Publications

Publications

1.  STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE

Lipsitch M, Whitney CG, Zell E, Kaijalainen T, Dagan R, Malley R.  Are Anticapsular Antibodies the Primary Mechanism of Protection against Invasive Disease?  PLoS Medicine 2005; 2:e15. FULL TEXT

Malley R, Trzcinski K, Srivastava A, Thompson CM, Anderson PW, Lipsitch M. CD4+ T cells mediate antibody-independent acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005; 102: 4848-53. FULL TEXT

Lu Y, Gross J, Bogaert D, Finn A, Bagrade A, Zhang Q, Kolls JK, Srivastava A, Lundgren A, Forte S, Thompson CM, Harney KF, Anderson PW, Lipsitch M*, Malley R* (* co-senior authors).  Interleukin 17-A mediates acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization.  PLoS Pathogens 2008 4(9): e1000159 FULL TEXT

Weinberger DM, Dagan R, Givon-Lavi N, Regev-Yochay G, Malley R, Lipsitch M.  Epidemiologic evidence for serotype-specific acquired immunity to pneumococcal carriage.  J Infect Dis 2008; 197(11):1511-1518. FULL TEXT 

Weinberger DM, Trzcinski K, Lu YJ, Bogaert D, Brandes A, Galagan J, Anderson PW, Malley R, Lipsitch M. Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide structure predicts serotype prevalence. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Jun; 5(6):e1000476.  FULL TEXT

Weinberger DM, Malley R, Lipsitch M.  Serotype replacement in disease after pneumococcal vaccination.  Lancet 2011 Apr 12. [Epub ahead of print] Pub Med PMID 21492929

2.  2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA AND 2003 SARS

Presanis A; Lipsitch M; De Angelis D; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Swine Flu Investigation Team,; Hagy A; Reed C; Riley S; Cooper B; Biedrzycki P; Finelli L. The severity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the United States, from April to July 2009: A Bayesian Analysis.  PLoS Med. 2009 Dec; 6(12).  FULL TEXT

Lipsitch M, Hayden FG, Cowling BJ, Leung GM.  How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count.  Lancet 2009; 374(9696):1209-11. PMID: 19679345.

Lipsitch M, Cohen T, Cooper B, Robins JM, Ma S, James L, Gopalakrishna G, Chew SK, Tan CC, Samore MH, Fisman D, Murray M.  Transmission dynamics and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome.  Science 2003; 300: 1966-1970. FULL TEXT

Lipsitch M, Finelli L, Heffernan RT, Leung GM, Redd SC; 2009 H1n1 Surveillance Group. Improving the evidence base for decision making during a pandemic: the example of 2009 influenza A/H1N1. Biosecur Bioterror. 2011 Jun;9(2):89-115.  FULL TEXT

3.  PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

Mills CE, Robins JM, Lipsitch M.  Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza.  Nature 2004; 432: 904-6.  FULL TEXT

Hatchett RJ, Mecher CE, Lipsitch M.  Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2007; 104:7582-7.  FULL TEXT

Mills CE, Robins JM, Bergstrom CT, Lipsitch M.  Pandemic influenza: Risk of multiple introductions and the need to prepare for them.  PLoS Medicine 2006; 3(6):e135. FULL TEXT

Lipsitch M, Cohen T, Murray M, Levin BR.  Antiviral resistance and the control of pandemic influenza.  Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine 2007; 4(1):e15.  FULL TEXT

Wallinga J, van Boven M, Lipsitch M. Optimizing infectious disease interventions during an emerging epidemic. Proc. National Acad. Sci 2010 Jan; 107(2) 923-928. FULL TEXT

 

4.  OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

Cooper B, Lipsitch M.  The analysis of hospital infection data using hidden Markov models.  Biostatistics 2004; 5:223-237.   FULL TEXT

Bergstrom C, Lo M, Lipsitch M.  Ecological theory suggests that antimicrobial cycling will not reduce antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2004; 101(36):13285-90. FULL TEXT

McCormick AW, Whitney CG, Farley MM, Lynfield R, Harrison LH, Bennett NM, Schaffner W, Reingold A, Hadler J,  Cieslak P, Samore MH, Lipsitch M.  Geographic Diversity and Temporal Trends of Antimicrobial Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States.  Nature Medicine 2003; 9(4):424-30.  FULL TEXT

Goldstein E, Paur K, Fraser C, Kenah E, Wallinga J, Lipsitch M. Reproductive numbers, epidemic spread and control in a community of households. Math Biosci. 2009 Sep;221(1):11-25. ABSTRACT

Lipsitch M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Cohen T. Negative Controls: A Tool for Detecting Confounding and Bias in Observational Studies. Epidemiology, 2010 May; 21(3):383-388. ABSTRACT

 

5. OTHER TOPICS

Lipsitch M. 2010. The Risk to Academic Freedom That Lurks in Corporate Consulting Contracts. The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 27. FULL TEXT