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

We observed that individuals living outside of known endemic foci experienced longer delays to diagnosis, suggesting that pursuing efficiency with increasingly targeted surveillance effort may allow sporadic cases in peripheral areas to perpetuate transmission undetected 🔎

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

Visceral leishmaniasis can be challenging to diagnose, meaning people can suffer symptoms and perpetuate transmission for months before accessing treatment. We explored how such delays can vary not only by individual characteristics but also over space, relative to where interventions are targeted 🎯

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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

Estimating village incidence using a disaggregation approach was no better than simply applying the observed areal rates to each constituent village, suggesting that patterns on this spatial scale really need to be understood from data collected directly at that level.

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

This was a rare opportunity to compare disaggregation estimates against data observed at the finer scale, but we found that the village-targeted surveillance process for VL meant that accuracy was still challenging to interpret.

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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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Emily Nightingale @esnightingale.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's a very recent development so don't worry! Been deliberating the value of joining after having freed myself from the "other" place... 🐤

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