Publications – Page 3 – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Shoe Leather Infectious Disease Modeling?

Author(s): Murray MBJournal: Clin Infect Dis August 2020

Shoe Leather Epidemiology: “Collection of epidemiological and other pertinent data relevant to an epidemiological investigation by painstaking direct inquiry among…

Implications of test characteristics and population seroprevalence on ‘immune passport’ strategies.

Author(s): Larremore DB, Bubar KM, Grad YHJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 32687149 July 2020

Various forms of 'immune passports' or 'antibody certificates' are being considered in conversations around reopening economies after periods of social…

To Interpret the SARS-CoV-2 Test, Consider the Cycle Threshold Value.

Author(s): Tom MR, Mina MJJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 32435816 May 2020

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, it is important to identify and isolate people who are infectious.It is especially important…

Distinguishing the roles of antibiotic stewardship and reductions in outpatient visits in generating a five-year decline in antibiotic prescribing.

Author(s): Kissler SM, Klevens RM, Barnett ML, Grad YHJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 32173727 March 2020

The mechanisms driving the recent decline in outpatient antibiotic prescribing are unknown. We estimated the extent to which reductions in…

Two clinical prediction tools to improve tuberculosis contact investigation.

Author(s): Li R, Nordio F, Huang CC, Contreras C, Calderon R, Yataco R, Galea JT, Zhang Z, Becerra MC, Lecca L, Murray MBJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 31905406 January 2020

Efficient contact investigation strategies are needed for the early diagnosis of TB disease and treatment of latent TB infections.

Streptococcus pyogenes with reduced susceptibility to β-lactams: how big an alarm bell?

Author(s): Hanage WP, Shelburne SAJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 31630163 October 2019

Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize in 1945. In his lecture upon receipt of the prize, he warned that use…

Depletion of Susceptibles Bias in Analyses of Intra-season Waning of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness.

Author(s): Ray GT, Lewis N, Klein NP, Daley MF, Lipsitch M, Fireman BJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 31351439 August 2019

Bias arises in studies of waning vaccine effectiveness when higher-risk individuals are depleted from the population at-risk, at different rates…

Early signals of vaccine driven perturbation seen in pneumococcal carriage population genomic data.

Author(s): Chaguza C, Heinsbroek E, Gladstone RA, Tafatatha T, Alaerts M, Peno C, Cornick JE, Musicha P, Bar-Zeev N, Kamng'ona A, Kadioglu A, McGee L, Hanage WP, Breiman RF, Heyderman RS, French N, Everett DB, Bentley SDJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 31094423 June 2019

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) have reduced pneumococcal diseases globally. Pneumococcal genomic surveys elucidate PCV effects on population structure but are…

Potential for Erosion of Efficacy in Non-Inferiority Trials of Decreasing Duration of Antibiotic Therapy.

Author(s): MacFadden DR, Hanage WPJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 30726884 February 2019

The Relative Impact of Community and Hospital Antibiotic Use on the Selection of Extended-Spectrum Beta-lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli.

Author(s): MacFadden DR, Fisman DN, Hanage WP, Lipsitch MJournal: Clin Infect DisPMID: 30462185 November 2018

Antibiotic stewardship programs have traditionally focused on reducing antibiotic use in hospital. However, reducing community antibiotic prescribing could have substantial…