Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

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 YHJournal: Lancet MicrobePMID: 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 RSJournal: Lancet MicrobePMID: 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 WPJournal: Lancet MicrobePMID: 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 NMJournal: Lancet MicrobePMID: 33521713 August 2020

Reproducibility in science: important or incremental?

Author(s): Lee RS, Hanage WPJournal: Lancet MicrobePMID: 32835329 June 2020

In 2016, a survey was published in Nature in which more than 50% of researchers agreed that there was a…