Public health officials discouraged travel and non-household gatherings for Thanksgiving, but data suggests that travel increased over the holidays. The objective of this analysis was to assess associations between holiday gatherings and SARS-CoV-2 …
**Background** Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing is critical for monitoring case counts, early detection and containment of infection, clinical management, and surveillance of variants. However, community-based …
**Background** People who inject drugs (PWID) account for some of the most explosive human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics globally. While individual drivers of infection are well understood, less is known about …
**Background:** Implementing effective interventions for hepatitis C virus (HCV) requires detailed understanding of local transmission dynamics and geospatial spread. Little is known about HCV phylodynamics, particularly among high-burden populations …
**Objective:** To characterize the SARS-CoV-2 testing cascade and associated barriers in three US states. **Methods:** We recruited participants from Florida, Illinois, and Maryland (~1000/state) for an online survey September 16 - October 15, 2020. …
**Background:** Current mitigation strategies for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rely on the population-wide adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Monitoring the adoption of NPIs and their associations with …
**Background** Data from high-income countries suggest increasing hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence/incidence among HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM), but limited data derive from low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). **Methods** We …
About 20–30% of people infected with Chagas disease present with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC), the most serious and frequent manifestation of the disease, while others remain asymptomatic and often do not experience Chagas-specific mortality. …
**Introduction:** Trypanosoma cruzi (Tc) infection is usually acquired in childhood in endemic areas, leading to Chagas disease, which progresses to Chagas cardiomyopathy in 20–30% of infected individuals over decades. The pathogenesis of Chagas …
The adult *Taenia solium*, the pork tapeworm, usually lives as a single worm in the small intestine of humans, its only known definitive host. Mechanisms of genetic variation in *T. solium* are poorly understood. Using three microsatellite markers …