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Andrea Rinaldo, Cristiano Trevisin, Lorenzo Mari, Damiano Pasetto, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre, Marino Gatto
The fate of ongoing infectious disease outbreaks is predicted through reproduction numbers, defining the long-term establishment of the infection, and epidemicity indices, tackling the reactivity of the infectious pool to new contagions. Prognostic metrics ...
2022A single nucleotide polymorphism determines constitutive versus inducible type VI secretion in Vibrio cholerae
Melanie Blokesch, Sandrine Stutzmann, Alexis Joseph Proutière, Loriane Bader, Milena Jadwiga Jaskolska
Vibrio cholerae is a well-studied human pathogen that is also a common inhabitant of marine habitats. In both environments, the bacterium is subject to interbacterial competition. A molecular nanomachine that is often involved in such competitive behavior ...
2022Single nucleotide polymorphism determines constitutive versus inducible type VI secretion in Vibrio cholerae
Melanie Blokesch, Sandrine Stutzmann, Alexis Joseph Proutière, Loriane Bader, Natalia Carolina Drebes Dorr, Milena Jadwiga Jaskolska
Vibrio cholerae is a well-studied human pathogen that is also a common inhabitant of marine habitats. In both environments, the bacterium is subject to interbacterial competition. A molecular nanomachine that is often involved in such competitive behavior ...
2022Inactivation mechanisms of influenza A virus within the micro-environment of expiratory bioaerosols
Athanasios Nenes, Tamar Kohn, Kalliopi Violaki, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Aline Laetitia Schaub, Shannon Christa David, Walter Hugentobler
Approximately 400’000 deaths are associated with influenza virus every year. Whilst currently dwarfed by the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza continues to circulate within the human population since the first recorded 1918 pandemic over a century ago. During t ...
2022The molecular treasure box of environmental Vibrio cholerae strains
Cholera pandemics have been affecting humankind for centuries and are still considered a major public health problem, especially in regions around the world with poor access to clean water and sanitation. Cholera pandemics are caused by a specific lineage ...
EPFL2021How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, public health scientists have produced a large and rapidly expanding body of literature that aims to answer critical questions, such as the proportion of the population in a geographic area that h ...
2021Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data
Florent Gérard Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová, Maria Refinetti, Indaco Biazzo, Giovanni Catania
Contact tracing is an essential tool to mitigate the impact of a pandemic, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to achieve efficient and scalable contact tracing in real time, digital devices can play an important role. While a lot of attention has been ...
2021Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions
Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever created, is a global initiative driven by volunteer contributions. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and mobility restrictions ensued across the globe, it was unclear whether contributions to Wikipedia would decr ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Who Is Listening? Spokesperson Effect on Communicating Social and Physical Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel
Effective communication during a pandemic, such as the current COVID-19 crisis, can save lives. At the present time, social and physical distancing measures are the lead strategy in combating the spread of COVID-19. In this study, a survey was administered ...
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