Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Socioeconomic status determines COVID-19 incidence and related mortality in Santiago, Chile

Author(s): Mena GE, Martinez PP, Mahmud A, Marquet P, Buckee C, Santillana MJournal: medRxiv January 2021

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted dense urban populations particularly hard. Here, we provide an in-depth characterization…

Frequency-dependent selection can forecast evolution in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Author(s): Azarian T, Martinez PP, Arnold BJ, Qiu X, Grant LR, Corander J, Fraser C, Croucher NJ, Hammitt LL, Reid R, Santosham M, Weatherholtz RC, Bentley SD, O'Brien KL, Lipsitch M, Hanage WPJournal: PLoS BiolPMID: 33091022 October 2020

Predicting how pathogen populations will change over time is challenging. Such has been the case with Streptococcus pneumoniae, an important…

Tube Well Use as Protection Against Rotavirus Infection During the Monsoons in an Urban Setting.

Author(s): Martinez PP, Mahmud AS, Yunus M, Faruque ASG, Ahmed T, Pascual M, Buckee COJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 31776559 November 2019

Rotavirus, a diarrheal pathogen spread via fecal-oral transmission, is typically characterized by a winter incidence peak in most countries. Unlike…