Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Successful treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised patient with persistent infection for 245 days: A case report.

Author(s): Overbeck V, Taylor BP, Turcinovic J, Qiu X, Schaeffer B, Seitz S, Curry SR, Hanage WP, Connor JH, Kuppalli KJournal: HeliyonPMID: 38223743 December 2023

Immunocompromised patients receiving B-cell-depleting therapies are at increased risk of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection, with many experiencing fatal outcomes. We report…

Linking contact tracing with genomic surveillance to deconvolute SARS-CoV-2 transmission on a university campus.

Author(s): Turcinovic J, Kuhfeldt K, Sullivan M, Landaverde L, Platt JT, Doucette-Stamm L, Hanage WP, Hamer DH, Klapperich C, Landsberg HE, Connor JHJournal: iSciencePMID: 36246573 October 2022

Contact tracing and genomic data, approaches often used separately, have both been important tools in understanding the nature of SARS-CoV-2…

Understanding early pandemic SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a medical center by incorporating public sequencing databases to mitigate bias.

Author(s): Turcinovic J, Schaeffer B, Taylor BP, Bouton TC, Odom-Mabey AR, Weber SE, Lodi S, Ragan EJ, Connor JH, Jacobson KR, Hanage WPJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 35993116 August 2022

Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) have faced risk of infection from within the workplace via patients and staff…

Early introduction and rise of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in highly vaccinated university populations.

Author(s): Petros BA, Turcinovic J, Welch NL, White LF, Kolaczyk ED, Bauer MR, Cleary M, Dobbins ST, Doucette-Stamm L, Gore M, Nair P, Nguyen TG, Rose S, Taylor BP, Tsang D, Wendlandt E, Hope M, Platt JT, Jacobson KR, Bouton T, Yune S, Auclair JR, Landaverde L, Klapperich CM, Hamer DH, Hanage WP, MacInnis BL, Sabeti PC, Connor JH, Springer MJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 35616119 May 2022

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is highly transmissible in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. The dynamics governing its establishment and propensity…

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Impact on Rates of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Cases and Postvaccination Strain Sequences Among Health Care Workers at an Urban Academic Medical Center: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Author(s): Bouton TC, Lodi S, Turcinovic J, Schaeffer B, Weber SE, Quinn E, Korn C, Steiner J, Schechter-Perkins EM, Duffy E, Ragan EJ, Taylor BP, Miller N, Davidoff R, Hanage WP, Connor J, Pierre C, Jacobson KRJournal: Open Forum Infect DisPMID: 34646910 September 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trials and post-implementation data suggest that vaccination decreases infections. We examine vaccination's impact on severe…