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Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases Journal
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RR\ID is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints. Funded by the Gates Fdn, published by MIT Press, and HQ'd at UC Berkeley 🔗 https://rrid.mitpress.mit.edu/
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Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases Journal @rapidreviews-id.bsky.social · Jan 30
Welcome! We’re a community of students, researchers, and faculty committed to #OpenScience, democratizing scientific publishing, and empowering the global response to #infectiousdiseases. Look for weekly preprint reviews powered by ID experts dedicated to making science more accessible.
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💊‼️Check out the reviews for this preprint reporting that azithromycin treatment in COVID-19 induces dysbiosis of the upper respiratory microbiome and alters expression of MLS resistance genes without providing any detectable anti-inflammatory benefit.
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Reviewers: S Taylor (SAHMRI) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • V Lloréns-Rico (Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🚨🚨🚨Reviews in: This preprint shows that adding the probiotic L. crispatus after metronidazole therapy promotes sustained recolonization and reduced inflammation in bacterial vaginosis.
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Reviewers: R Kort (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • S Kennedy (Institut Pasteur) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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November 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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‼️🚨🔉New In: Reviews for a preprint investigating how viral-induced SUMOylation of PFKFB3 reprograms host metabolism and inflammation, proposing it as a potential therapeutic target for respiratory virus infections.
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Reviewers: A Adamson & E Daly (University of North Carolina Greensboro) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • Anonymous | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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🚨🚨Check out this preprint tracking hepatitis A hospitalizations in Bangladesh, highlighting shifting risks, viral co-infections, and the need for broader vaccination and surveillance strategies.
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Reviewers: A Boyd (Amsterdam University Medical Center) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • Valsan Verghese (Christian Medical College) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🔊🔊🔊Reviews for the preprint Genomic and epidemiologic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections in California, January 2021 - July 2023 are out!
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Reviewers: S Bradfute (University of New Mexico) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • M Johnson (University of Missouri) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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October 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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‼️🔊🗞️Reviews are in for a preprint which draws on a "well-designed qualitative framework" and interviews with diverse stakeholders in Viet Nam and Zambia to find that tongue-swabs are generally a more acceptable method of TB diagnosis than sputum-tests.
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Reviewers: M Kamariza & L Schwartz (UCLA) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • S Oliver (University College London) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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📣📣NEW IN: This preprint shows that resistance to new β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations can evolve even before the drugs are used in patients, driven by bacterial genetics and prior antibiotic exposure patterns.
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Reviewers: M Qamar (Government College University Faisalabad) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • J Sahl (Northern Arizona University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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October 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🧬🧬Check out our reviews evaluating a potential vaccine target for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
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Reviewers: M Rahe (North Carolina State University) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • F Martinez-Lobo (University of Lleida) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • S Mahomed and N Zondo (University of KwaZulu-Natal) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🦠‼️📣Check out this preprint showing how Bordetella pertussis’ tracheal cytotoxin skews immune signaling toward NOD1, suppressing NOD2-driven inflammation and adaptive immunity which uncovers a clever bacterial strategy for immune evasion and persistence.
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Reviewers: M Goncheva (University of Victoria) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • D Philpott (University of Toronto) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🔊🔊🔊NEW IN -- check out reviews on this important preprint on the impact of asymptomatic EAEC infections in early childhood‼️

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Reviewers: B Jensen (Copenhagen University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • M Meza (University of Massachusetts) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🚨🚨Just Posted: This study demonstrates the potential of integrating metagenomic sequencing with passive surveillance to detect diverse and potentially zoonotic viruses in urban bats, though reviewers noted limitations in sampling strategy and data clarity.
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Reviewers: K Bhardwaj (Manav Rachna International Institute) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • K Mossman & R Crake (McMaster University) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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October 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🔊🔊‼️REVIEWS IN: Please visit our page to read reviews on a preprint on an Ethiopian clinical trial comparing artesunate-pyronaridine plus primaquine (PA+PQ) versus chloroquine plus primaquine (CQ+PQ) for treating Plasmodium vivax malaria.
