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Unveiling time in dose-response models to infer host susceptibility to pathogens
Pessoa, Delphine; Souto-Maior, Caetano; Gjini, Erida; Lopes, Joao S; Ceña, Bruno; Codeço, Cláudia T; Gomes, M Gabriela MThe biological effects of interventions to control infectious diseases typically depend on the intensity of pathogen challenge. As much as the levels of natural pathogen circulation vary over time and geographical location, the development of invariant efficacy measures is of major importance, even if only indirectly inferrable. Here a method is introduced to assess host susceptibility to pathogens, and applied...
Interpreting measures of tuberculosis transmission: a case study on the Portugu...
Lopes, Joao; Rodrigues, Paula; Pinho, Suani TR; Andrade, Roberto FS; Duarte, Raquel; Gomes, M Gabriela MTuberculosis remains a high burden for Human society despite considerable investments in its control. Unique features in the history of infection and transmission dynamics of tuberculosis pose serious limitations on the direct interpretation of surveillance data and call for models that incorporate latent processes and simulate specific interventions.
Controlling malaria using livestock-based interventions: a one health approach
Franco, Ana O; Gomes, M Gabriela M; Rowland, Mark; Coleman, Paul G; Davies, Clive RWhere malaria is transmitted by zoophilic vectors, two types of malaria control strategies have been proposed based on animals: using livestock to divert vector biting from people (zooprophylaxis) or as baits to attract vectors to insecticide sources (insecticide-treated livestock). Opposing findings have been obtained on malaria zooprophylaxis, and despite the success of an insecticide-treated livestock trial ...
inTB - a data integration platform for molecular and clinical epidemiological a...
Soares, Patrícia; Alves, Renato J; Abecasis, Ana B; Penha-Gonçalves, Carlos; Gomes, M Gabriela M; Pereira-Leal, José BTuberculosis is currently the second highest cause of death from infectious diseases worldwide. The emergence of multi and extensive drug resistance is threatening to make tuberculosis incurable. There is growing evidence that the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may have important clinical consequences. Therefore, combining genetic, clinical and socio-demographic data is critical to understand t...
Comparative analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae transmission in Portuguese and...
Pessoa, Delphine; Hoti, Fabian; Syrjänen, Ritva; Sá-Leão, Raquel; Kaijalainen, Tarja; Gomes, M Gabriela M; Auranen, KariDay-care centre (DCC) attendees play a central role in maintaining the circulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) in the population. The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage is highest in DCC attendees but varies across countries and is found to be consistently lower in Finland than in Portugal. We compared key parameters underlying pneumococcal transmission in DCCs to understand which of these contr...