Rachel Lowe

A low-cost environmental monitoring framework for climate-sensitive disease surveillance in the Peruvian Amazon

Abstract Malaria, dengue and leptospirosis are endemic in the Peruvian Amazon, where routine surveillance operates without village-scale environmental observation. We report the yield of that monitoring framework, the completeness of its meteorological record, and its cost, opera...

Pneumococcal population structure influences the effects of air pollution on invasive disease risk in South Africa

Abstract Streptococcus pneumoniae is highly diverse, comprising over 100 serotypes and hundreds of genomic lineages amid widespread vaccination. While it can cause invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) which exhibits pronounced seasonal spikes, the interplay between pneumococcal di...