Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013 …

…, H Brenner, AD Briggs, PM Brooks, JC Brown… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together
all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised …

[HTML][HTML] Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016 …

…, MA Pletcher, AE Smith, K Tang, CW Yuan, JC Brown… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Understanding potential trajectories in health and drivers of health is crucial to
guiding long-term investments and policy implementation. Past work on forecasting has …

[HTML][HTML] The furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is required for transmission in ferrets

…, OC Swann, R Kugathasan, R Penn, JC Brown… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 entry requires sequential cleavage of the spike glycoprotein at the S1/S2 and
the S2ʹ cleavage sites to mediate membrane fusion. SARS-CoV-2 has a polybasic insertion (…

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden …

…, N Breitborde, H Brenner, ADM Briggs, JC Brown… - The Lancet, 2015 - cris.unibo.it
Background Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specifi c all-cause and
cause-specifi c mortality is essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health …

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease …

…, EA Dansereau, N Graetz, RM Barber, JC Brown… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The Millennium Declaration in 2000 brought special global attention to HIV,
tuberculosis, and malaria through the formulation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6. …

Global and national burden of diseases and injuries among children and adolescents between 1990 and 2013: findings from the global burden of disease 2013 study

HH Kyu, C Pinho, JA Wagner, JC Brown… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The literature focuses on mortality among children younger than 5 years.
Comparable information on nonfatal health outcomes among these children and the fatal and …

[HTML][HTML] Self-amplifying RNA SARS-CoV-2 lipid nanoparticle vaccine candidate induces high neutralizing antibody titers in mice

…, K Hu, AK Blakney, K Samnuan, JC Brown… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 into a global pandemic within a few months of onset motivates
the development of a rapidly scalable vaccine. Here, we present a self-amplifying RNA …

[PDF][PDF] The SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, shows rapid replication in human primary nasal epithelial cultures and efficiently uses the endosomal route of entry

TP Peacock, JC Brown, J Zhou, N Thakur… - …, 2022 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
At the end of 2021 a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, emerged and quickly spread across
the world. It has been demonstrated that Omicron’s high number of Spike mutations lead to …

[HTML][HTML] The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

…, ZA Butt, PJ Cardona, D Christopher… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background An understanding of the trends in tuberculosis incidence, prevalence, and mortality
is crucial to tracking of the success of tuberculosis control programmes and identification …

The altered entry pathway and antigenic distance of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant map to separate domains of spike protein

TP Peacock, JC Brown, J Zhou, N Thakur, K Sukhova… - biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
At the end of 2021 a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, emerged and quickly spread across
the world. It has been demonstrated that Omicron’s high number of Spike mutations lead to …