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
2021
Reporting practices for genomic epidemiology of tuberculosis: a systematic review of the literature using STROME-ID guidelines as a benchmark
Cheng B, Behr MA, Howden BP, Cohen T, Lee RS. Reporting practices for genomic epidemiology of tuberculosis: a systematic review of the literature using STROME-ID guidelines as a benchmark. The Lancet Microbe 2021, 2: e115-e129. PMID: 33842904, PMCID: PMC8034592, DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(20)30201-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBenchmarkingCommunicable DiseasesGenomicsHumansMolecular EpidemiologyReproducibility of ResultsTuberculosisConceptsGenomic epidemiology studiesStudy qualityProportion of criteriaEpidemiology studiesSystematic reviewInfectious Diseases guidelinesMean proportionNon-human studiesQuasi-Poisson regressionDisease guidelinesEmbase ClassicInfectious disease epidemiologyConference abstractsPrimary searchStudy characteristicsTuberculosisMolecular epidemiologyInitial searchSenior authorSearch termsTyping of strainsSample sizeEpidemiologyGenomic epidemiologyFull text
2014
Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement
Field N, Cohen T, Struelens MJ, Palm D, Cookson B, Glynn JR, Gallo V, Ramsay M, Sonnenberg P, MacCannell D, Charlett A, Egger M, Green J, Vineis P, Abubakar I. Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2014, 14: 341-352. PMID: 24631223, DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(13)70324-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChecklistCommunicable DiseasesEpidemiologic Research DesignHumansMolecular EpidemiologyResearch DesignConceptsEpidemiological studiesInfectious diseasesMolecular epidemiologyControl of infectionMultiple-strain infectionsMolecular epidemiological studiesHealth policy decisionsObservational studySTROBE checklistEpidemiological dataEvidence reviewCommunicable diseasesInfectious disease researchSTROBE statementDiseaseInfectious disease data
2009
What is the mechanism for persistent coexistence of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae?
Colijn C, Cohen T, Fraser C, Hanage W, Goldstein E, Givon-Lavi N, Dagan R, Lipsitch M. What is the mechanism for persistent coexistence of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae? Journal Of The Royal Society Interface 2009, 7: 905-919. PMID: 19940002, PMCID: PMC2871802, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0400.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBacteriaCommunicable DiseasesDisease SusceptibilityHumansInfectionsPopulation DynamicsPrevalenceStreptococcus pneumoniaeConceptsDrug-resistant strainsStreptococcus pneumoniaeInfectious diseasesDrug-susceptible strainsHigher reproduction numberCent prevalenceSubstantial prevalencePersistent coexistenceDrug resistanceMultiple infectionsAntimicrobial useResistant strainsBacterial spreadAntimicrobial resistancePrevalenceDiseasePneumoniaeOutcomesReproduction numberTreatmentHost interactionsPathogensCoinfection
2008
Latent Coinfection and the Maintenance of Strain Diversity
Colijn C, Cohen T, Murray M. Latent Coinfection and the Maintenance of Strain Diversity. Bulletin Of Mathematical Biology 2008, 71: 247. PMID: 19082663, PMCID: PMC2652765, DOI: 10.1007/s11538-008-9361-y.Peer-Reviewed Original Research