Author(s): MacFadden DR, McGeer A, Athey T, Perusini S, Olsha R, Li A, Eshaghi A, Gubbay JB, Hanage WP|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID:29460729| March 2018
Adequacy of the current clinical definition of institutional influenza outbreaks is unclear. We performed a retrospective genome sequencing and epidemiologic…
Author(s): Arnold BJ, Gutmann MU, Grad YH, Sheppard SK, Corander J, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP|Journal: Genetics|PMID:29330348| March 2018
The impact of epistasis on the evolution of multi-locus traits depends on recombination. While sexually reproducing eukaryotes recombine so frequently…
Author(s): Peak CM, Reilly AL, Azman AS, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Negl Trop Dis|PMID:29489815| February 2018
Oral cholera vaccination is an approach to preventing outbreaks in at-risk settings and controlling cholera in endemic settings. However, vaccine-derived…
Author(s): Goldstein E, Nguyen HH, Liu P, Viboud C, Steiner CA, Worby CJ, Lipsitch M|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID:29112722| January 2018
While circulation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) results in high rates of hospitalization, particularly among young children and elderly individuals,…
Author(s): Lipsitch M|Journal: Methods Mol Biol|PMID:30151594| January 2018
This chapter makes the case against performing exceptionally dangerous gain-of-function experiments that are designed to create potentially pandemic and novel…
