Publications

Linking surveillance with action against drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Author(s): Cohen T, Manjourides J, Hedt-Gauthier B|Journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med|PMID: 22592806| September 2012

The speed at which most countries with high burdens of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) have scaled up their capacity to diagnose…

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 BJ|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 22561117| July 2012

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

Identifying multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission hotspots using routinely collected data.

Author(s): Manjourides J, Lin HH, Shin S, Jeffery C, Contreras C, Cruz JS, Jave O, Yagui M, Asencios L, Pagano M, Cohen T|Journal: Tuberculosis (Edinb)|PMID: 22401962| May 2012

In most countries with large drug resistant tuberculosis epidemics, only those cases that are at highest risk of having MDRTB…

The dynamics of sexual contact networks: effects on disease spread and control.

Author(s): Robinson K, Cohen T, Colijn C|Journal: Theor Popul Biol|PMID: 22248701| March 2012

Sexually transmitted pathogens persist in populations despite the availability of biomedical interventions and knowledge of behavioural changes that would reduce…

Estimating the transmission potential of supercritical processes based on the final size distribution of minor outbreaks.

Author(s): Nishiura H, Yan P, Sleeman CK, Mode CJ|Journal: J Theor Biol|PMID: 22079419| February 2012

Use of the final size distribution of minor outbreaks for the estimation of the reproduction numbers of supercritical epidemic processes…

Generalized Markov Models of Infectious Disease Spread: A Novel Framework for Developing Dynamic Health Policies.

Author(s): Yaesoubi R, Cohen T|Journal: Eur J Oper Res|PMID: 21966083| December 2011

We propose a class of mathematical models for the transmission of infectious diseases in large populations. This class of models,…

Assessing spatiotemporal patterns of multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis in a South American setting.

Author(s): Lin H, Shin S, Blaya JA, Zhang Z, Cegielski P, Contreras C, Asencios L, Bonilla C, Bayona J, Paciorek CJ, Cohen T|Journal: Epidemiol Infect|PMID: 21205434| November 2011

We examined the spatiotemporal distribution of laboratory-confirmed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) cases and that of other TB cases in Lima,…

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.…

The influence of social-cognitive factors on personal hygiene practices to protect against influenzas: using modelling to compare avian A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenzas in Hong Kong.

Author(s): Liao Q, Cowling BJ, Lam WW, Fielding R|Journal: Int J Behav Med|PMID: 20949342| June 2011

Understanding population responses to influenza helps optimize public health interventions. Relevant theoretical frameworks remain nascent.

The infection attack rate and severity of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza in Hong Kong.

Author(s): Wu JT, Ma ES, Lee CK, Chu DK, Ho PL, Shen AL, Ho A, Hung IF, Riley S, Ho LM, Lin CK, Tsang T, Lo SV, Lau YL, Leung GM, Cowling BJ, Malik Peiris JS|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 20964521| November 2010

Serial cross-sectional data on antibody levels to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus from a population can be used…