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Reviewers: E Adehossi (Abdou Moumouni University) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • A Fola (Brown University) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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🚨🚨🚨NEW IN: Reviews on a preprint that probes the potency of a library of Cobalt(III)-Schiff Base complexes as inhibitors of NDM-1, an important driver of antibiotic resistance.
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Reviewer(s): M Morris (University of Queensland) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • Y Y Sham (University of Minnesota) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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🦠🚨‼️Check out our reviews on the preprint showing how N276 glycan alterations drive HIV-1 escape from VRC01-class broadly neutralizing antibodies, providing insights directly relevant for vaccine design.
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Reviewer(s): P Acharya (Duke) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • H Song (University of South Florida) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • S Pincus (Montana State University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • J Binley (San Diego Biomedical Research Institute) | 📘📘📘...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🔊🔊Check out this new modeling study comparing two strategies for introducing new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in MSM, aiming to minimize drug resistance.
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Reviewer(s): K Turner (University of Bristol) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • M Hammerschlag (SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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September 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Reviews are in for a preprint reporting lower than expected vaccine effectiveness in Pakistani children under two years old, highlighting the influence of nutritional status and the challenges of evaluating vaccination status in high-mortality settings.
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Reviewer(s): M Saito (Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • E Luna (Universidade de São Paulo) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🏥‼️🚨Check out this preprint showing how scaling the World Health Organization's childhood TB algorithms at primary health centers could boost access and cut costs.
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Reviewer(s): M Tatar & J Khalid (University of Houston) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • J Zhu (Vanderbilt University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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‼️‼️Check out this new study showing how to find the right sequencing approach for different Hepatitis B detection scenarios
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Reviewer(s): S Ying-Hsiu (Baruch S. Blumberg Institute) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • A Ramette (University of Bern) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • A Jeffries (University of Exeter) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🚨🚨🚨NEW IN: The BIOCREDIT (LDH and HRP) rapid test, which detects Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax with a single test line, can serve as an alternative to earlier rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs).
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Reviewer(s): S T Agnandj & A Alabi (CERMEL) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • R Leke & J Bigoga (University of Yaounde) & I Ali (University of Dschang) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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🔊🔊🔊This powerful mixed-methods study reveals the full burden of anthrax on both lives and livelihoods in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro region.
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Reviewer(s): N Antoine-Moussiaux (University of Liège) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • C Mumba (Durham University) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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September 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🧬🔊🔊The COVID-19 quantum-enhanced nanodiamond rapid test detects infections earlier and more accurately than current tests, potentially identifying thousands more cases daily and slowing outbreaks.
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Reviewer(s): S Ramanathan (Universiti Malaya) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • V Knight (Children's Hospital Colorado) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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‼️‼️🧫Check out this validation of the MpoxPlex multiplex assay that accurately detects mpox infection up to two years post-exposure, offering a powerful tool for long-term surveillance and immune monitoring.
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Reviewer(s): O Laeyendecker (Johns Hopkins University) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • R Jacob & K Mossman (McMaster University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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‼️‼️‼️Check out this study that demonstrates the biggest hurdle to developing HIV vaccines that elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies may be getting the right B cells activated from the start.
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Reviewer(s): A Dent (Indiana University School of Medicine) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • S Iyer (University of Pittsburgh) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • M Bemark (Lund University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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September 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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🔬🤖‼️This AI-powered microscopy device for malaria diagnosis shows >95% accuracy at clinically relevant parasitemia levels, possibly transforming the field of malaria diagnostics!
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Reviews of
Reviewer(s): C Delahunt (Global Health Labs) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • M Nateghpour (Tehran University of Medical Sciences) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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August 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🚨🚨🚨Check out our reviews on the preprint that identified emetine dihydrochloride (ED) as a promising inhibitor of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) through a systematic drug screening of 2,560 compounds.
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Reviewer(s): Y Suzuki (Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ • M van Hemert (Leiden University Medical Center) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️ • Anonymous | 📒📒📒◻️◻️
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August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM