Publications

Host population structure and treatment frequency maintain balancing selection on drug resistance.

Author(s): Cobey S, Baskerville EB, Colijn C, Hanage W, Fraser C, Lipsitch M|Journal: J R Soc Interface|PMID: 28835542| August 2017

It is a truism that antimicrobial drugs select for resistance, but explaining pathogen- and population-specific variation in patterns of resistance…

Evolution of antibiotic resistance is linked to any genetic mechanism affecting bacterial duration of carriage.

Author(s): Lehtinen S, Blanquart F, Croucher NJ, Turner P, Lipsitch M, Fraser C|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 28096340| January 2017

Understanding how changes in antibiotic consumption affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is important for public health.…

Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Barclay W, Raman R, Russell CJ, Belser JA, Cobey S, Kasson PM, Lloyd-Smith JO, Maurer-Stroh S, Riley S, Beauchemin CA, Bedford T, Friedrich TC, Handel A, Herfst S, Murcia PR, Roche B, Wilke CO, Russell CA|Journal: Elife|PMID: 27834632| November 2016

The threat of an influenza A virus pandemic stems from continual virus spillovers from reservoir species, a tiny fraction of…

Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Donnelly CA, Fraser C, Blake IM, Cori A, Dorigatti I, Ferguson NM, Garske T, Mills HL, Riley S, Van Kerkhove MD, Hernán MA|Journal: PLoS Negl Trop Dis|PMID: 26181387| July 2015

Estimating the case-fatality risk (CFR)-the probability that a person dies from an infection given that they are a case-is a…

Improving pandemic influenza risk assessment.

Author(s): Russell CA, Kasson PM, Donis RO, Riley S, Dunbar J, Rambaut A, Asher J, Burke S, Davis CT, Garten RJ, Gnanakaran S, Hay SI, Herfst S, Lewis NS, Lloyd-Smith JO, Macken CA, Maurer-Stroh S, Neuhaus E, Parrish CR, Pepin KM, Shepard SS, Smith DL, Suarez DL, Trock SC, Widdowson MA, George DB, Lipsitch M, Bloom JD|Journal: Elife|PMID: 25321142| October 2014

Assessing the pandemic risk posed by specific non-human influenza A viruses is an important goal in public health research. As…