The Blish Lab

Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected effects of policy alternatives: a mathematical modelling study The historical rise in incarceration in Latin America has resulted in a large excess tuberculosis burden that has been under-recognised to date. International health agencies, ministries of justice, a...

Excited to share our latest work, led by Yiran Liu,
estimating the true impact of incarceration on the TB epidemic in Latin America. We found that the dramatic rise in incarceration since 1990 is the #1 driver of TB in LatAm, accounting for 27% of cases
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A National Active Case-Finding Program for Tuberculosis in Prisons, Peru, 2024 From January to September 2024, a national active case-finding program in Peru's prisons screened more than 38,000 incarcerated persons for tuberculosis using chest radiography with automated interpre...

Our latest in collaboration with Peru's National TB Programme, evaluating a national systematic TB screening program in prisons, which revealed very high prevalence of TB and MDR TB:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/Esther Jung and Moises Huaman

Sex differences and immune correlates of Long Covid development, symptom persistence, and resolution A multiomic analysis reveals sex differences and immune correlates of Long Covid symptom development, persistence, and resolution.

A new paper with @blishlab.bsky.social lead by Rebecca Hamlin and Shaun Pienkos just published : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... on Sex differences and immune correlates of Long Covid.

@sherlockpholmes.bsky.social encouraged me to join! Let have some great scientific discussions here. In the meantime, interesting paper on NK cells after mRNA vaccination. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37711632/