The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal

The HIV outbreak in Pakistan is unprecedented in terms of the proportion of young children affected, mostly under 5-years-old. It represents a 54% increase in paediatric diagnoses over the past 13 years, according to an observational...

Overuse of pre- and post-surgery antibiotics in low-income countries may contribute to higher levels of resistant surgical site infections following gastrointestinal surgery. Globally, approximately 12% of patients develop a surgical site infection within 30 days of...

Genetic surveillance should be incorporated into malaria control programmes to improve treatment and reduce the risk of drug-resistant major outbreaks. The current spread of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia is likely to be the result of...

Human antibodies manufactured from transchromosomic cattle could represent a novel technique for rapidly producing antibodies for passive immunotherapy for emerging infectious diseases. Human antibodies manufactured from the plasma of cattle and targeting the Middle East respiratory...