Publications

Challenges of vaccine effectiveness and waning studies.

Author(s): Lipsitch M|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 30204853| September 2018

Pan-serotype Reduction in Progression of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Otitis Media After Rollout of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines.

Author(s): Lewnard JA, Givon-Lavi N, Weinberger DM, Lipsitch M, Dagan R|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 29020218| November 2017

Reductions in otitis media (OM) burden following rollout of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) have exceeded predictions of vaccine impact. In…

Time From Infection to Disease and Infectiousness for Ebola Virus Disease, a Systematic Review.

Author(s): Velásquez GE, Aibana O, Ling EJ, Diakite I, Mooring EQ, Murray MB|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 26129757| October 2015

We systematically reviewed the literature to estimate the incubation and latent periods of Ebola virus disease. We found limited epidemiological…

Whole-genome sequencing for national surveillance of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157.

Author(s): Dallman TJ, Byrne L, Ashton PM, Cowley LA, Perry NT, Adak G, Petrovska L, Ellis RJ, Elson R, Underwood A, Green J, Hanage WP, Jenkins C, Grant K, Wain J|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 25888672| August 2015

National surveillance of gastrointestinal pathogens, such as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157), is key to rapidly identifying linked…

Oseltamivir effect on antibiotic-treated lower respiratory tract complications in virologically positive randomized trial participants.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Hernán MA|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 23883518| November 2013

Oseltamivir and risk of lower respiratory tract complications in patients with flu symptoms: a meta-analysis of eleven randomized clinical trials.

Author(s): Hernán MA, Lipsitch M|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 21677258| August 2011

An independent reanalysis of 11 randomized clinical trials shows that oseltamivir treatment reduces the risk of lower respiratory tract complications…

Association of serotype with risk of death due to pneumococcal pneumonia: a meta-analysis.

Author(s): Weinberger DM, Harboe ZB, Sanders EA, Ndiritu M, Klugman KP, Rückinger S, Dagan R, Adegbola R, Cutts F, Johnson HL, O'Brien KL, Scott JA, Lipsitch M|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 20715907| September 2010

The 92 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae differ greatly in nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence, invasiveness, and disease incidence. There has been…