Publications – Page 10 – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Qureshi T, Boni MF, Sundsøy PR, Johansson MA, Rasheed SB, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee COJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 26351662 September 2015

The recent emergence of dengue viruses into new susceptible human populations throughout Asia and the Middle East, driven in part…

Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Metcalf CJ, Eagle N, Kombich J, Grenfell BT, Bjørnstad ON, Lessler J, Tatem AJ, Buckee COJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 26283349 September 2015

Changing patterns of human aggregation are thought to drive annual and multiannual outbreaks of infectious diseases, but the paucity of…

Vaccination Drives Changes in Metabolic and Virulence Profiles of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Author(s): Watkins ER, Penman BS, Lourenço J, Buckee CO, Maiden MC, Gupta SJournal: PLoS PathogPMID: 26181911 July 2015

The bacterial pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), is a leading cause of life-threatening illness and death worldwide. Available conjugate vaccines…

Evaluating Spatial Interaction Models for Regional Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, O'Meara WP, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Buckee COJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 26158274 July 2015

Simple spatial interaction models of human mobility based on physical laws have been used extensively in the social, biological, and…

Measuring the association between artemisinin-based case management and malaria incidence in southern Vietnam, 1991-2010.

Author(s): Peak CM, Thuan PD, Britton A, Nguyen TD, Wolbers M, Thanh NV, Buckee CO, Boni MFJournal: Am J Trop Med HygPMID: 25667053 April 2015

In addition to being effective, fast-acting, and well tolerated, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are able to kill certain transmission stages…

Dissecting the determinants of malaria chronicity: why within-host models struggle to reproduce infection dynamics.

Author(s): Childs LM, Buckee COJournal: J R Soc InterfacePMID: 25673299 March 2015

The duration of infection is fundamental to the epidemiological behaviour of any infectious disease, but remains one of the most…

Modelling challenges in context: lessons from malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.

Author(s): Childs LM, Abuelezam NN, Dye C, Gupta S, Murray MB, Williams BG, Buckee COJournal: EpidemicsPMID: 25843394 March 2015

Malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis (TB) collectively account for several million deaths each year, with all three ranking among the top…

Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, O'Meara WP, Tatem AJ, Ndege S, Eagle N, Buckee COJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 25643101 March 2015

Poor physical access to health facilities has been identified as an important contributor to reduced uptake of preventive health services…

Immune characterization of Plasmodium falciparum parasites with a shared genetic signature in a region of decreasing transmission.

Author(s): Bei AK, Diouf A, Miura K, Larremore DB, Ribacke U, Tullo G, Moss EL, Neafsey DE, Daniels RF, Zeituni AE, Nosamiefan I, Volkman SK, Ahouidi AD, Ndiaye D, Dieye T, Mboup S, Buckee CO, Long CA, Wirth DFJournal: Infect ImmunPMID: 25368109 January 2015

As the intensity of malaria transmission has declined, Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations have displayed decreased clonal diversity resulting from the…

Contrasting within- and between-host immune selection shapes Neisseria Opa repertoires.

Author(s): Watkins ER, Grad YH, Gupta S, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 25296566 October 2014

Pathogen evolution is influenced strongly by the host immune response. Previous studies of the effects of herd immunity on the…