Publications

Deep-sequence phylogenetics to quantify patterns of HIV transmission in the context of a universal testing and treatment trial – BCPP/ Ya Tsie trial.

Author(s): Magosi LE, Zhang Y, Golubchik T, DeGruttola V, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Novitsky V, Moore J, Bachanas P, Segolodi T, Lebelonyane R, Pretorius Holme M, Moyo S, Makhema J, Lockman S, Fraser C, Essex MM, Lipsitch M, Botswana Combination Prevention Project and the PANGEA consortium.|Journal: Elife|PMID: 35229714| March 2022

Mathematical models predict that community-wide access to HIV testing-and-treatment can rapidly and substantially reduce new HIV infections. Yet several large…

Estimating rates of carriage acquisition and clearance and competitive ability for pneumococcal serotypes in Kenya with a Markov transition model.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Abdullahi O, DʼAmour A, Xie W, Weinberger DM, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Scott JA|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 22441543| July 2012

There are more than 90 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, with varying biologic and epidemiologic properties. Animal studies suggest that carriage…

Searching for sharp drops in the incidence of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza by single year of age.

Author(s): Jacobs JH, Archer BN, Baker MG, Cowling BJ, Heffernan RT, Mercer G, Uez O, Hanshaoworakul W, Viboud C, Schwartz J, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 22876316| January 2012

During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1), morbidity and mortality sparing was observed among the elderly population; it was hypothesized that…

Negative controls: a tool for detecting confounding and bias in observational studies.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Cohen T|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 20335814| May 2010

Noncausal associations between exposures and outcomes are a threat to validity of causal inference in observational studies. Many techniques have…