Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Optimal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allocation using real-time attack-rate estimates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Author(s): Tran TN, Wikle NB, Albert E, Inam H, Strong E, Břinda K, Leighow SM, Yang F, Hossain S, Pritchard JR, Chan P, Hanage WP, Hanks EM, Boni MFJournal: BMC MedPMID: 34253200 July 2021

When three SARS-CoV-2 vaccines came to market in Europe and North America in the winter of 2020-2021, distribution networks were…

Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Author(s): Menkir TF, Chin T, Hay JA, Surface ED, De Salazar PM, Buckee CO, Watts A, Khan K, Sherbo R, Yan AWC, Mina MJ, Lipsitch M, Niehus RJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 33436574 January 2021

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions of international outbreaks were largely based on imported cases from Wuhan, China, potentially missing…

Individual quarantine versus active monitoring of contacts for the mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study.

Author(s): Peak CM, Kahn R, Grad YH, Childs LM, Lipsitch M, Buckee COJournal: Lancet Infect DisPMID: 32445710 May 2020

Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as…

Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States.

Author(s): Wohl S, Metsky HC, Schaffner SF, Piantadosi A, Burns M, Lewnard JA, Chak B, Krasilnikova LA, Siddle KJ, Matranga CB, Bankamp B, Hennigan S, Sabina B, Byrne EH, McNall RJ, Shah RR, Qu J, Park DJ, Gharib S, Fitzgerald S, Barreira P, Fleming S, Lett S, Rota PA, Madoff LC, Yozwiak NL, MacInnis BL, Smole S, Grad YH, Sabeti PCJournal: PLoS BiolPMID: 32045407 February 2020

Unusually large outbreaks of mumps across the United States in 2016 and 2017 raised questions about the extent of mumps…

Hospitalizations associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza in children, including children diagnosed with asthma.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Finelli L, O'Halloran A, Liu P, Karaca Z, Steiner CA, Viboud C, Lipsitch MJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 31469696 November 2019

There is uncertainty about the burden of hospitalization associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza in children, including those…

Mapping imported malaria in Bangladesh using parasite genetic and human mobility data.

Author(s): Chang HH, Wesolowski A, Sinha I, Jacob CG, Mahmud A, Uddin D, Zaman SI, Hossain MA, Faiz MA, Ghose A, Sayeed AA, Rahman MR, Islam A, Karim MJ, Rezwan MK, Shamsuzzaman AKM, Jhora ST, Aktaruzzaman MM, Drury E, Gonçalves S, Kekre M, Dhorda M, Vongpromek R, Miotto O, Engø-Monsen K, Kwiatkowski D, Maude RJ, Buckee CJournal: ElifePMID: 30938289 August 2019

For countries aiming for malaria elimination, travel of infected individuals between endemic areas undermines local interventions. Quantifying parasite importation has…

Influenza A Hemagglutinin Passage Bias Sites and Host Specificity Mutations.

Author(s): Lee RTC, Chang HH, Russell CA, Lipsitch M, Maurer-Stroh SJournal: CellsPMID: 31443542 August 2019

Animal studies aimed at understanding influenza virus mutations that change host specificity to adapt to replication in mammalian hosts are…

Antimicrobial resistance prevalence, rates of hospitalization with septicemia and rates of mortality with sepsis in adults in different US states.

Author(s): Goldstein E, MacFadden DR, Karaca Z, Steiner CA, Viboud C, Lipsitch MJournal: Int J Antimicrob AgentsPMID: 30851403 May 2019

Rates of hospitalization with sepsis/septicemia and associated mortality in the US have risen significantly during the last two decades. Antibiotic…

The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance.

Author(s): Olesen SW, Barnett ML, MacFadden DR, Brownstein JS, Hernández-Díaz S, Lipsitch M, Grad YHJournal: ElifePMID: 30560781 December 2018

Antibiotic use is a primary driver of antibiotic resistance. However, antibiotic use can be distributed in different ways in a…

Estimating the proportion of bystander selection for antibiotic resistance among potentially pathogenic bacterial flora.

Author(s): Tedijanto C, Olesen SW, Grad YH, Lipsitch MJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 30559213 December 2018

Bystander selection-the selective pressure for resistance exerted by antibiotics on microbes that are not the target pathogen of treatment-is critical…