Publications – Page 3 – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Zika vaccine trials.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Cowling BJJournal: SciencePMID: 27609872 September 2016

Vaccine testing. Ebola and beyond.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Eyal N, Halloran ME, Hernán MA, Longini IM, Perencevich EN, Grais RFJournal: SciencePMID: 25838371 April 2015

Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Smith DL, Noor AM, Snow RW, Buckee COJournal: SciencePMID: 23066082 October 2012

Human movements contribute to the transmission of malaria on spatial scales that exceed the limits of mosquito dispersal. Identifying the…

Evolution, safety, and highly pathogenic influenza viruses.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Plotkin JB, Simonsen L, Bloom BJournal: SciencePMID: 22723411 June 2012

Experience with influenza has shown that predictions of virus phenotype or fitness from nucleotide sequence are imperfect and that predicting…

Comment on “Seroevidence for H5N1 influenza infections in humans: meta-analysis”.

Author(s): Van Kerkhove MD, Riley S, Lipsitch M, Guan Y, Monto AS, Webster RG, Zambon M, Nicoll A, Peiris JS, Ferguson NMJournal: SciencePMID: 22723396 June 2012

A better understanding of the severity of H5N1 in humans is needed. Wang et al. (Brevia, 23 March 2012, p.…

Niche and neutral effects of acquired immunity permit coexistence of pneumococcal serotypes.

Author(s): Cobey S, Lipsitch MJournal: SciencePMID: 22383809 March 2012

Over 90 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a common nasopharyngeal colonizer and major cause of pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis, are…

Rapid pneumococcal evolution in response to clinical interventions.

Author(s): Croucher NJ, Harris SR, Fraser C, Quail MA, Burton J, van der Linden M, McGee L, von Gottberg A, Song JH, Ko KS, Pichon B, Baker S, Parry CM, Lambertsen LM, Shahinas D, Pillai DR, Mitchell TJ, Dougan G, Tomasz A, Klugman KP, Parkhill J, Hanage WP, Bentley SDJournal: SciencePMID: 21273480 January 2011

Epidemiological studies of the naturally transformable bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae have previously been confounded by high rates of recombination. Sequencing…