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MDR-TB treatment as prevention: The projected population-level impact of expanded treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
BACKGROUND: In 2013, approximately 480,000 people developed active multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), while only 97,000 started …
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Safety of a killed oral cholera vaccine (Shanchol) in pregnant women in Malawi: an observational cohort study
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy increases the risk of harmful effects from cholera for both mothers and their fetuses. A killed oral cholera …
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Adapting to the global shortage of cholera vaccines: targeted single dose cholera vaccine in response to an outbreak in South Sudan
Shortages of vaccines for epidemic diseases, such as cholera, meningitis, and yellow fever, have become common over the past decade, …
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Cholera cases cluster in time and space in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for targeted preventive interventions
BACKGROUND: : Cholera remains a serious public health threat in Asia, Africa and in parts of the Americas. Three World health …
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Cholera Rapid Test with Enrichment Step Has Diagnostic Performance Equivalent to Culture
Cholera rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) could play a central role in outbreak detection and surveillance in low-resource settings, but …
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Contact, travel, and transmission: The impact of winter holidays on influenza dynamics in the United States
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Effectiveness of one dose of oral cholera vaccine in response to an outbreak: a case-cohort study
BACKGROUND: Oral cholera vaccines represent a new effective tool to fight cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2-4 weeks …
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How social structures, space, and behaviors shape the spread of infectious diseases using chikungunya as a case study
Whether an individual becomes infected in an infectious disease outbreak depends on many interconnected risk factors, which may relate …
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Mind the Scales: Harnessing Spatial Big Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Inference
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Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models
BACKGROUND: The post-2015 End TB Strategy sets global targets of reducing tuberculosis incidence by 50% and mortality by 75% by 2025. …
Nicolas a Menzies, Gabriela B Gomez, Fiammetta Bozzani, Susmita Chatterjee, Nicola Foster, Ines Garcia Baena, Yoko v Laurence, Sun Qiang, Andrew Siroka, Sedona Sweeney, Stéphane Verguet, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Andrew S. Azman, Eran Bendavid, Stewart T Chang, Ted Cohen, Justin T Denholm, David W Dowdy, Philip a Eckhoff, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert, Andreas Handel, Grace H Huynh, Marek Lalli, Hsien-Ho Lin, Sandip Mandal, Emma S McBryde, Surabhi Pandey, Joshua a Salomon, Sze-Chuan Suen, Tom Sumner, James M Trauer, Bradley G Wagner, Christopher C Whalen, Chieh-Yin Wu, Delia Boccia, Vineet K Chadha, Salome Charalambous, Daniel P Chin, Gavin Churchyard, Colleen Daniels, Puneet Dewan, Lucica Ditiu, Jeffrey W Eaton, Alison D Grant, Piotr Hippner, Mehran Hosseini, David Mametja, Carel Pretorius, Yogan Pillay, Kiran Rade, Suvanand Sahu, Lixia Wang, Rein M G J Houben, Michael E Kimerling, Richard G White, Anna Vassall
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