Henrik Vedel Nielsen

Human infection with an ape Plasmodium vivax-like parasite

The paper reports a case of human infection with an ape-like Plasmodium vivax parasite, identified through whole-genome sequencing, suggesting zoonotic transmission from wild gorillas and chimpanzees.

Whole-genome prediction of bacterial pathogenic capacity on novel bacteria using protein language models, with PathogenFinder2

A ProtT5-embedding, ConvNext-plus-attention ensemble predicts human pathogenic capacity from whole bacterial genomes, outperforming prior predictors on species absent from training and flagging influential proteins.