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Emily Nightingale @esnightingale.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Pleased to say that the last paper from my PhD thesis is finally published in BMC Global and Public Health 🎉 🌏 Took a long while to get this one over the line, so thanks to all my co-authors for their commitment to the cause! rdcu.be/epER8

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Spatial variation in time to diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India

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Hannah Rickman @hannahrickman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New preprint (with all pre-print caveats!) tinyurl.com/589ffhu4 on Mtb infection risk by sex & age. Men are at higher risk of #tuberculosis v women- but unclear how much driven by higher infection vs progression to disease. We meta-analysed Mtb immunoreactivity surveys to find out more🧵 #tbsky

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Sex Differences in the Risk of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Population-Based Immunoreactivity Surveys

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1·25 million people globally in 2023. Men have a 1·7-fold higher TB incidence than women, but it is not known to what exten

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Emily Nightingale @esnightingale.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

More recently I've been thinking a lot about surveillance processes and elimination - whether we have the right statistical tools to maximise the potential of innovative approaches such as wastewater surveillance.

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Emily Nightingale @esnightingale.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanks to @statsforbios.bsky.social for sharing our paper that's finally out! This is work from my PhD with @grahammedley.bsky.social and Oliver Brady, exploring the accuracy of spatial disaggregation for understanding local-level incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in northeast India.

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