Publications

Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening.

Author(s): Larremore DB, Wilder B, Lester E, Shehata S, Burke JM, Hay JA, Tambe M, Mina MJ, Parker R|Journal: Sci Adv|PMID: 33219112| November 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can spread from individuals with pre-symptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic…

Horizontal gene transfer rate is not the primary determinant of observed antibiotic resistance frequencies in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Author(s): Lehtinen S, Chewapreecha C, Lees J, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Croucher NJ, Bentley SD, Turner P, Fraser C, Mostowy RJ|Journal: Sci Adv|PMID: 32671212| May 2020

The extent to which evolution is constrained by the rate at which horizontal gene transfer (HGT) allows DNA to move…