Publications

Estimating changes in antibiotic consumption in the USA with the introduction of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis.

Author(s): Roster KIO, Grad YH|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 37883986| October 2023

Resistance-minimising strategies for introducing a novel antibiotic for gonorrhoea treatment: a mathematical modelling study.

Author(s): Reichert E, Yaesoubi R, Rönn MM, Gift TL, Salomon JA, Grad YH|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 37619582| October 2023

Gonorrhoea is a highly prevalent sexually transmitted infection and an urgent public health concern because of increasing antibiotic resistance in…

Resistance-minimising strategies for introducing a novel antibiotic for gonorrhoea treatment: a mathematical modelling study

Author(s): Reichert E, Yaesoubi R, Rönn MM, Gift TL, Salomon JA, Grad YH|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 37619582| August 2023

Gonorrhoea is a highly prevalent sexually transmitted infection and an urgent public health concern because of increasing antibiotic resistance in…

Neisseria gonorrhoeae diagnostic escape from a gyrA-based test for ciprofloxacin susceptibility and the effect on zoliflodacin resistance: a bacterial genetics and experimental evolution study.

Author(s): Rubin DH, Mortimer TD, Grad YH|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 36868257| February 2023

The aetiological bacterial agent of gonorrhoea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has become resistant to each of the first-line antibiotics used to treat…

Causal discovery for the microbiome.

Author(s): Corander J, Hanage WP, Pensar J|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 36152674| September 2022

Measurement and manipulation of the microbiome is generally considered to have great potential for understanding the causes of complex diseases…

Methods for early characterisation of the severity and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants: a population-based time series analysis in South Africa.

Author(s): Reichert E, Schaeffer B, Gantt S, Rumpler E, Govender N, Welch R, Shonhiwa AM, Iwu CD, Lamola TM, Moema-Matiea I, Muganhiri D, Hanage W, Santillana M, Jassat W, Cohen C, Swerdlow D|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 36057266| August 2022

Assessment of disease severity associated with a novel pathogen or variant provides crucial information needed by public health agencies and…

Loci for prediction of penicillin and tetracycline susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a genome-wide association study.

Author(s): Mortimer TD, Zhang JJ, Ma KC, Grad YH|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 35544098| May 2022

Neisseria gonorrhoeae poses an urgent public health threat because of increasing antimicrobial resistance; however, much of the circulating population remains…

Reporting practices for genomic epidemiology of tuberculosis: a systematic review of the literature using STROME-ID guidelines as a benchmark.

Author(s): Cheng B, Behr MA, Howden BP, Cohen T, Lee RS|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 33842904| August 2021

Pathogen genomics have become increasingly important in infectious disease epidemiology and public health. The Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology…

Perfect as the enemy of good: tracing transmissions with low-sensitivity tests to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks.

Author(s): Kennedy-Shaffer L, Baym M, Hanage WP|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 33748803| March 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and individuals have attempted a wide variety of strategies to limit the damage of the…

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong returnees.

Author(s): Hanage WP, Vincent VI, Low NM|Journal: Lancet Microbe|PMID: 33521713| August 2020