Publications – Page 49 – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Incubation periods impact the spatial predictability of cholera and Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone.

Author(s): Kahn R, Peak CM, Fernández-Gracia J, Hill A, Jambai A, Ganda L, Castro MC, Buckee COJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 32054785 March 2020

Forecasting the spatiotemporal spread of infectious diseases during an outbreak is an important component of epidemic response. However, it remains…

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage and Risk for Tuberculosis in Child Household Contacts, Peru.

Author(s): Huang CC, Chu AL, Becerra MC, Galea JT, Calderon R, Contreras C, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Lecca L, Murray MBJournal: Emerg Infect DisPMID: 32091363 March 2020

Few studies have prospectively compared the relative transmissibility and propensity to cause disease of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains with other…

Noninvasive Ventilation Is Interrupted Frequently and Mostly Used at Night in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Author(s): Schlosser KR, Fiore GA, Smallwood CD, Griffin JF, Geva A, Santillana M, Arnold JHJournal: Respir CarePMID: 31551282 March 2020

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is commonly used to support children with respiratory failure, but detailed patterns of real-world use are lacking.…

Predicting evolution using frequency-dependent selection in bacterial populations

Author(s): Taj Azarian, Pamela P Martinez, Brian J Arnold, Lindsay R Grant, Jukka Corander, Christophe Fraser, Nicholas J. Croucher, Laura L Hammitt, Raymond Reid, Mathuram Santosham, Robert C Weatherholtz, Stephen D Bentley, Katherine L O’Brien, Marc Lipsitch, William P HanageJournal: bioRxiv February 2020

Predicting how pathogen populations will change over time is challenging. Such has been the case with Streptococcus pneumoniae, an important…

The relation between prescribing of different antibiotics and rates of mortality with sepsis in US adults.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Lipsitch MJournal: BMC Infect DisPMID: 32087679 February 2020

Antibiotic use contributes to the rates of sepsis and the associated mortality, particularly through lack of clearance of resistant infections…

The role of absolute humidity on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak

Author(s): Wei Luo, Maimuna S Majumder, Dianbo Liu, Canelle Poirier, Kenneth D Mandl, Marc Lipsitch, Mauricio SantillanaJournal: medRxiv February 2020

A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 and has caused over 40,000 cases…

Longitudinal analysis of naturally acquired antibodies to PfEMP1 CIDR domain variants and their association with malaria protection

Author(s): Nyamekye Obeng-Adjei, Daniel B Larremore, Louise Turner, Aissata Ongoiba, Shanping Li, Safiatou Doumbo, Takele B. Yazew, Kassoum Kayentao, Louis H. Miller, Boubacar Traore, Susan K. Pierce, Caroline O Buckee, Thomas Lavstsen, Peter D. Crompton, Tuan M. TranJournal: bioRxiv February 2020

Malaria pathogenicity is determined, in part, by the adherence of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes to the microvasculature mediated via specific…

CD1b Tetramers Broadly Detect T Cells That Correlate With Mycobacterial Exposure but Not Tuberculosis Disease State.

Author(s): Lopez K, Iwany SK, Suliman S, Reijneveld JF, Ocampo TA, Jimenez J, Calderon R, Lecca L, Murray MB, Moody DB, Van Rhijn IJournal: Front ImmunolPMID: 32117314 February 2020

The non-polymorphic nature of CD1 proteins creates a situation in which T cells with invariant T cell receptors (TCRs), like…

Identification of hidden population structure in time-scaled phylogenies.

Author(s): Volz EM, Wiuf C, Grad YH, Frost SDW, Dennis AM, Didelot XJournal: Syst BiolPMID: 32049340 February 2020

Population structure influences genealogical patterns, however data pertaining to how populations are structured are often unavailable or not directly observable.…

Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States.

Author(s): Wohl S, Metsky HC, Schaffner SF, Piantadosi A, Burns M, Lewnard JA, Chak B, Krasilnikova LA, Siddle KJ, Matranga CB, Bankamp B, Hennigan S, Sabina B, Byrne EH, McNall RJ, Shah RR, Qu J, Park DJ, Gharib S, Fitzgerald S, Barreira P, Fleming S, Lett S, Rota PA, Madoff LC, Yozwiak NL, MacInnis BL, Smole S, Grad YH, Sabeti PCJournal: PLoS BiolPMID: 32045407 February 2020

Unusually large outbreaks of mumps across the United States in 2016 and 2017 raised questions about the extent of mumps…