M. Nazmul Hoque, Arif Istiaq, Rebecca Clement, Munawar Sultana et al.
Milk microbiomes significantly influence the pathophysiology of bovine mastitis. To assess the association between microbiome diversity and bovine mastitis, we compared the microbiome of clinical mastitis (CM, n = 14) and healthy (H, n = 7) milk samples through deep whole metagenome sequencing (WMS)...
Graydon Snider, Crystal Weagle, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar et al.
Abstract. Ground-based observations have insufficient spatial coverage to assess long-term human exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at the global scale. Satellite remote sensing offers a promising approach to provide information on both short- and long-term exposure to PM2.5 at local-to-glo...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Arif Istiaq, Rebecca Clement, Keylie M. Gibson et al.
Bovine clinical mastitis (CM) is one of the most prevalent diseases caused by a wide range of resident microbes. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in CM bacteria is well-known, however the genomic resistance composition (the resistome) at microbiome-level is not well characterized. In this s...
Jacob McNeill, Graydon Snider, Crystal Weagle, Brenna Walsh et al.
Abstract Globally consistent measurements of airborne metal concentrations in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) are important for understanding potential health impacts, prioritizing air pollution mitigation strategies, and enabling global chemical transport model development. PM 2.5 filter samples ...
Xuan Liu, Jay R. Turner, Christopher R. Oxford, Jacob McNeill et al.
Global ground-level measurements of elements in ambient particulate matter (PM) can provide valuable information to understand the distribution of dust and trace elements, assess health impacts, and investigate emission sources. We use X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to characterize the elemental co...
Erika Feutz, Prasanta K. Biswas, Latif Ndeketa, Billy Ogwel et al.
Abstract Background Rigorous data management systems and planning are essential to successful research projects, especially for large, multicountry consortium studies involving partnerships across multiple institutions. Here we describe the development and implementation of data management systems a...
Agathe Jouet, Sofie Marijke Braet, Cyril Gaudin, Gaëlle Bisch et al.
BACKGROUND: Expansion of antimicrobial resistance monitoring and epidemiological surveillance are key components of the WHO strategy towards zero leprosy. The inability to grow Mycobacterium leprae in vitro precludes routine phenotypic drug susceptibility testing, and only limited molecular tests ar...
Graydon Snider, Crystal Weagle, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar et al.
Abstract. Ground-based observations have insufficient spatial coverage to assess long-term human exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at the global scale. Satellite remote sensing offers a promising approach to provide information on both short- and long-term exposure to PM2.5 at local-to-glo...
Yuxuan Ren, Christopher R. Oxford, Dandan Zhang, Xuan Liu et al.
Characterizing black carbon (BC) on a fine scale globally is essential for understanding its climate and health impacts. However, sparse BC mass measurements in different parts of the world and coarse model resolution have inhibited evaluation of global BC emission inventories. Here, we apply global...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Arif Istiaq, Rebecca Clement, Munawar Sultana et al.
Abstract Milk microbiomes impose a significant influence on the pathophysiology of bovine mastitis. To assess the association, we compared the microbiome of clinical mastitis (CM) and healthy (H) milk samples through whole metagenomic deep sequencing. A total of 483.38 million reads generated from b...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Arif Istiaq, Rebecca Clement, Keylie M. Gibson et al.
Abstract The bovine clinical mastitis (CM) milk is a large reservoir for diverse groups of resistomes, which play important roles in the pathogenesis of mastitis, but little is known about the concurrence of CM microbiome signature and its associated resistomes. Here we deciphered the total resistan...
M A Yousafzai, Jennifer Cornick, Pablo Peñataro Yori, M Jahangir Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Shigella is a leading cause of dysentery and watery diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) with consequences beyond diarrhoea for children younger than 5 years, including environmental enteric dysfunction and linear growth impairment. We established the burden, serot...
Yuxuan Ren, Christopher R. Oxford, Dandan Zhang, Xuan Liu et al.
Characterization of black carbon (BC) on a fine scale across the world is essential for understanding its climate and health impacts. However, a paucity of BC mass measurements in different parts of the world and the coarse scale resolution of global models have inhibited evaluation of global BC emi...
Donnie Mategula, Bakary Conteh, Christine J. McGrath, Erika L. Feutz et al.
Background Shigella is a leading cause of diarrheal illness in children in low- and middle-income countries, with evidence of contribution to prolonged diarrhoea, hospitalization, and impaired growth. Methods In this prospective cohort study, we analysed data from 8756 children aged 6–35 months with...
Christopher R. Oxford, Haihui Zhu, Maya Mehrotra, Xuan Liu et al.
Abstract. Accurate measurements of the composition of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are important for understanding its sources and health impacts. Water, a portion of PM2.5 mass, is difficult to measure. We describe developments to the Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) to better charac...