Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases Journal

Thank you to our reviewers: @chrisbel70.bsky.social @jackcleo.bsky.social

Preprint author(s): @Ian.Henderson

Reviews of Reviewers: C Beloin (Institut Pasteur) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • Anonymous | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • J Leo (Nottingham Trent University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

🚨‼️Check out reviews for a manuscript describing SeaB as a surface-exposed autotransporter involved in aggregation,
biofilm formation, extracellular matrix binding, virulence, and as a potential vaccine candidate!
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uqu15es2...

Reviews of "Autoantibodies Neutralizing Type I IFNs in 40% of Patients with WNV Encephalitis in Seven New Cohorts" Reviewers: J Beckham & J Berger (University of Texas Southwestern) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • B Strunz (Karolinska Institutet) | 📘📘📘📘📘

@rapidreviews-id.bsky.social is an #OA overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints. A new review looks at how West Nile Virus can lead patients to develop autoimmune responses, which can lead to more severe infections:

Thank you to the preprint author(s): @Charles.Sande @Timothy.Makori

Reviews of Reviewers: Anonymous | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️• Anonymous | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️

🚨‼️🚨Reviews in: This preprint shows that the nasopharyngeal microbiome composition may be associated with rapid mortality in children hospitalized with pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uopl7jq4...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Anastasia.Vlasova @Syed.Ali

Preprint author(s): @Kristin.Scheible

Reviews of Reviewers: A Vlasova (The Ohio State University) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • S Ali (Aga Khan University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

‼️🔊🔊Reviews are in for "Early-life gut microbiome is associated with immune response to the oral rotavirus vaccine in healthy infants in the US", rated "reliable"/"potentially informative" by reviewers.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/pax7jwgd...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Faith.Osier @Gavin.Wright
@joe-whitehead.bsky.social

Preprint author(s): @Richmond.Adda

Reviews of Reviewers: F Osier (Imperial College London) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • G Wright & J Whitehead (University of York) | 📙📙 ◻️◻️◻️

🦟‼️🚨Reviews are in for a preprint examining antibody responses to the DBL5 domain of VAR2CSA in pregnancy-associated malaria.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/omupkz1s...

Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases RR\ID is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints.

🚀 We are excited to see many initiatives that are working hard to publicly assess preprints. 🚀Today, we want to highlight one of them-- @rapidreviews-id.bsky.social !
RR\ID is "an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints."

Thank you to our reviewers: @Bibhuti.Mishra @bryanyipp.bsky.social

Preprint author(s): @Borko.Amulic

Reviews of Reviewers: B Mishra (Albany Medical College) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • B Yipp (University of Calgary) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️

‼️🚨📣Reviews are in for a preprint which shows that mitochondrial rewiring in immature neutrophils promotes degranulation and endothelial dysfunction in malaria and sepsis, revealing shared inflammatory mechanisms across infections.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/six43z0u...

Thank you to our reviewers: @John.Beckham @Jennifer.Berger @strunzb.bsky.social

Preprint author(s): @Jean-Laurent.Casanova @esibor.bsky.social

Reviews of Reviewers: J Beckham & J Berger (University of Texas Southwestern) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • B Strunz (Karolinska Institutet) | 📘📘📘📘📘

‼️🚨🔊Check out our reviews on how West Nile Virus can lead patients to develop autoimmune responses which can lead to more severe infections.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/vokdv8pv...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Cressida.Madigan @Ying.Zheng

Preprint author(s):
@mariabernabeu.bsky.social

Reviews of Reviewers: C Madigan (UC San Diego) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • Y Zheng (University of Washington) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

🔊‼️A recent study shows evidence that Plasmodium falciparum–activated immune cells can directly adhere to and damage the blood–brain barrier via inflammatory mechanisms, advancing understanding of immune-driven pathology in cerebral malaria.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujjfxtog...

Thank you to our reviewers: @paulamoraga.bsky.social @Fabio.Sanchez @Lucas.Stolerman

Preprint author(s): @lisacouper.bsky.social

Reviews of Reviewers: P Moraga (King Abdullah University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • F Sanchez (Universidad de Costa Rica) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • L Stolerman (Oklahoma State University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

‼️🔊Reviews are in for "Climate warming and urbanization may expand dengue transmission risk in California," a preprint that integrates vector presence, temperature suitability, and travel-related viral introductions to project dengue risk.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/jndwuiu8...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Daniela.Maria.Cirillo @Andrew.Fiore-Gartland

Preprint author(s): @Padmini.Salgame

Reviews of Reviewers: D M Cirillo (IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • A Fiore-Gartland (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️

‼️‼️In recent study from Brazil, authors conclude that while combining blood transcriptomic signatures meaningfully improves tuberculosis risk prediction important limitations in specificity, validation, and clinical practicality remain before widespread use.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/2ycko02m...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Ashraf.Rangrez @Anushka.Deshpande @Radha.Gopal

Preprint author(s): @Jacob.Yount

Reviews of Reviewers: A Rangrez & A Deshpande (Heidelberg University) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • R Gopal (University of Pittsburgh) |📘📘📘📘📘

🚨🫀Reviews are in for a preprint showing how a minimally adapted H1N1 influenza virus can directly drive cardiac dysfunction in immunocompetent mice and that early pharmacologic activation of AMPK improves electrical abnormalities, fibrosis, and survival.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/qqybqsuq...

Thank you to our reviewers: @campy-bara.bsky.social @Klaus.Neuhaus

Preprint author(s): @saunderslab.bsky.social

Reviews of Reviewers: S Svensson (Chinese Academy of Sciences) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • K Neuhaus (Technical University of Munich) | 📘📘📘📘📘

‼️🚨🧫A genome-wide genetic screen reveals that E. coli translates hundreds of previously unannotated ORFs, challenging long-standing assumptions about what bacterial genomes encode.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/1ulelc12...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Adel.Driss @Myo.Naung

Preprint author(s): @Sandrine.Nsango
@ellenleffler.bsky.social

Reviews of Reviewers: A Driss (Morehouse School of Medicine) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • M Naung (Deakin University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

🚨‼️🔊Check out this manuscript providing important insight into an ongoing evolutionary arms race between human genetics and malaria.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/9znajb6h...

Thank you to our reviewers: @patrickmunk.bsky.social @Martina.Vojtková @sbofill.bsky.social @Maria.Tarradas

Preprint author(s): @Marc.Johnson

Reviews of Reviewers: P Munk (DTU National Food Institute) & M Vojtková (Technical University of Denmark) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️• S Bofill-Mas and M Tarradas (University of Barcelona) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

🚨🔊Check out the reviews on this preprint on ultra-deep, untargeted wastewater sequencing.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/oxvdp4fv...

Thank you to our reviewers: @Carlos.Costa @Alessandra.Oliveira

Preprint author(s): @Shaden.Kamhawi

Reviews of Reviewers: C Costa (Federal University of Piauí) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • A Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul) | 📘📘📘📘📘

🚨🚨Reviews are in for "Widespread transmission in diverse ecotypes challenges visceral leishmaniasis control in East Africa", with two "strong" ratings for this preprint!
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/hgmys39i...