2023
Predictive power of wastewater for nowcasting infectious disease transmission: A retrospective case study of five sewershed areas in Louisville, Kentucky
Klaassen F, Holm R, Smith T, Cohen T, Bhatnagar A, Menzies N. Predictive power of wastewater for nowcasting infectious disease transmission: A retrospective case study of five sewershed areas in Louisville, Kentucky. Environmental Research 2023, 240: 117395. PMID: 37838198, PMCID: PMC10863376, DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117395.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDeath dataSurveillance dataSARS-CoV-2 casesClinical surveillance dataLow-resource settingsRetrospective case studyInfectious disease transmissionTrue infectionEpidemiologic dataSerosurvey dataDeath reportsTraditional surveillance dataDisease trendsInfectious diseasesWastewater dataDisease transmissionPredictive performance
2018
Risk ratios for contagious outcomes
Morozova O, Cohen T, Crawford FW. Risk ratios for contagious outcomes. Journal Of The Royal Society Interface 2018, 15: 20170696. PMID: 29343627, PMCID: PMC5805970, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0696.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2006
Exogenous re-infection and the dynamics of tuberculosis epidemics: local effects in a network model of transmission
Cohen T, Colijn C, Finklea B, Murray M. Exogenous re-infection and the dynamics of tuberculosis epidemics: local effects in a network model of transmission. Journal Of The Royal Society Interface 2006, 4: 523-531. PMID: 17251134, PMCID: PMC2373405, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0193.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTB control strategiesPublic health policy makersType of TBMolecular epidemiologic toolsHealth policy makersTB diseasePrimary diseasePrimary progressionTB incidenceRecent infectionTB transmissionTuberculosis diseaseInfectious disease transmissionTuberculosis epidemicRecent transmissionEpidemiological dataForce of infectionInfectious casesLatent infectionEpidemiologic toolInfectionMycobacterium tuberculosisSpecific populationsDiseaseEpidemic trajectories