Ebola: Response, sequencing, vaccines and survivors

The European Mobile Laboratory, EMLab, was the first EBOV diagnostics unit deployed to the outbreak epicentre by WHO in March 2014.

Travel Medicine in the era of Chikungunya, Ebola, and Zika virus

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases have evolved rapidly in recent decades as outbreaks such as SARS, Avian Influenza, Ebola, MERS, Chikungunya, and Zika virus have demonstrated how quickly infections can cross international borders.

The High Stakes of Fighting Zika: the Virus Challenging Public Health Systems

Great article from our colleagues at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine about Zika virus.

Co-circulation of human monkeypox virus and varicella-zoster virus

Video seminar by Chelsea McMullen, Operational Support Officer, International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC), presented at the University of Oxford, 21st October 2015

Special issue on strengthening tuberculosis diagnostic networks in Africa

Call for Papers: Special issue on strengthening tuberculosis diagnostic networks in Africa - African Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Ebola: the race to find a cure

Could scientists make history and change the way we deal with outbreaks?

The quest to optimize HIV treatment outcomes in resource-limited settings

Damalie Nakanjako (MBChB, MMED, PhD) is an internist whose work focuses on optimizing HIV treatment outcomes and reducing HIV-associated morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria – Are males more sensitive than females?

Peter Horby: Science in a crisis, fast-forwarding clinical research for Ebola

Video of Professor Peter Horby, the University of Oxford, on how he and his team set up clinical trials in the heart of the Ebola outbreak.

ASLM: Ensuring High Quality Point-of-Care Testing

East African Leaders Join Together to Develop Country-Specific Plans for Point-of-Care Testing.

ASLM: Antimicrobial resistance, an International Priority

Two great articles from the African Society for Laboratory Medicine looking at the increasing risk posed by antimicrobial resistance.

Difficult Trials in Difficult Places

Professor Lang talks about doing difficult trials in difficult places - including malaria and ebola trials.

The Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa (FIDSSA) Quarterly Journal

Using parasite population genetics to understand transmission dynamics in NTDs

Schistosomiasis, is a chronic, debilitating disease. Uganda began a National Control Programme in 2003 with annual MDA of praziquantel. MDA on this scale provides strong selective pressures on the parasite population with an associated risk of drug resistance developing.

Development of Leishmania vaccines in the era of visceral leishmaniasis elimination

Chronic hepatitis B infection in sub-Saharan Africa: a grave challenge and a great hope

Reducing Deaths from Malaria

Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocyte activation promotes innate antiviral resistance

PERCH (Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health)

In this seminar from January 2014, Dr Jane Crawley talks about clinical standardisation in PERCH (Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health), a large case-control study of the causes of and risk factors for severe pneumonia.

Vaccines for Malaria and Ebola, Weatherall lecture 2015

In this lecture Professor Adrian Hill talks about the latest advances in the development of vaccines for Malaria and Ebola.

Infectious diseases and Microbiology videos

The Haiti National Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV Program

Dr Nat Segaren - Medical Director of the Caris Foundation, presents on 'The Haiti National Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV Program'

Four decades of transmission of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak strain

Immunity to Malaria in Humans

In this seminar Professor Kevin Marsh describes how knowledge of immunity to malaria in humans has developed over the past thirty years and what impact this has for future research.

Ebola Virus Entry: A Curious and Complex Series of Events

ABRAID – The Atlas of Baseline Risk Assessment for Infectious Diseases - Call for feedback

ABRAID, new website of infectious diseases risk maps 

The Ebola Outbreak - Possible Implications that Media Reporting may Have -

Pioneering New Diagnostics: Addressing Challenges and Implications for Point-of-Care Testing in African Settings

Neutrophils: Between Host Defence, Immune Modulation, and Tissue Injury

A Novel Host-Proteome Signature for Distinguishing between Acute Bacterial and Viral Infections

UNICEF Cholera Toolkit

HIV/AIDS diagnostics technology landscape

Hepatitis C diagnostics technology landscape

Epidemics and vaccines videos

Early Virus-Host Interactions Dictate the Course of a Persistent Infection

Clinical Immunology Collection from PLOS and PLOS Pathogens Pearls

Rapid and Inexpensive Detection of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a Resazurin Microtitreplate Assay in a High Burden Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory

Prof Peter Piot on Ebola

Professor Peter Piot, LSHTM, talks about Ebola and implications for Africa and understanding future epidemics at the Martin School, University of Oxford, 16th October 2014.

Ebola PPE guidelines

Ebola PPE guidelines - urgent need to revise WHO and CDC guidelines. This video shows an excerpt from keynote address 'The fuss about face masks', Professor Raina MacIntyre from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia.

The Clinical and Economic Impact of Point-of-Care CD4 Testing in Mozambique and Other Resource-Limited Settings: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

Aging and HIV/AIDS: pathogenetic role of therapeutic side effects

The Ebola Virus Epidemic - where to from here...

The Ebola virus epidemic may well spread out of Africa. Dr Greg Martin takes a look at some of the variables that contribute to this risk and discusses some steps that should be taken.

An Integrated Lab-on-Chip for Rapid Identification and Simultaneous Differentiation of Tropical Pathogens

Microbiology Clinical Laboratory SOPs

Evaluation of a Typhoid/Paratyphoid Diagnostic Assay (TPTest) Detecting Anti-Salmonella IgA in Secretions of Peripheral Blood in Lymphocytes in Patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Prospective Evaluation of Three Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Diagnosis of Human Leptospirosis

Clinical Research Laboratories for Trials in Global Health in Central Africa

The authors present the story of building a succesful research laboratory in Cameroon, including how they managed building up the infrastructure, equipment maintenance, staff training.

Tuberculosis Diagnostic Technology and Market Landscape

Development and Validation of a Novel Diagnostic Test for Human Brucellosis Using a Glyco-engineered Antigen Coupled to Magnetic Beads

Leishmaniasis Direct Agglutination Test: Using Pictorials as Training Materials to REduce Inter-Reader Variability and Improve Accuracy