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Editorial The Lancet Infectious Diseases—the state of play
3 years on from when The Lancet Infectious Diseases began publishing original research articles is an appropriate time to consider how the change in policy has affected the character of the journal and our current publication priorities, and to speculate what the future might hold.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - September 25, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Sexually transmitted infections: challenges ahead
WHO estimated that nearly 1 million people become infected every day with any of four curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs): chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, and trichomoniasis. Despite their high global incidence, STIs remain a neglected area of research. In this Commission, we have prioritised five areas that represent particular challenges in STI treatment and control. Chlamydia remains the most commonly diagnosed bacterial STI in high-income countries despite widespread testing recommendations, sensitive and specific non-invasive testing techniques, and cheap effective therapy.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - July 9, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Magnus Unemo, Catriona S Bradshaw, Jane S Hocking, Henry J C de Vries, Suzanna C Francis, David Mabey, Jeanne M Marrazzo, Gerard J B Sonder, Jane R Schwebke, Elske Hoornenborg, Rosanna W Peeling, Susan S Philip, Nicola Low, Christopher K Fairley Tags: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Source Type: research

Editorial An enduring reminder of the importance of public health
January, 2018 marks the 500th anniversary of the first attempts to control by regulation an infectious disease in England. Given its historical importance, it will not surprise readers of The Lancet Infectious Diseases that the disease in question was plague. In January, 1518 a royal proclamation was issued by Henry VIII setting out ways in which plague was to be controlled, such as the marking of affected houses. Although an important milestone in English public health, this was not the first time publicly prescribed precautions against plague had been issued.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - December 21, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Sepsis: a roadmap for future research
Sepsis is a common and lethal syndrome: although outcomes have improved, mortality remains high. No specific anti-sepsis treatments exist; as such, management of patients relies mainly on early recognition allowing correct therapeutic measures to be started rapidly, including administration of appropriate antibiotics, source control measures when necessary, and resuscitation with intravenous fluids and vasoactive drugs when needed. Although substantial developments have been made in the understanding of the basic pathogenesis of sepsis and the complex interplay of host, pathogen, and environment that affect the incidence a...
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - April 20, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jonathan Cohen, Jean-Louis Vincent, Neill K J Adhikari, Flavia R Machado, Derek C Angus, Thierry Calandra, Katia Jaton, Stefano Giulieri, Julie Delaloye, Steven Opal, Kevin Tracey, Tom van der Poll, Eric Pelfrene Tags: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Source Type: research

The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Antibiotic resistance—the need for global solutions
The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate change are evident. Many efforts have been made to describe the many different facets of antibiotic resistance and the interventions needed to meet the challenge. However, coordinated action is largely absent, especially at the political level, both nationally and internationally. Antibiotics paved the way for unprecedented medical and societal developments, and are today indispensible in all health systems.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - November 23, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ramanan Laxminarayan, Adriano Duse, Chand Wattal, Anita K M Zaidi, Heiman F L Wertheim, Nithima Sumpradit, Erika Vlieghe, Gabriel Levy Hara, Ian M Gould, Herman Goossens, Christina Greko, Anthony D So, Maryam Bigdeli, Göran Tomson, Will Woodhouse, Eva Om Tags: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission Source Type: research

Editorial A new chapter in HIV
In this issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, you will notice a large amount of HIV content in the journal. We have pooled this content from the many HIV/AIDS-related submissions that the journal received to mark the occasion of the 20th International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2014, in Melbourne this year, July 20–25. This content also heralds an exciting development in the Lancet journals' engagement with the HIV community, the launch of a new title: The Lancet HIV.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - June 23, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Editorial A time for celebration
The Lancet Infectious Diseases reaches a milestone this month: our 200th issue. This happy event gives us an opportunity to reflect on the journey that the journal has had and look back at what has happened in the field of infectious diseases over the past 17 years.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - February 22, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Comment The Lancet Infectious Diseases HIV Prevention Resource Center
In collaboration with the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), The Lancet Infectious Diseases has launched a free HIV prevention resource centre (http://hivprevent.thelancet.com).
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - August 7, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: John McConnell Tags: Comment Source Type: research

Editorial The imperative of vaccination
Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions and it has been instrumental in saving lives and greatly changing the burden of many infectious diseases over the past 100 years. However, the very effectiveness of vaccines has made some diseases rare, and most of us are less likely to witness first hand the devastating consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases. This fact, combined with misinformation, suspicion about vaccines, and mistrust of governments and health authorities, have prompted many parents to override concerns about the diseases themselves and oppose the vaccination of their children.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - October 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Editorial Climate change: the role of the infectious disease community
In October, the World Meteorological Organization reported that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 increased at a record rate in 2016 to reach their highest point in 800  000 years. Such statistics are a stark reminder that human beings continue to damage the planet and that not enough is being done to mitigate the harms. Climate change is one of the severest threats to human health and wellbeing. At the end of a year of policy setbacks as well as causes for optim ism in addressing climate change, now is a good time to reflect on how the infectious diseases community could respond to the challenge.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - November 23, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Comment Infectious diseases in China in the post-SARS era
The epidemiology and comparative burden of communicable diseases determines which diseases warrant public health resources and intervention. In a country as large as China, identification of the communicable diseases causing the greatest burden and the population groups most affected by specific diseases is a massive, and very important, undertaking. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Shigui Yang and colleagues report surveillance data for communicable diseases in China over a 10-year period (2004 –13), covering a population of 1·3 billion people and incorporating nearly 55 million notified cases of 45 infectious diseases.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - April 12, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Katherine B Gibney, Robert Hall Tags: Comment Source Type: research

Corrections Corrections
Pollard RB, Rockstroh JK, Pantaleo G, et al. Safety and efficacy of the peptide-based therapeutic vaccine for HIV-1, Vacc-4x: a phase 2 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Infect Dis 2014; 14: 291–300—In this Article, the affiliation for Barry Peters should have been given as Harrison Wing, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London, UK. The online version has been corrected as of April 21, 2014.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - April 21, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Corrections Source Type: research

Editorial Two birds with one stone
As the global burden of disease shifts from infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases are rising up the health agenda with, at first glance, demands for attention and funding that conflict with those of communicable diseases. However, rather then a focus on disease-specific responses, some researchers have suggested a more creative approach. At the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases meeting on coinfections held in London, UK, on February 12, Ib Bygbjerg presented his ideas on how certain diseases could be treated together, since the consequences of communicable and non-communicable diseases seem tig...
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Editorial Breaking up is hard to do: Brexit and European science
On April 18 the UK Government announced that a general election will be held on June 8, a move precipitated by the vote of the UK electorate in June last year to leave the European Union (EU). Shortly after the general election announcement, the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) was held in Vienna, Austria. ECCMID is a must-attend event on the conference circuit for this journal. This year's running —the first since the UK voted to leave the EU—attracted 12 494 attendees from 126 countries, making it arguably the world's most important infectious diseases meeting.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - May 24, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Editorial Guinea worm disease nears eradication
Only two infectious diseases have ever been eradicated: smallpox, of which the last naturally transmitted case occurred in 1977, and rinderpest, a disease of cattle and related ungulates, officially declared eradicated in 2011. This year might see a remarkable doubling in the list of eradicated diseases, with both polio (about which we wrote in the August, 2015, issue) and guinea worm no longer being naturally transmitted.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - January 27, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Tags: Editorial Source Type: research