Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Viral Shedding and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic and Paucisymptomatic Influenza Virus Infections in the Community.

Author(s): Ip DK, Lau LL, Leung NH, Fang VJ, Chan KH, Chu DK, Leung GM, Peiris JS, Uyeki TM, Cowling BJJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 28011603 March 2017

Influenza virus infections are associated with a wide spectrum of disease. However, few studies have investigated in detail the epidemiological…

Heterogeneity in viral shedding among individuals with medically attended influenza A virus infection.

Author(s): Lau LL, Ip DK, Nishiura H, Fang VJ, Chan KH, Peiris JS, Leung GM, Cowling BJJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 23382573 April 2013

Compared with the average transmissibility of human influenza A virus, much less attention has been paid to the potential variability…

Household transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1): a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Author(s): Lau LL, Nishiura H, Kelly H, Ip DK, Leung GM, Cowling BJJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 22561117 July 2012

During the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, household transmission studies were implemented to better understand the characteristics of the transmission…

Viral shedding and clinical illness in naturally acquired influenza virus infections.

Author(s): Lau LL, Cowling BJ, Fang VJ, Chan KH, Lau EH, Lipsitch M, Cheng CK, Houck PM, Uyeki TM, Peiris JS, Leung GMJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 20377412 May 2010

Volunteer challenge studies have provided detailed data on viral shedding from the respiratory tract before and through the course of…