Publications

Can antibiotic resistance be reduced by vaccinating against respiratory disease?

Author(s): Atkins KE, Lipsitch M|Journal: Lancet Respir Med|PMID: 30076121| November 2018

Nonannual seasonality of influenza-like illness in a tropical urban setting.

Author(s): Lam HM, Wesolowski A, Hung NT, Nguyen TD, Nhat NTD, Todd S, Vinh DN, Vy NHT, Thao TTN, Thanh NTL, Tin PT, Minh NNQ, Bryant JE, Buckee CO, Ngoc TV, Chau NVV, Thwaites GE, Farrar J, Tam DTH, Vinh H, Boni MF|Journal: Influenza Other Respir Viruses|PMID: 30044029| November 2018

In temperate and subtropical climates, respiratory diseases exhibit seasonal peaks in winter. In the tropics, with no winter, peak timings…

From bacterial genomics to clinical epidemiology: an interview with Bill Hanage.

Author(s): Hanage WP|Journal: BMC Biol|PMID: 30382834| November 2018

Bill Hanage is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, where he studies fundamental and applied…

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Antimicrobial Drug Use, United States, 2014-2015.

Author(s): Olesen SW, Grad YH|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID: 30334733| November 2018

Using a US nationwide survey, we measured disparities in antimicrobial drug acquisition by race/ethnicity for 2014-2015. White persons reported twice…

Mapping malaria by combining parasite genomic and epidemiologic data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Taylor AR, Chang HH, Verity R, Tessema S, Bailey JA, Alex Perkins T, Neafsey DE, Greenhouse B, Buckee CO|Journal: BMC Med|PMID: 30333020| October 2018

Recent global progress in scaling up malaria control interventions has revived the goal of complete elimination in many countries. Decreasing…

Analyzing Vaccine Trials in Epidemics with Mild and Asymptomatic Infection.

Author(s): Kahn R, Hitchings M, Wang R, Bellan S, Lipsitch M|Journal: Am J Epidemiol|PMID: 30329134| October 2018

Vaccine efficacy against susceptibility to infection (VES), regardless of symptoms, is an important endpoint of vaccine trials for pathogens with…

Within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity and its utility for inferences of transmission.

Author(s): Martin MA, Lee RS, Cowley LA, Gardy JL, Hanage WP|Journal: Microb Genom|PMID: 30303479| October 2018

Whole genome sequencing in conjunction with traditional epidemiology has been used to reconstruct transmission networks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during outbreaks.…

Use of an individual-based model of pneumococcal carriage for planning a randomized trial of a whole-cell vaccine.

Author(s): Cai FY, Fussell T, Cobey S, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 30273332| October 2018

For encapsulated bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, asymptomatic carriage is more common and longer in duration than disease, and hence…

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data.

Author(s): Peak CM, Wesolowski A, Zu Erbach-Schoenberg E, Tatem AJ, Wetter E, Lu X, Power D, Weidman-Grunewald E, Ramos S, Moritz S, Buckee CO, Bengtsson L|Journal: Int J Epidemiol|PMID: 29947788| October 2018

Travel restrictions were implemented on an unprecedented scale in 2015 in Sierra Leone to contain and eliminate Ebola virus disease.…

Estimating sources and sinks of malaria parasites in Madagascar.

Author(s): Ihantamalala FA, Herbreteau V, Rakotoarimanana FMJ, Rakotondramanga JM, Cauchemez S, Rahoilijaona B, Pennober G, Buckee CO, Rogier C, Metcalf CJE, Wesolowski A|Journal: Nat Commun|PMID: 30254280| September 2018

In areas where malaria epidemiology is spatially and temporally heterogeneous, human-mediated parasite importation can result in non-locally acquired clinical cases…