Publications

Bi Q, Wu Y, Mei S, Ye C, Zou X, Zhang Z, Liu X, Wei L, Truelove SA, Tong Zhang T, Gao W, Cheng C, Tang X, Wu X, Wu Y, Sun B, Huang S, Sun Y, Zhang J, Ma T, Lessler J, Feng T

Epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19 in 391 cases and 1286 of their close contacts in Shenzhen, China: a retrospective cohort study

Lancet Infect Dis, 2020; 20 (8): 911-919. 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30287-5

Lee EC, Chao DL, Lemaitre JC, Matrajt L, Pasetto D, Perez-Saez J, Finger F, Rinaldo A, Sugimoto JD, Halloran ME, Longini Jr IM, Ternier R, Vissieres K, Azman AS, Lessler J, Ivers LC

Achieving coordinated national immunity and cholera elimination in Haiti through vaccination: a modelling study

Lancet Glob Health, 2020; 8 (8): e1081-89. 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30310-7

Graboswki MK, Lessler J, Bazaale J, Nabukala D, Nakinga J, Nantume B, Ssekasanvu J, Raynolds SJ, Ssekubugu R, Nalugoda F, Kigozi G, Kagaayi J, Santelli J, Kennedy C, Wawer MJ, Serwadda D, Chang LW, Gray RH, the Rakai Health Sciences Program

Migration, hotspots, and dispersal of HIV infection in Rakai, Uganda

Nat Commun, 2020; 11(1): 976. 10.1038/s41467-020-14636-y

Zaman K, Dudman S, Stene-Johansen K, Qadri F, Yunus M, Sandbu S, Gurley ES, Overbo J, Julin CH, Dembinski JL, Nahar Q, Rahman A, Bhuiyan TR, Rahman M, Haque W, Khan J, Aziz A, Khanam M, Streatfield PK, Clemens JD

HEV study protocol : design of a cluster-randomised, blinded trial to assess the safety, immunogenicity and effectiveness of the hepatitis E vaccine HEV 239 (Hecolin) in women of childbearing age in rural Bangladesh

BMJ Open, 2020; 10(1): e033702. 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033702

Nahar N,, Asaduzzaman M, Mandal UK, Rimi NA, Gurley ES, Rahman M, Garcia F, Zimicki S, Sultana R,, Luby SP

Hunting Bats for Human Consumption in Bangladesh

Ecohealth, 2020; : . 10.1007/s10393-020-01468-x

Paul RC, Nazneen A, Banik KC, Sumon SA, Paul KK, Akram A, Uzzaman MS, Iqbal T, Tejada-Strop A, Kamili S, Luby SP, Gidding HF, Hayen A, Gurley ES

Hepatitis E as a cause of adult hospitalization in Bangladesh: Results from an acute jaundice surveillance study in six tertiary hospitals, 2014-2017

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2020; 14(1): e0007586. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007586

Capoferri AA, Lamers S, Grabowski M, Rose RR, Wawer M, Serwadda D, Gray R, Quinn TC, Kigozi G, Kagaayi J, Laeyendecker O

Recombination analysis of near full-length HIV-1 sequences and the identification of a potential new Circulating Recombinant Form from Rakai, Uganda

AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses, 2020; : . 10.1089/AID.2019.0150

Zhang Y, Wymant C, Laeyendecker O, Grabowski MK, Hall M, Hudelson S, Piwowar-Manning E, McCauley M, Gamble T, Hosseinipour MC, Kumarasamy N, Hakim JG, Kumwenda J, Mills LA, Santos BR, Grinsztejn B, Pilotto JH, Chariyalertsak S, Makhema J, Chen YQ, Cohen MS, Fraser C, Eshleman SH.

Evaluation of phylogenetic methods for inferring the direction of HIV transmission: HPTN 052

Clin Infect Dis, 2020; : . 10.1093/cid/ciz1247

Wallace M, Sharfstein J, Lessler J

Performance and Priorities: A Cross-sectional Study of Local Health Department Approaches to Essential Public Health Services

Public Health Rep, 2020; 135(1): 97-106. 10.1177/0033354919890862

Ratmann O, Kagaayi J, Hall M, Golubchick T, Kigozi G, Xi X, Wymant C, Nakigozi G, Abeler-Dörner L, Bonsall D, Gall A, Hoppe A, Kellam P, Bazaale J, Kalibbala S, Laeyendecker O, Lessler J, Nalugoda F, Chang LW, de Oliveira T, Pillay D, Quinn TC, Reynolds SJ, Spencer SEF, Ssekubugu R, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ, Gray RH, Fraser C, Grabowski MK; Rakai Health Sciences Program and the Pangea HIV Consortium.

Quantifying HIV transmission flow between high-prevalence hotspots and surrounding communities: a population-based study in Rakai, Uganda.

