Dominic Haigh

Our paper "Is there a need to repeat single assay reactive HIV screens? A review of practice in two UK sites" is now published in the Journal of Clinical Virology
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Risk prediction models for targeted testing of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C: a systematic review and meta-analysis Diagnosing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in general population settings is challenging. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction tools designed to help ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Adenoviral Retinitis: A Rare Case Presentation of a Common Virus To report a rare case of bilateral necrotising retinitis caused by a potentially novel human adenovirus D (HAdV-D) in a post-bone marrow transplant patient and to highlight the diagnostic challenge...

Adenoviral Retinitis: A Rare Case Presentation of a Common Virus www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Research in context panel for "Pharmacokinetics and safety of once-yearly lenacapavir: a phase 1, open-label study". Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Once-a-year injection to protect against HIV is safe and shows promise as a long-acting prevention medication, phase 1 study finds.

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It's meant to be a children's film, unbelievable

The first UK case of congenital Zika syndrome Following the 2015–2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas and Caribbean, cases have globally declined but persist in endemic regions like the…

Case report of the first UK case of congenital Zika syndrome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New forms of life discovered inside human bodies Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and microscopic life.

#Obelisk #RNA #rRNA #mRNA #tRNA #DNA #Virus #Bacteria #Molecule #Viroid #RibonucleicAcid #CircularRNA #Ribosomes

Recently, a team of researchers stumbled upon strange entities, or obelisks, living inside of human bodies that had escaped notice until now.

Abridged (shortened) article thread ⬇️ 6 min

This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people.

We often worry about the wrong things.

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
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