Welcome to This Week in Infectious Disease. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning global health prevention, neonatal sepsis, and the evolving landscape of viral infections. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Understanding and exploiting superspreading to disrupt Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission. — The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2026
2. Post-mortem characterisation of pathogen-specific causes of infection-related deaths in African and south Asian neonates: a prospective, observational, multicentre study. — The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2026
3. Sex-specific presentation, epidemiology, and control of schistosomiasis in women and adolescent girls. — The Lancet. Global health 2026
4. Ensitrelvir for Covid-19 Postexposure Prophylaxis in Household Contacts. — The New England journal of medicine 2026
5. Contribution of nosocomial transmission to Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: An observational study of infection clusters inferred from pathogen genomics and temporal data. — PLoS medicine 2026
6. Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence averted by eliminating undernutrition in adults: a modelling study. — The Lancet. Global health 2026
7. Impact of introducing RTS,S/AS01malaria vaccine on mortality in young children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi: an observational evaluation of a cluster-randomised implementation programme. — Lancet (London, England) 2026
8. Respiratory viral infections prime accelerated lung cancer growth. — Cell 2026

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