Publications

Genomic epidemiology of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST22 widespread in communities of the Gaza Strip, 2009.

Author(s): Chang Q, Abuelaish I, Biber A, Jaber H, Callendrello A, Andam CP, Regev-Yochay G, Hanage WP, On Behalf Of The Picr Study Group|Journal: Euro Surveill|PMID: 30153881| August 2018

BackgroundRemarkably high carriage prevalence of a community-associated meticillin-resistant (MRSA) strain of sequence type (ST) 22 in the Gaza strip was…

Genomic Epidemiology of Penicillin-Nonsusceptible Pneumococci with Nonvaccine Serotypes Causing Invasive Disease in the United States.

Author(s): Andam CP, Mitchell PK, Callendrello A, Chang Q, Corander J, Chaguza C, McGee L, Beall BW, Hanage WP|Journal: J Clin Microbiol|PMID: 28100596| April 2017

Conjugate vaccination against seven pneumococcal serotypes (PCV7) reduced disease prevalence due to antibiotic-resistant strains throughout the 2000s. However, diseases caused…

Impact of Host Heterogeneity on the Efficacy of Interventions to Reduce Staphylococcus aureus Carriage.

Author(s): Chang Q, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP|Journal: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol|PMID: 26598029| February 2016

Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of bacterial infections worldwide. It is most commonly carried in and transmitted from the…

Antibiotics in agriculture and the risk to human health: how worried should we be?

Author(s): Chang Q, Wang W, Regev-Yochay G, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP|Journal: Evol Appl|PMID: 25861382| March 2015

The use of antibiotics in agriculture is routinely described as a major contributor to the clinical problem of resistant disease…

Stability of the pneumococcal population structure in Massachusetts as PCV13 was introduced.

Author(s): Chang Q, Stevenson AE, Croucher NJ, Lee GM, Pelton SI, Lipsitch M, Finkelstein JA, Hanage WP|Journal: BMC Infect Dis|PMID: 25887323| February 2015

The success of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) introduced to the US childhood immunization schedule in 2000 was partially offset…