Do We Still Need to Quarantine With COVID? Published by MedPage Today on December, 2 2022 For COVID, "the advice is certainly still to isolate," says MCIDT Director Dr. Aubree Gordon. The United States is still seeing some 300 deaths per day from COVID, "which is a...
Active Surveillance With Seroprevalence-based Infection Rates Indicates Racial Disparities With Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 Requiring Hospitalization in Mississippi, March 2020-February 2021
Active Surveillance With Seroprevalence-based Infection Rates Indicates Racial Disparities With Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 Requiring Hospitalization in Mississippi, March 2020-February 2021 Published by The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on September 2022 Sponsored by...
This Winter It’s a Battle of the Viruses
This Winter It's a Battle of the Viruses Published by the New York Times on November 28th, 2022 "Heading into winter, pediatricians and hospitals are reporting an influx of young patients with RSV. Flu cases are spiking. But why did these viruses disappear in the...
Multimorbidity and Mental Health Trajectories Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Findings From the COVID-19 Coping Study
Multimorbidity and Mental Health Trajectories Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Findings From the COVID-19 Coping Study Published by Innovation in Aging on July 30, 2022 Dr. Lindsay Kobayashi and MCIDT affiliate Dr....
The Gut Bacterial Community Potentiates Clostridioides difficile Infection Severity
The Gut Bacterial Community Potentiates Clostridioides difficile Infection Severity Published by American Society for Microbiology on July 20, 2022 Dr. Pat Schloss and MCIDT faculty affiliate Dr. Vincent Young examined the relationship between gut bacterial community...
Respirable Clofazimine Particles Produced by Air Jet Milling Technique Are Efficacious in Treatment of BALB/c Mice with Chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Respirable Clofazimine Particles Produced by Air Jet Milling Technique Are Efficacious in Treatment of BALB/c Mice with Chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Published by American Society for Microbiology on August 9, 2022 Interested in more tuberculosis...
Optimization of Benzoxazinorifamycins to Minimize hPXR Activation for the Treatment of Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection
Optimization of Benzoxazinorifamycins to Minimize hPXR Activation for the Treatment of Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection Published by ACS Infectious Diseases on June 30, 2022 Tuberculosis is a leading infectious disease and cause of death. Folks with HIV are...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against omicron (B.1.1.529) variant infection and hospitalisation in patients taking immunosuppressive medications: a retrospective cohort study
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against omicron (B.1.1.529) variant infection and hospitalisation in patients taking immunosuppressive medications: a retrospective cohort study Published by The Lancet Rheumatology on August 16, 2022 Biostatistics research professor Dr....
A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu, R.S.V. and COVID May Collide This Winter, Experts Say
A 'Tripledemic'? Flu, R.S.V. and COVID May Collide This Winter, Experts Day Published by The New York Times on October 23, 2022 “Most of the time [the flu] doesn’t make you very sick, but sometimes it can,” said MCIDT Director and Associate Professor of Epidemiology,...
Why the Spectral Radius? An intuition-building introduction to the basic reproduction number
Why the Spectral Radius? An intuition-building introduction to the basic reproduction number Published by Springer on August 5, 2022 Dr. Andrew Brouwer of the University of Michigan Epidemiology Department explains the math behind the next generation method, why it...