Lancet HIV, 2020; : . 10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30378-9

Isanaka S, Grantz KH, Berthé F, Schaefe M, Adehossi E, Grais RF

Routine amoxicillin in the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: extended follow-up from a randomized trial in Niger

JAMA Pediatrics, 2019; 174(3): 295-297. 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5189

Grantz KH, Claudot P, Kambala M, Kouyaté M, Soumah A, Boum Y, Juan-Giner A, Jemmy JP, Cummings DAT, Grais RF

Factors influencing participation in an Ebola vaccine trial among healthcare and front-line workers in Guinea

Vaccine, 2019; 37(48): 7165-7170. 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.094

Hegde ST, Benoit SR, Arvelo W, Lindblade K, López B, McCracken JP, Bernart C, Roldan A, Bryan JP

Burden of laboratory-confirmed shigellosis infections in Guatemala 2007-2012: results from a population-based surveillance system

BMC Public Health, 2019; 19(Suppl 3): 474. 10.1186/s12889-019-6780-7

Haw DJ, Cummings DAT, Lessler J, Salje H, Read JM, Riley S

Differential mobility and local varation in attack rate

PLoS Comput Biol, 2019; 15(1): e1006600. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006600

Goin DE, Pearson RM, Craske MG, Stein A, Pettifor A,, Lippman SA, Kahn K, Neilands TB, Hamilton EL, Selin A, MacPhail C,, Wagner RG, Gomez-Olive FX, Twine R, Hughes JP, Agyei Y, Laeyendecker O, Tollman S, Ahern J

Depression and incident HIV in adolescent girls and young women in HPTN 068: Targets for prevention and mediating factors

Am J Epidemiol, 2019; : . 10.1093/aje/kwz238

Radonovich LJ Jr, Simberkoff MS, Bessesen MT, Brown AC, Cummings DAT, Gaydos CA, Los JG, Krosche AE, Gibert CL, Gorse GJ, Nyquist AC, Reich NG, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Price CS, Perl TM; ResPECT investigators((including Lessler J).

N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA, 2019; 322(9): 824-833. 10.1001/jama.2019.11645

Johansson MA, Apfeldorf KM, Dobson S, Devita J, Buczak AL, Baugher B, Moniz LJ, Bagley T, Babin SM, Guven E, Yamana TK, Shaman J, Moschou T, Lothian N, Lane A, Osborne G, Jiang G, Brooks LC, Farrow DC, Hyun S, Tibshirani RJ, Rosenfeld R, Lessler J, Reich NG, Cummings DAT, Lauer SA, Moore SM, Clapham HE, Lowe R, Bailey TC, García-Díez M, Carvalho MS, Rodó X, Sardar T, Paul R, Ray EL, Sakrejda K, Brown AC, Meng X, Osoba O, Vardavas R, Manheim D, Moore M, Rao DM, Porco TC, Ackley S, Liu F, Worden L, Convertino M, Liu Y, Reddy A, Ortiz E, Rivero J, Brito H, Juarrero A, Johnson LR, Gramacy RB, Cohen JM, Mordecai EA, Murdock CC, Rohr JR, Ryan SJ,, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Weikel DP, Jutla A, Khan R, Poultney M, Colwell RR, Rivera-García B, , Bell JE, Biggerstaff M, Swerdlow D, Mier-Y-Teran-Romero L, Forshey BM, Trtanj J, Asher J, Clay M, Margolis HS, Hebbeler AM, George D, Chretien JP

An open challenge to advance probabilistic forecasting for dengue epidemics

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019; 116(48): 24268-2427. 10.1073/pnas.1909865116

Bi Q, Goodman KE, Kaminsky J, Lessler J

What is Machine Learning? A Primer for the Epidemiologist

Am J Epidemiol, 2019; : . 10.1093/aje/kwz189

Giles JR, Salje H, Lessler J

The IDSpatialStats R Package: Quantifying Spatial Dependence of Infectious Disease Spread

The R Journal, 2019; 11(2): 308-327.

Truelove SA, Keegan LT, Moss WJ, Chaisson LH, Macher E, Azman AS, Lessler J

Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Diphtheria:A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis

Clin Infect Dis, 2019; 71(1): 89-97. 10.1093/cid/ciz808

Lee EC, Azman AS, Kaminsky J, Moore SM, McKay HS, Lessler J

The projected impact of geographic targeting of oral cholera vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: A modeling study

PLoS Med, 2019; 16(12): e1003003. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003003

Hackman J, Falade-Nwulia O, Patel EU, Mehta SH, Kirk GD, Astemborski J, Ray SC, Thomas DL, Laeyendecker O

Correlates of hepatitis C viral clustering among people who inject drugs in Baltimore

Infect Genet Evol, 2019; 77: 104078. 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.104078

Fogel JM, Sivay MV, Cummings V, Wilson EA, Hart S, Gamble T, Laeyendecker O, Fernandez RE, Del Rio C, Batey DS, Mayer KH, Farley JE, McKinstry L, Hughes JP, Remien RH, Beyrer C, Eshleman SH

