal article | Ayala R, Moiseenko AV, Chen T-H, Kulikov EE, Golomidova AK, Orekhov PS, Street MA, Sokolova OS, Letarov AV, Wolf M | 28/05/2025 |
| Research exposure in UK paediatric training: how do we address the gaps-experience from the London REACH network | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Journal article | Loucaides E, Carr D, Ghosh N, Habermann S, Hartzenberg R, Lawson G, Lin N, Lundy C, Robertson H, Sturrock S, Thompson R | 24/03/2025 |
| Response to comment about article ‘changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study’ | EClinicalMedicine | Journal article | Chiu C, Hampshire A | 01/03/2025 |
| Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times | Disease Models and Mechanisms | Journal article | Briscoe J, Franklin CE, Gorelick DA, Patton EE, Way M | 01/03/2025 |
| Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times | Development (Cambridge) | Journal article | Briscoe J, Franklin CE, Gorelick DA, Patton EE, Way M | 15/03/2025 |
| Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times | Journal of Cell Science | Journal article | Briscoe J, Franklin CE, Gorelick DA, Patton EE, Way M | 15/03/2025 |
| Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times | The Journal of Experimental Biology | Journal article | Briscoe J, Franklin CE, Gorelick DA, Patton EE, Way M | 15/03/2025 |
| Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times. | Biology Open | Journal article | Briscoe J, Franklin CE, Gorelick DA, Patton EE, Way M | 15/03/2025 |
| Targeted nasal delivery of LNP-mRNAs aerosolised by Rayleigh breakup technology | International Journal of Pharmaceutics | Journal article | Li H-Y, Paramanandana A, Kim SY, Granger L, Raimi-Abraham BT, Shattock R, Makatsoris C, Forbes B | 01/03/2025 |
| The early warning and response systems in Syria: A functionality and alert threshold assessment | IJID Regions | Journal article | Alhaffar MHDBA, Abbara A, Almhawish N, Tarnas MC, AlFaruh Y, Eriksson A | 01/03/2025 |
| The effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on people living with <scp>HIV</scp> | HIV Medicine | Journal article | Walker SH, Grierson J, Sullivan A, Alagaratnam J | 01/03/2025 |
| The Measurement of Vital Signs in Pediatric Patients by Lifelight Software in Comparison to the Standard of Care: Protocol for the VISION-Junior Observational Study | JMIR Research Protocols | Journal article | Misra G, Wegerif S, Fairlie L, Kapoor M, Fok J, Salt G, Halbert J, Maconochie I, Mullen N | 29/04/2025 |
| The N-terminal ELR+ motif of the neutrophil attractant CXCL8 confers susceptibility to degradation by the Group A Streptococcal protease, SpyCEP | Journal of Biological Chemistry | Journal article | Giblin SP, McKenna S, Matthews S, Sriskandan S, Pease JE | 25/03/2025 |
| Tracking Nongenetic Evolution from Primary to Metastatic ccRCC: TRACERx Renal | Cancer Discovery | Journal article | Fernández-Sanromán Á, Fendler A, Tan BJY, Cattin A-L, Spencer C, Thompson R, Au L, Lobon I, Pallikonda HA, Martin A, Byrne F, Franz A, Mikolajczak A, Rahman H, Tippu Z, Shepherd STC, Feng H, Deng D, Rowan A, Pickering L, Furness AJS, Young K, Nicol D, Rudman SM, O’Brien T, Edmonds K, Chandra A, Hazell S, Litchfield K, Kassiotis G, Larkin J, Turajlic S | 03/03/2025 |
| Tuberculosis in adult migrants in Europe: a TBnet consensus statement | European Respiratory Journal | Journal article | Kunst H, Lange B, Hovardovska O, Bockey A, Zenner D, Andersen AB, Hargreaves S, Pareek M, Friedland JS, Wejse C, Bothamley G, Guglielmetti L, Chesov D, Tiberi S, Matteelli A, Mandalakas AM, Heyckendorf J, Eimer J, Malhotra A, Zamora J, Vasiliu A, Lange C | 01/03/2025 |
| Utilising routinely collected clinical data through time series deep learning to improve identification of bacterial bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study. | The Lancet: Digital Health | Journal article | Ming DK, Vasikasin V, Rawson TM, Georgiou P, Davies FJ, Holmes AH, Hernandez B | 01/03/2025 |