Author summary In 2023, Vietnam experienced a large and severe outbreak of hand food and mouth disease in children. Our investigations showed that enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) subgenogroup B5, first emerg...

AbstractObjectives. We aimed to determine the effects of a 12-month antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme in two provincial-level general hospitals in

RSTMH founded our flagship journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 1908, a year after the society itself begun. In 2009 (a century later), RSTMH created Internation...

Background Distinguishing enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever from other causes of fever is challenging. The diagnostic accuracy of Typhoid Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT) are suboptimal but might im...

Compartmental models are widely used for dynamical systems where states are discrete, such as in infectious disease epidemiology with the so-called Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) framework...

Although the fifth-generation ECMWF reanalysis (ERA5) reanalysis dataset at 0.25º resolution and its land-specific product (ERA5-Land) at 0.1º resolution are widely used, they still remain too coarse ...

Scientific Reports - Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa

Detection of Immunity Gap before Measles Outbreak, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2024

We gave young scientists this prompt: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) is a significant cause of severe community-acquired infection, primarily in Asia. Here, the authors characterise the genetic profile, phylogenetic structure,...