2022
Quantifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission Dynamics Across Global Settings: A Systematic Analysis
Smith J, Cohen T, Dowdy D, Shrestha S, Gandhi NR, Hill AN. Quantifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission Dynamics Across Global Settings: A Systematic Analysis. American Journal Of Epidemiology 2022, 192: 133-145. PMID: 36227246, PMCID: PMC10144641, DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac181.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTB transmissionOngoing TB transmissionMinority of casesTuberculosis transmission dynamicsTB controlTuberculosis transmissionSecondary casesSources of heterogeneityInclusion criteriaSurveillance studyTransmission clustersInitial searchTransmission dynamicsWhole-genome sequencingPopulation levelSetting
2021
Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a population-based study
Kishore N, Taylor AR, Jacob PE, Vembar N, Cohen T, Buckee CO, Menzies NA. Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a population-based study. The Lancet Digital Health 2021, 4: e27-e36. PMID: 34740555, PMCID: PMC8563007, DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00214-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 transmissionPopulation-based studyLaboratory-confirmed casesSARS-CoV-2 pandemicSARS-CoV-2Non-pharmaceutical interventionsCOVID-19 transmissionCOVID-19 casesEpidemiological dataReproduction numberEffective reproduction numberHealth StatisticsEquity of accessEpidemic trajectoriesCOVID-19Public healthTransmission indicatorsPopulation levelContact patterns