Publications

The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009.

Author(s): Jacobs JH, Viboud C, Tchetgen ET, Schwartz J, Steiner C, Simonsen L, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 25265409| September 2014

Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza…

Age- and sex-related risk factors for influenza-associated mortality in the United States between 1997-2007.

Author(s): Quandelacy TM, Viboud C, Charu V, Lipsitch M, Goldstein E|Journal: Am J Epidemiol|PMID: 24190951| January 2014

Limited information on age- and sex-specific estimates of influenza-associated death with different underlying causes is currently available. We regressed weekly…

Improving the estimation of influenza-related mortality over a seasonal baseline.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Viboud C, Charu V, Lipsitch M|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 22992574| November 2012

Existing methods for estimation of mortality attributable to influenza are limited by methodological and data uncertainty. We have used proxies…

Modelling seasonal variations in the age and incidence of Kawasaki disease to explore possible infectious aetiologies.

Author(s): Pitzer VE, Burgner D, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Andreasen V, Steiner CA, Lipsitch M|Journal: Proc Biol Sci|PMID: 22398170| July 2012

The average age of infection is expected to vary during seasonal epidemics in a way that is predictable from the…

Searching for sharp drops in the incidence of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza by single year of age.

Author(s): Jacobs JH, Archer BN, Baker MG, Cowling BJ, Heffernan RT, Mercer G, Uez O, Hanshaoworakul W, Viboud C, Schwartz J, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 22876316| January 2012

During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1), morbidity and mortality sparing was observed among the elderly population; it was hypothesized that…

Absolute humidity and the seasonal onset of influenza in the continental United States.

Author(s): Shaman J, Pitzer VE, Viboud C, Grenfell BT, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS Biol|PMID: 20186267| February 2010

Much of the observed wintertime increase of mortality in temperate regions is attributed to seasonal influenza. A recent reanalysis of…

Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental US.

Author(s): Shaman J, Pitzer V, Viboud C, Lipsitch M, Grenfell B|Journal: PLoS Curr|PMID: 20066155| December 2009

Much of the observed wintertime increase of mortality in temperate regions is attributed to seasonal influenza. A recent re-analysis of…