Publications

Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Author(s): Castillo-Ramírez S, Corander J, Marttinen P, Aldeljawi M, Hanage WP, Westh H, Boye K, Gulay Z, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Holden MT, Feil EJ|Journal: Genome Biol|PMID: 23270620| December 2012

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool for understanding both patterns of descent over time and space (phylogeography) and the…

Reply to Guy et al.: Support for a bottleneck in the 2011 Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany.

Author(s): Grad YH, Lipsitch M, Griggs AD, Haas BJ, Shea TP, McCowan C, Montmayeur A, FitzGerald M, Wortman JR, Krogfelt KA, Bingen E, Weill FX, Tietze E, Flieger A, Lander ES, Nusbaum C, Birren BW, Hung DT, Hanage WP|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 23479789| December 2012

Population subdivision and the detection of recombination in non-typable Haemophilus influenzae.

Author(s): Connor TR, Corander J, Hanage WP|Journal: Microbiology|PMID: 23038806| December 2012

The disparity in diversity between unencapsulated (non-typable; NT) and encapsulated, serotypable Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) has been recognized for some time.…

Vaccine allocation in a declining epidemic.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Wallinga J, Lipsitch M|Journal: J R Soc Interface|PMID: 22772378| November 2012

Sizeable quantities of 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1 (H1N1pdm) vaccine in the USA became available at the end of 2009 when…

Improving the estimation of influenza-related mortality over a seasonal baseline.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Viboud C, Charu V, Lipsitch M|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 22992574| November 2012

Existing methods for estimation of mortality attributable to influenza are limited by methodological and data uncertainty. We have used proxies…

Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Smith DL, Noor AM, Snow RW, Buckee CO|Journal: Science|PMID: 23066082| October 2012

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

Rethinking biosafety in research on potential pandemic pathogens.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Bloom BR|Journal: MBio|PMID: 23047752| October 2012

If accidentally released, mammalian-transmissible influenza A/H5N1 viruses could pose a greater threat to public health than possibly any other infectious…

Rates of acquisition and clearance of pneumococcal serotypes in the nasopharynges of children in Kilifi District, Kenya.

Author(s): Abdullahi O, Karani A, Tigoi CC, Mugo D, Kungu S, Wanjiru E, Jomo J, Musyimi R, Lipsitch M, Scott JA|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID: 22829650| October 2012

To understand and model the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines at the population level, we need to know the transmission…

The emergence and maintenance of sickle cell hotspots in the Mediterranean.

Author(s): Penman BS, Gupta S, Buckee CO|Journal: Infect Genet Evol|PMID: 22704979| October 2012

Genetic disorders of haemoglobin (haemoglobinopathies), including the thalassaemias and sickle cell anaemia, abound in historically malarious regions, due to the…

Factors related to increasing prevalence of resistance to ciprofloxacin and other antimicrobial drugs in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, United States.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Kirkcaldy RD, Reshef D, Berman S, Weinstock H, Sabeti P, Del Rio C, Hall G, Hook EW, Lipsitch M|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID: 22840274| August 2012

Using data from the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, we studied changes in ciprofloxacin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in the…