Tribute to Horst R. Thieme on the occasion of his 60th birthday by Hal L. Smith

“…Horst Thieme has been, over a period of thirty years, one of themost productive scientists in Mathematical Biology, with numerousworks on subjects centered on population biology and transmissionand control of infectious disease. He has provided a number ofrigorous mathematical tools for the study of structured populations,the problem of biological invasion, and the limiting behavior ofepidemic and other population models. …”
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A Study of a Diseased Prey-Predator Model with Refuge in Prey and Harvesting from Predator by Ahmed Sami Abdulghafour, Raid Kamel Naji

“…In this paper, a mathematical model of a prey-predator system with infectious disease in the prey population is proposed and studied. …”
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Moving “Forward” in Plasmodium Genetics through a Transposon-Based Approach by Bharath Balu

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Succinate supplementation alleviates liver cancer by inhibiting the FN1/SQLE axis-mediated cholesterol biosynthesis by Shuyuan Chang, Ayaka Tomii, Yunfei Zhou, Xun Yang, Yihong Dong, Jun Yan, Aodi Wu, Yumeng Wang, Qingxin Zhang, Hongxue Meng, Lei Yu, Wei Sun, Dabin Liu

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GGCX promotes Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus adaption to interspecies receptor binding by Jiahui Zou, Meijun Jiang, Rong Xiao, Huimin Sun, Hailong Liu, Thomas Peacock, Shaoyu Tu, Tong Chen, Jinli Guo, Yaxin Zhao, Wendy Barclay, Shengsong Xie, Hongbo Zhou

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Camel milk is a neglected source of brucellosis among rural Arab communities by Peter Holloway, Matthew Gibson, Tanja Holloway, Iain Pickett, Brittany Crook, Jacqueline M. Cardwell, Stephen Nash, Imadidden Musallam, Bilal Al-Omari, Ahmad Al-Majali, Wail Hayajneh, Ehab Abu-Basha, Punam Mangtani, Javier Guitian

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Cutaneous Anthrax: What is the Hallmark? by Dhani Redhono Harioputro, Arie Kusumawardani, Iin Novita, Evi Nurhayatun, Rahajeng N Tunjungputri, Erni Juwita Nelwan

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Evaluation of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Risk Factors by Javad Golmirzaei, Shole Namazi, Shahrokh Amiri, Shahram Zare, Najme Rastikerdar, Ali Akbar Hesam, Zahra Rahami, Fatemeh Ghasemian, Seyyed Shojaeddin Namazi, Abbas Paknahad, Forugh Mahmudi, Hamidreza Mahboobi, Tahereh Khorgoei, Bahareh Niknejad, Fatemeh Dehghani, Shima Asadi

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Circulating Irisin Levels in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jie Hu, Yani Ke, Fangping Wu, Shan Liu, Conghua Ji, Xiaohong Zhu, Ying Zhang

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Shorter versus longer durations of antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Mark Loeb, John Basmaji, Ya Gao, Maryam Ghadimi, Layla Bakaa, Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano, Saad Asif, Aninditee Das

“…Introduction Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), frequently encountered in both outpatient and inpatient settings, is the leading cause of infectious disease-related mortality. While equipoise regarding the optimal duration of antimicrobial therapy to treat CAP remains, recent studies suggest shorter durations of therapy may achieve optimal outcomes. …”
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Considering best practice standards for routine whole-genome sequencing for TB care and control by J.T. Denholm, G. de Vries, R. Anthony, E. Robinson, M. Backx, I.F. Laurenson, A.L. Seagar, H. Modestil, L. Trieu, J.S. Meissner, D.H.L. Ng, J.Y. Tay, H.H. Lin, R. Lee, V. Sintchenko, B.J. Marais, E.J. Donnan

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‘Dynamic zero-COVID’ policy and viral clearance during an omicron wave in Tianjin, China: a city-wide retrospective observational study by Qi Wu, Yan Xie, Tao Cheng, Junping Wu, Wentao Jiang, Lixia Shi, Xiaolong Liu, Yu Hu, Yahui Feng, Hongxia Shao, Xiaowen Gong, Zhen Song, Saibing Qi, Xueou Liu, Qiujin Shen, Junren Chen

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Comparison of air-liquid interface transwell and airway organoid models for human respiratory virus infection studies by Camilla T. Ekanger, Camilla T. Ekanger, Camilla T. Ekanger, Nilima Dinesh Kumar, Rosanne W. Koutstaal, Fan Zhou, Martin Beukema, Joanna Waldock, Simon P. Jochems, Noa Mulder, Cécile A. C. M. van Els, Cécile A. C. M. van Els, Othmar G. Engelhardt, Nathalie Mantel, Kevin P. Buno, Karl Albert Brokstad, Karl Albert Brokstad, Agnete S. T. Engelsen, Agnete S. T. Engelsen, Rebecca J. Cox, Rebecca J. Cox, Barbro N. Melgert, Barbro N. Melgert, Anke L. W. Huckriede, Puck B. van Kasteren

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Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of the Invaplex_AR-Detox <i>Shigella</i> Vaccine Co-Administered with the dmLT Adjuvant in Dutch and Zambian Adults: Study Protoc... by Geert V. T. Roozen, Nsofwa Sukwa, Masuzyo Chirwa, Jessica A. White, Marcus Estrada, Nicole Maier, Kevin R. Turbyfill, Renee M. Laird, Akamol E. Suvarnapunya, Aicha Sayeh, Flavia D’Alessio, Candice Marion, Laura Pattacini, Marie-Astrid Hoogerwerf, Rajagopal Murugan, Manuela Terrinoni, Jan R. Holmgren, Sodiomon B. Sirima, Sophie Houard, Michelo Simuyandi, Meta Roestenberg

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Single Dose of Attenuated Vaccinia Viruses Expressing H5 Hemagglutinin Affords Rapid and Long-Term Protection Against Lethal Infection with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5N1... by Fumihiko Yasui, Keisuke Munekata, Tomoko Fujiyuki, Takeshi Kuraishi, Kenzaburo Yamaji, Tomoko Honda, Sumiko Gomi, Misako Yoneda, Takahiro Sanada, Koji Ishii, Yoshihiro Sakoda, Hiroshi Kida, Shosaku Hattori, Chieko Kai, Michinori Kohara

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Immune Evasion Strategies of Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Parasites by Hong Zheng, Zhangping Tan, Wenyue Xu

“…Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito and leads to the development of the pre-erythrocytic and blood stages. …”
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On application of optimal control to SEIR normalized models: Pros and cons by Maria do Rosário de Pinho, Filipa Nunes Nogueira

“…We use optimal control to control by vaccination the spread of a generic infectious disease described by a normalized model with $L^1$ cost. …”
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Helicobacter pylori: Genomic Insight into the Host-Pathogen Interaction by Kathryn P. Haley, Jennifer A. Gaddy

“…The advent of genomic analyses has revolutionized the study of human health. Infectious disease research in particular has experienced an explosion of bacterial genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data complementing the phenotypic methods employed in traditional bacteriology. …”
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Serological Evidence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in an Indigenous North American Population by GY Minuk, A Sun, DF Sun, J Uhanova, LE Nicolle, B Larke, A Giulivi

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The effect of patterns of infectiousness on epidemic size by Luis F. Gordillo, Stephen A. Marion, Priscilla E. Greenwood

“…In the course of an infectious disease in a population, each infected individual presents a different pattern of progress through the disease,producing a corresponding pattern of infectiousness. …”
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