Sandra Smole

TL;DR: The lack of similarity between the 2009 A(H1N1) virus and its nearest relatives indicates that its gene segments have been circulating undetected for an extended period as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is found that ZIKV circulated undetected in multiple regions for many months before the first locally transmitted cases were confirmed, highlighting the importance of surveillance of viral infections.

TL;DR: A cluster of 8 patients, 4 months–3 years of age, who were brought for treatment at Boston Children’s Hospital with a variant of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) that has now been linked to CVA6 were evaluated.

TL;DR: Investigating the introduction and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the Boston area across the first wave of the pandemic provides powerful evidence of the importance of superspreading events in shaping the course of this pandemic and illustrates how some introductions, when amplified under unfortunate circumstances, can have an outsized effect with devastating consequences that extend far beyond the initial events themselves.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag card in a high-throughput, drive-through, free community testing site in Massachusetts using anterior nasal (AN) swab reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) for clinical testing.