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New and unexpected health threats have emerged in Asia that could weigh on the world's fastest growing and most dynamic region. Diseases associated with obesity and smoking are rising, and will cause tens of millions of deaths from heart and lung disease and cancer in coming decades. But alongside these lifestyle-associated conditions, the old foe of infectious disease is reemerging and threatens to cause an even greater health and economic disaster.

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Ensuring vaccine cold chain integrity: A rapid and low-cost test for identifying heat-exposed sucrose-containing vaccines

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Arman BY. et al, (2026), International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X, 11, 100467 - 100467

Rickettsial seropositivity in Lao PDR smallholder livestock farms: Implications for animal and human health.

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Tawfik C. et al, (2026), One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 22

Chronic Malaria Is Associated With Trauma-related Splenic Rupture Requiring Splenectomy

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Shanti PAI. et al, (2026), The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 233, e740 - e744

Parasitological efficacy of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Nampula, northern Mozambique

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Bonnington C. et al, (2026), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 120, 258 - 267

Impact of an electronic clinical decision support algorithm (eCDSA) on antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Cambodia: A cluster randomised controlled trial

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Wynberg E. et al, (2026), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 164, 108382 - 108382

Urinary carbonic anhydrase 1 excretion is a marker of hemolysis-triggering conditions suitable for point-of-care testing

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Hulikova A. et al, (2026), Blood Global Hematology, 2, 100058 - 100058

Biosafety without borders: bridging the capacity gap in resource-limited laboratory settings

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Blacksell SD. and Dhawan S., (2026), The Lancet Microbe, 101394 - 101394

Burden of chronic respiratory disease in Asia, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

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Jo H. et al, (2026), The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 14, 233 - 255

Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny

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Hunt M. et al, (2026), Nature Methods, 23, 653 - 662

Data reuse in global health: perspectives from actors in policy, funding and research

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Waithira N. et al, (2026), BMJ Global Health, 11, e021974 - e021974

Scrub and murine typhus seroprevalence among blood donors in Laos.

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Phuklia W. et al, (2026), PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 20

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