Population biology of Gram-positive pathogens: high-risk clones for dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Author(s): Willems RJ, Hanage WP, Bessen DE, Feil EJ|Journal: FEMS Microbiol Rev|PMID: 21658083| September 2011 Infections caused by multiresistant Gram-positive bacteria represent a major health burden in the community as well as in hospitalized patients.…
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…
Pre-dispensing of antivirals to high-risk individuals in an influenza pandemic. Author(s): Goldstein E, Miller JC, O'Hagan JJ, Lipsitch M|Journal: Influenza Other Respir Viruses|PMID: 20167050| March 2010 We consider the net benefits of pre-dispensing antivirals to high-risk individuals during an influenza pandemic, where the measure of the…
Estimation of the reproductive number and the serial interval in early phase of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in the USA. Author(s): White LF, Wallinga J, Finelli L, Reed C, Riley S, Lipsitch M, Pagano M|Journal: Influenza Other Respir Viruses|PMID: 19903209| November 2009 The United States was the second country to have a major outbreak of novel influenza A/H1N1 in what has become…
