Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Sociodemographic characteristics of missing data in digital phenotyping.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Alexander MJ, Baker JT, Buckner RL, Coombs G 3rd, Rich-Edwards JW, Carlson KW, Onnela JPJournal: Sci RepPMID: 34326370 July 2021

The ubiquity of smartphones, with their increasingly sophisticated array of sensors, presents an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to collect longitudinal,…

Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2.

Author(s): Kishore N, Kahn R, Martinez PP, De Salazar PM, Mahmud AS, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 33772076 March 2021

In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unprecedented travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders were enacted around the world. Ultimately, the public's…

Synthetic mycobacterial diacyl trehaloses reveal differential recognition by human T cell receptors and the C-type lectin Mincle.

Author(s): Reijneveld JF, Holzheimer M, Young DC, Lopez K, Suliman S, Jimenez J, Calderon R, Lecca L, Murray MB, Ishikawa E, Yamasaki S, Minnaard AJ, Moody DB, Van Rhijn IJournal: Sci RepPMID: 33479373 January 2021

The cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is composed of diverse glycolipids which potentially interact with the human immune system. To…

Incorporating human mobility data improves forecasts of Dengue fever in Thailand.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Santillana M, Chen JT, Onnela JP, Krieger N, Engø-Monsen K, Ekapirat N, Areechokchai D, Prempree P, Maude RJ, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 33441598 January 2021

Over 390 million people worldwide are infected with dengue fever each year. In the absence of an effective vaccine for…

The role of environmental factors on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak: an initial assessment in two spatial scales.

Author(s): Poirier C, Luo W, Majumder MS, Liu D, Mandl KD, Mooring TA, Santillana MJournal: Sci RepPMID: 33046802 October 2020

First identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has affected over 16,800,000 people worldwide as of…

Limited available evidence supports theoretical predictions of reduced vaccine efficacy at higher exposure dose.

Author(s): Langwig KE, Gomes MGM, Clark MD, Kwitny M, Yamada S, Wargo AR, Lipsitch MJournal: Sci RepPMID: 30824732 May 2019

Understanding the causes of vaccine failure is important for predicting disease dynamics in vaccinated populations and planning disease interventions. Pathogen…

Evaluating the performance of infectious disease forecasts: A comparison of climate-driven and seasonal dengue forecasts for Mexico.

Author(s): Johansson MA, Reich NG, Hota A, Brownstein JS, Santillana MJournal: Sci RepPMID: 27665707 September 2016

Dengue viruses, which infect millions of people per year worldwide, cause large epidemics that strain healthcare systems. Despite diverse efforts…

Persistence of Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia after artemisinin combination therapy: evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda.

Author(s): Chang HH, Meibalan E, Zelin J, Daniels R, Eziefula AC, Meyer EC, Tadesse F, Grignard L, Joice RC, Drakeley C, Wirth DF, Volkman SK, Buckee C, Bousema T, Marti MJournal: Sci RepPMID: 27197604 May 2016

Artemisinin resistance is rapidly spreading in Southeast Asia. The efficacy of artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT) continues to be excellent across Africa.…

Variation in infection length and superinfection enhance selection efficiency in the human malaria parasite.

Author(s): Chang HH, Childs LM, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 27193195 May 2016

The capacity for adaptation is central to the evolutionary success of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria epidemiology is…

Altered drug susceptibility during host adaptation of a Plasmodium falciparum strain in a non-human primate model.

Author(s): Obaldía N 3rd, Dow GS, Gerena L, Kyle D, Otero W, Mantel PY, Baro N, Daniels R, Mukherjee A, Childs LM, Buckee C, Duraisingh MT, Volkman SK, Wirth DF, Marti MJournal: Sci RepPMID: 26880111 February 2016

Infections with Plasmodium falciparum, the most pathogenic of the Plasmodium species affecting man, have been reduced in part due to…