Tyler Sharp, PhD

Dengue; Epidemiology; Leptospirosis; Mosquito Control; Puerto Rico

Emerging Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases

• Differences in Prevalence of Symptomatic Zika Virus Infection, by Age and Sex-Puerto Rico, 2016.Lozier MJ, Burke RM, Lopez J, Acevedo V, Amador M, Read JS, Jara A, Waterman SH, Barrera R, Muñoz-Jordan J, Rivera-Garcia B, Sharp TM. Differences in Prevalence of Symptomatic Zika Virus Infection, by Age and Sex-Puerto Rico, 2016. The Journal Of Infectious Diseases 2018, 217: 1678-1689. PMID: 29216376, DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix630.
• Acute Zika Virus Infection as a Risk Factor for Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Puerto Rico.Dirlikov E, Medina NA, Major CG, Munoz-Jordan JL, Luciano CA, Rivera-Garcia B, Sharp TM. Acute Zika Virus Infection as a Risk Factor for Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Puerto Rico. JAMA 2017, 318: 1498-1500. PMID: 29049645, PMCID: PMC5817969, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.11483.
• Persistence of Zika Virus in Body Fluids - Final Report.Paz-Bailey G, Rosenberg ES, Doyle K, Munoz-Jordan J, Santiago GA, Klein L, Perez-Padilla J, Medina FA, Waterman SH, Gubern CG, Alvarado LI, Sharp TM. Persistence of Zika Virus in Body Fluids - Final Report. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2018, 379: 1234-1243. PMID: 28195756, PMCID: PMC5831142, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1613108.
• Use of Household Cluster Investigations to Identify Factors Associated with Chikungunya Virus Infection and Frequency of Case Reporting in Puerto Rico.Bloch D, Roth NM, Caraballo EV, Muñoz-Jordan J, Hunsperger E, Rivera A, Pérez-Padilla J, Rivera Garcia B, Sharp TM. Use of Household Cluster Investigations to Identify Factors Associated with Chikungunya Virus Infection and Frequency of Case Reporting in Puerto Rico. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2016, 10: e0005075. PMID: 27764085, PMCID: PMC5072658, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005075.
• Early Indicators of Fatal Leptospirosis during the 2010 Epidemic in Puerto Rico.Sharp TM, Rivera García B, Pérez-Padilla J, Galloway RL, Guerra M, Ryff KR, Haberling D, Ramakrishnan S, Shadomy S, Blau D, Tomashek KM, Bower WA. Early Indicators of Fatal Leptospirosis during the 2010 Epidemic in Puerto Rico. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2016, 10: e0004482. PMID: 26914210, PMCID: PMC4767218, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004482.
• Virus-specific differences in rates of disease during the 2010 Dengue epidemic in Puerto Rico.Sharp TM, Hunsperger E, Santiago GA, Muñoz-Jordan JL, Santiago LM, Rivera A, Rodríguez-Acosta RL, Gonzalez Feliciano L, Margolis HS, Tomashek KM. Virus-specific differences in rates of disease during the 2010 Dengue epidemic in Puerto Rico. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2013, 7: e2159. PMID: 23593526, PMCID: PMC3617145, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002159.