Government estimates that one in 60 adults in Fiji now living with HIV, as escalating use of methamphetamine fuels ‘epidemic’

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Veterinary Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work is connected with veterinary science (ideally in research aligned wi...

The application portal for the ETH AI Center Fellowship Programs is now closed. The deadline for submitting reference letters is 23:59 CET on November 14, 2025.

Strengthening Cambridge's leadership in bacteriology research Bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance remain among the most pressing global health challenges of our time. At Cambridge, the De...

Genetic variation among microbial strains of the same species can profoundly influence their phenotypes, ecological functions, and impacts on human health. Traditionally, the relative abundance of a s...

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

Discover the August 2026 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Volume 53, featuring peer-reviewed articles, case studies, and the latest research findings.

Whole genome sequencing of pathogens is costly to implement, and partial sequencing sacrifices information. Here, the authors present Phylo-Plex, a method for identifying information-rich genomic regi...

Nature Communications - Whole genome sequencing of pathogens is costly to implement, and partial sequencing sacrifices information. Here, the authors present Phylo-Plex, a method for identifying...

The Atlas is a first of its kind global resource that brings together prevalence data on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) collected in 2010 or later. ...

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Targeted metagenomics, where samples are enriched for multiple organisms of interest using oligonucleotide probes, is a highly efficient sequencing methodology that is becoming standard practice for g...

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

IntroductionThe Clinical ResEArch Training fellowship with Industry involVEment (CREATIVE fellowship) is a multi-country, collaborative international clinical research capacity strengthening scheme in

SUMMARYChildcare outside the home is a common experience for many children in high-income countries. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases—not just for the child bu...

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a 3-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2026.The award will cover a tax-free stipend

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This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls

Phoebe Ashley-Norman of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Amber Barton about the neglected tropical disease, yaws. Efforts to eradicate yaws were first made in the 1950s through a WHO and UNICEF campaign t...

By sequencing the bacteria that cause the neglected disease yaws, researchers have found that while mass treatment can be successful, it can cause resistant strains to develop. They suggest that publi...

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important pathogen of humans and animals. In the past five years, increasing reports of convergent strains that carry both…

Yaws, a neglected tropical disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue (T p pertenue), has evaded eradication, in part due to a high prop…

By sequencing the bacteria that cause the neglected disease yaws, researchers have found that while mass treatment can be successful, it can cause resistant strains to develop. They suggest that publi...

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