The serotype distribution among healthy carriers before vaccination is essential for predicting the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive disease. by Stefan Flasche, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Katherine L O'Brien, W John Edmunds

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Event-based surveillance at health facility and community level in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review by Ruwan Ratnayake, Anna Kuehne, Jonathan Polonsky, Christopher Haskew, Karl Schenkel, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux

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Clinical Impact of MALDI-TOF MS Identification and Rapid Susceptibility Testing on Adequate Antimicrobial Treatment in Sepsis with Positive Blood Cultures. by Alexia Verroken, Lydwine Defourny, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Leïla Belkhir, Pierre-François Laterre, Michel Delmée, Youri Glupczynski

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Characteristics of exhaled particle production in healthy volunteers: possible implications for infectious disease transmission [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/xa] by Fatima Wurie, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Matthew Brande, Wesley DeHaan, Katherine Holdgate, Rishi Mannan, Donald Milton, Daniel Swerdlow, Andrew Hayward

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Severity and outcomes of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to Delta variant and severity of Omicron sublineages: a systematic review and metanalysis by Lisa Askie, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Janet Diaz, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Pryanka Relan, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Kavita Kothari

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Identifying human encounters that shape the transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other acute respiratory infections by Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Stefan Flasche, Adam J Kucharski, Celine Langendorf, Donny Ndazima, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Rebecca F Grais, Sandra Cohuet, W John Edmunds

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Measuring the unknown: An estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics. by Christopher I Jarvis, Amy Gimma, Flavio Finger, Tim P Morris, Jennifer A Thompson, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, W John Edmunds, Sebastian Funk, Thibaut Jombart

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Assessment of a health facility based active case finding system for Ebola virus disease in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June–July 2018 by Amber Kunkel, Mory Keita, Boubacar Diallo, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Lorenzo Subissi, Bocar Wague, Roger Molala, Pierre Lonfandjo, Sébastien Bokoo Bokete, William Perea, Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey

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Assessing the efficiency of catch-up campaigns for the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: a modelling study based on data from PCV10 introduction in Kilifi, Kenya by Stefan Flasche, John Ojal, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Mark Otiende, Katherine L. O’Brien, Moses Kiti, D. James Nokes, W John Edmunds, J. Anthony G. Scott

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Predicting the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine programme options in Vietnam by Olivier Le Polain De Waroux, W. John Edmunds, Kensuke Takahashi, Koya Ariyoshi, E. Kim Mulholland, David Goldblatt, Yoon Hong Choi, Dang Duc Anh, Lay Myint Yoshida, Stefan Flasche

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Mpox in Children and Adolescents during Multicountry Outbreak, 2022–2023 by Ana Hoxha, Steven M. Kerr, Henry Laurenson-Schafer, Nikola Sklenovská, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Patricia Ndumbi, Julia Fitzner, Maria Almiron, Marcelo Vila, Richard Pebody, Aisling M. Vaughan, Joana M. Haussig, Luis Alves de Sousa, Okot Charles Lukoya, Olaniyi Felix Sanni, Pierre Nabeth, Jeremias Domingos Naiene, Masaya Kato, Tamano Matsui, Krutika Kuppalli, Peter Omondi Mala, Rosamund F. Lewis, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Boris I. Pavlin

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Social contact patterns and implications for infectious disease transmission – a systematic review and meta-analysis of contact surveys by Andria Mousa, Peter Winskill, Oliver John Watson, Oliver Ratmann, Mélodie Monod, Marco Ajelli, Aldiouma Diallo, Peter J Dodd, Carlos G Grijalva, Moses Chapa Kiti, Anand Krishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Supriya Kumar, Kin O Kwok, Claudio F Lanata, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Kathy Leung, Wiriya Mahikul, Alessia Melegaro, Carl D Morrow, Joël Mossong, Eleanor FG Neal, D James Nokes, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Gail E Potter, Fiona M Russell, Siddhartha Saha, Jonathan D Sugimoto, Wan In Wei, Robin R Wood, Joseph Wu, Juanjuan Zhang, Patrick Walker, Charles Whittaker

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Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update by Maria D Van Kerkhove, Mahmoud Hassan, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Boris Igor Pavlin, Sandra Adele, Kazuki Shimizu, Oliver Morgan, Daniel Feikin, Lorenzo Subissi, Richard G Pebody, Masaya Kato, Opeayo Ogundiran, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Tshewang Dorji, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Friday Idoko, Tamano Matsui, Silviu Ciobanu, Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Tondri Noe Guinko, Samuel Mesfin, Harsh Lata, Alessandro Miglietta, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Esther Hamblion, Melissa M Higdon, Ayse Acma, Samuel Moro, Homa Attar Cohen, Mary Anissa Sinnathamby, James Richard Otieno, Yosef Temre, Brian Ngongheh Ajong, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Vaishali Sodagar, Craig Schultz, Joao Muianga, Stéphane De Barros, Yeowon Jin, Shagun Khare, Marcia Poole, Nyka Alexander, Manilay Phengxay, Emilie Peron, Brett Nicholas Archer, Zyleen Alnashir Kassamali, Abdi Mahamud

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WHO Global Situational Alert System: a mixed methods multistage approach to identify country-level COVID-19 alerts by Richard Pebody, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Mahmoud Hassan, Thierno Balde, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Sandra Adele, Kazuki Shimizu, Charlotte Christiane Hammer, Lisa Owen, Villyen Motaze, Michael Höhle, Piers Mook, Masaya Kato, Kathleen Ryan, Tanja Schmidt, Marjam Esmail, Jessica Lee Abbate, Opeayo Ogundiran, Sophie Maes, Victoria D Bélorgeot, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Martina McMenamin, Jessica Kolmer, Irena Djordjevic, Finlay Campbell, Henry Laurenson-Schafer, Basma Mostafa Abdelgawad, Amarnath Babu, Neale Batra, Hannah Brindle, Tshewang Dorji, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Lucía Hernández-García, Friday Idoko, Sarah Karmin, Zyleen A Kassamali, Tamano Matsui, Mengjuan Duan, Boris I Pavlin, Tika Sedai, Teresa Zakaria, Abdi R Mahamud, Dominic Cocciolone, Christian Gapp, Kayla King, Aimee Latta, Sandra Lindmark, Ihor Perehinets, Amy Gimma, Jason McKnight, Margaux Mesle, Maarten Van Haverbeke, Tamar Amar, Ka Yeung Cheng, Silviu Ciobanu, Lauren E MacDonald, Jeff Pires, Jukka Pukkila, Celine Roman, Laila Skrowny, Ara Tadevosyan, Catherine Smallwood, Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Adedoyin Abiola Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Bernadette Mirembe, Tondri Noe Guinko, Homa Attar-Cohen, Stephen Leshan Koyie, Samuel Mesfin, Veronica Cristea, Nikola Sklenovska, Mostafa Mahran, Emily Meyer, Grace Brough, Harsh Lata, Alessandro Miglietta, Sydel Parikh, Eri Togami, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Yeo Won Jin, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Amaia Artazcoz Glaria, Hyo Jeong Kim, Muhammed Tayyab

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