HIV drug resistance in a cohort of HIV-infected MSM in the United States

AIDS, 2019; 34(1): 91-101. 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002394

Hansoti B, Mwinnyaa G, Hahn E, Rao A, Black J, Chen V, Clark K, Clarke W, Eisenberg AL, Fernandez R, Iruedo J, Laeyendecker O, Maharaj R, Mda P, Miller J, Mvandaba N, Nyanisa Y, Reynolds SJ, Redd AD, Ryan S, Stead DF, Wallis LA, Quinn TC

Targeting the HIV Epidemic in South Africa: The Need for Testing and Linkage to Care in Emergency Departments

EClinicalMedicine, 2019; 15: 14-22. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.08.007

Hansoti B, Stead D, Eisenberg A, Mvandaba N, Mwinnyaa G, Patel EU, Parrish A, Reynolds SJ, Redd AD, Fernandez R, Rothman RE, Laeyendecker O, Quinn TC

A Window Into the HIV Epidemic from a South African Emergency Department

AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses, 2019; 35(2): 139-144. 10.1089/AID.2018.0127

Khoshnoodi M, Truelove S, Polydefkis M

Effect of diabetes type on long-term outcome of epidermal axon regeneration

Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 2019; 6(10): 2088-2096. 10.1002/acn3.50904

Li X, Mukandavire C, Cucunubá ZM, Abbas K,Clapham HE, Jit M, Johnson HL, Papadopoulos T, Vynnycky E, Brisson M, Carter ED, Clark A, de Villiers MJ, Eilertson K, Ferrari MJ, Gamkrelidze I, Gaythorpe K, Grassly NC, Hallett TB, Jackson ML, Jean K, Karachaliou A, Klepac P, Justin Lessler, Li X, Moore SM, Nayagam S, Nguyen DM, Razavi H, Razavi-Shearer D, Resch S, Sanderson C, Sweet S, Sy S, Tam Y, Tanvir H, Tran QM, Trotter CL, Truelove S, van Zandvoort K, Verguet S, Walker N, Winter A, Ferguson NM, Garske T(Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium)

Estimating the health impact of vaccination against 10 pathogens in 98 low and middle income countries from 2000 to 2030

medRxiv, 2019; : . 10.1101/19004358

Mabvakure BM, Rott R, Dobrowsky L, Van Heusden P, Morris L, Scheepers C, Moore PL

Advancing HIV Vaccine Research With Low-Cost High-Performance Computing Infrastructure: An Alternative Approach for Resource-Limited Settings

Bioinform Biol Insights, 2019; 13: . 10.1177/1177932219882347

Liebig J ,Jansen C, Paini D,Gardner L, Jurdak R

A global model for predicting the arrival of imported dengue infections

PLoS One, 2019; 14(12): e0225193. 10.1371/journal.pone.0225193

Shrestha S, Cherng S, Hill AN, Reynolds S, Flood J, Barry PM, Readhead A, Oxtoby M, Lauzardo M, Privett T, Marks SM, Dowdy DW

Impact and Effectiveness of State-Level Tuberculosis Interventions in California, Florida, New York, and Texas: A Model-Based Analysis

Am J Epidemiol, 2019; 188(9): 1733-1741. 10.1093/aje/kwz147

Sohn H, Kasaie P, Kendall E, Gomez GB, Vassall A, Pai M, Dowdy D

Informing decision-making for universal access to quality tuberculosis diagnosis in India: an economic-epidemiological model

BMC Med, 2019; 17(1): 155. 10.1186/s12916-019-1384-8

Kendall EA, Malhotra S, Cook-Scalise S, Denkinger CM, Dowdy DW

Estimating the impact of a novel drug regimen for treatment of tuberculosis: a modeling analysis of projected patient outcomes and epidemiological considerations

BMC Infect Dis, 2019; 19(1): 794. 10.1186/s12879-019-4429-x

Campbell JR, Dowdy D, Schwartzman K

Treatment of latent infection to achieve tuberculosis elimination in low-incidence countries

PLoS Med, 2019; 16(6): e1002824. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002824

Stracker N, Hanrahan C, Mmolawa L, Nonyane B, Tampi R, Tucker A, West N, Lebina L, Martinson N, Dowdy D

Risk factors for catastrophic costs associated with tuberculosis in rural South Africa

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2019; 23(6): 756-763. 10.5588/ijtld.18.0519

Kendall EA, Kamoga C, Kitonsa PJ, Nalutaaya A, Salvatore PP, Robsky K, Nakasolya O, Mukiibi J, Isooba D, Cattamanchi A, Kato-Maeda M, Katamba A, Dowdy DW

Empiric treatment of pulmonary TB in the Xpert era: Correspondence of sputum culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and clinical diagnoses

PLoS One, 2019; 14(7): e0220251. 10.1371/journal.pone.0220251

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