Papers

Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism.

Nature
Hanage WP
2014-08-21

Defunctioning polymorphism in the immunoglobulin G inhibitory receptor (FcγRIIB-T/T232) does not impact on kidney transplant or recipient survival.

Transplantation
Clatworthy MR, Matthews RJ, Doehler B, Willcocks LC, Opelz G, Smith KGC
2014-08-15

Incidence of influenza virus infections in children in Hong Kong in a 3-year randomized placebo-controlled vaccine study, 2009-2012.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Cowling BJ, Perera RA, Fang VJ, Chan KH, Wai W, So HC, Chu DK, Wong JY, Shiu EY, Ng S, Ip DK, Peiris JS, Leung GM
2014-08-15

Predicting indoor heat exposure risk during extreme heat events.

The Science of the total environment
Quinn A, Tamerius JD, Perzanowski M, Jacobson JS, Goldstein I, Acosta L, Shaman J
2014-08-15

Influenza-like illness, the time to seek healthcare, and influenza antiviral receipt during the 2010-2011 influenza season-United States.

The Journal of infectious diseases
Biggerstaff M, Jhung MA, Reed C, Fry AM, Balluz L, Finelli L
2014-08-15

Nowcasting the spread of chikungunya virus in the Americas.

PLoS One
Johansson MA, Powers AM, Pesik N, Cohen NJ, Staples JE
2014-08-11

A clinical prediction rule for diagnosing human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) in a hospital emergency department setting.

BMC medicine
Liao Q, Ip DK, Tsang TK, Cao B, Jiang H, Liu F, Zheng J, Peng Z, Wu P, Huai Y, Lau EH, Feng L, Leung GM, Yu H, Cowling BJ
2014-08-05

Comparison of gene expression microarray data with count-based RNA measurements informs microarray interpretation.

BMC Genomics
Richard AC, Lyons PA, Peters JE, Biasci D, Flint SM, Lee JC, McKinney EF, Siegel RM, Smith KG
2014-08-04

Surveillance of low pathogenic novel H7N9 avian influenza in commercial poultry barns: detection of outbreaks and estimation of virus introduction time.

BMC infectious diseases
Pinsent A, Blake IM, White MT, Riley S
2014-08-01

The whole iceberg: estimating the incidence of yellow fever virus infection from the number of severe cases.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Johansson MA, Vasconcelos PF, Staples JE
2014-08-01

Determinants of influenza transmission in South East Asia: insights from a household cohort study in Vietnam.

PLoS pathogens
Cauchemez S, Ferguson NM, Fox A, Mai le Q, Thanh le T, Thai PQ, Thoang DD, Duong TN, Minh Hoa le N, Tran Hien N, Horby P
2014-08-01

Adaptive evolution and environmental durability jointly structure phylodynamic patterns in avian influenza viruses.

PLoS biology
Roche B, Drake JM, Brown J, Stallknecht DE, Bedford T, Rohani P
2014-08-01

An economic model: value of antimicrobial-coated sutures to society, hospitals, and third-party payers in preventing abdominal surgical site infections.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Singh A, Bartsch SM, Muder RR, Lee BY
2014-08-01

Evolution of acuteness in pathogen metapopulations: conflicts between “classical” and invasion-persistence trade-offs.

Theoretical ecology
Shrestha S, Bjørnstad ON, King AA
2014-08-01

Effectiveness of screening hospital admissions to detect asymptomatic carriers of Clostridium difficile: a modeling evaluation.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Lanzas C, Dubberke ER
2014-08-01

Risk of dengue for tourists and teams during the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

PLoS neglected tropical diseases
van Panhuis WG, Hyun S, Blaney K, Marques ET Jr., Coelho GE, Siqueira JB Jr., Tibshirani R, da Silva JB Jr., Rosenfeld R
2014-07-31

Demonstrating the use of high-volume electronic medical claims data to monitor local and regional influenza activity in the US.

PLoS One
Viboud C, Charu V, Olson D, Ballesteros S, Gog J, Khan F, Grenfell B, Simonsen L
2014-07-29

Inter-model comparison of the landscape determinants of vector-borne disease: implications for epidemiological and entomological risk modeling.

PLoS One
Lorenz A, Dhingra R, Chang HH, Bisanzio D, Liu Y, Remais JV
2014-07-29

Trade-offs between and within scales: environmental persistence and within-host fitness of avian influenza viruses.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
Handel A, Lebarbenchon C, Stallknecht D, Rohani P
2014-07-22

Cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination in prior pneumonia patients in Israel.

Vaccine
Yamin D, Balicer RD, Galvani AP
2014-07-16

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