2022
Model-based Analysis of Tuberculosis Genotype Clusters in the United States Reveals High Degree of Heterogeneity in Transmission and State-level Differences Across California, Florida, New York, and Texas
Shrestha S, Winglee K, Hill A, Shaw T, Smith J, Kammerer JS, Silk BJ, Marks S, Dowdy D. Model-based Analysis of Tuberculosis Genotype Clusters in the United States Reveals High Degree of Heterogeneity in Transmission and State-level Differences Across California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 75: 1433-1441. PMID: 35143641, PMCID: PMC9412192, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTB casesTB transmissionKey public health priorityPublic health priorityMechanistic transmission modelsTB incidenceTuberculosis transmissionSecondary casesHealth priorityInfectious casesTransmission clustersDisease controlMean numberR0 estimatesUnited StatesWhole-genome sequencingSame countyGenotype clustersState-level differencesSecondary transmissionCasesIncidence
2021
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission
Smith JP, Gandhi NR, Silk BJ, Cohen T, Lopman B, Raz K, Winglee K, Kammerer S, Benkeser D, Kramer MR, Hill AN. A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission. Epidemiology 2021, 33: 217-227. PMID: 34907974, PMCID: PMC8886690, DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001452.Peer-Reviewed Original Research