Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from Covid-19.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YHJournal: Front Public HealthPMID: 39076420 July 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to upgrade systems for infectious disease surveillance and forecasting and modeling of the…

Examining the role of different age groups, and of vaccination during the 2012 Minnesota pertussis outbreak.

Author(s): Worby CJ, Kenyon C, Lynfield R, Lipsitch M, Goldstein EJournal: Sci RepPMID: 26278132 August 2015

There is limited information on the roles of different age groups during pertussis outbreaks. Little is known about vaccine effectiveness…

Geographic and temporal trends in antimicrobial nonsusceptibility in Streptococcus pneumoniae in the post-vaccine era in the United States.

Author(s): Link-Gelles R, Thomas A, Lynfield R, Petit S, Schaffner W, Harrison L, Farley MM, Aragon D, Nicols M, Kirley PD, Zansky S, Jorgensen J, Juni BA, Jackson D, Moore MR, Lipsitch MJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 23852588 October 2013

We examined whether observed increases in antibiotic nonsusceptible nonvaccine serotypes after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the United States…