Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses

NHL Leung - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Human respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and disease
severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide, as …

Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling outward aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities

S Asadi, CD Cappa, S Barreda, AS Wexler… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge in demand for facemasks to protect against
disease transmission. In response to shortages, many public health authorities have …

Expiratory aerosol particle escape from surgical masks due to imperfect sealing

CD Cappa, S Asadi, S Barreda, AS Wexler… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Wearing surgical masks or other similar face coverings can reduce the emission of
expiratory particles produced via breathing, talking, coughing, or sneezing. Although it is …

Trends in the mechanistic and dynamic modeling of infectious diseases

J Lessler, AS Azman, MK Grabowski, H Salje… - Current Epidemiology …, 2016‏ - Springer
The dynamics of infectious disease epidemics are driven by interactions between
individuals with differing disease status (eg, susceptible, infected, immune). Mechanistic …

How social structures, space, and behaviors shape the spread of infectious diseases using chikungunya as a case study

H Salje, J Lessler, KK Paul, AS Azman… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Whether an individual becomes infected in an infectious disease outbreak depends on
many interconnected risk factors, which may relate to characteristics of the individual (eg …

Assessing the dynamics and control of droplet-and aerosol-transmitted influenza using an indoor positioning system

T Smieszek, G Lazzari, M Salathé - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
There is increasing evidence that aerosol transmission is a major contributor to the spread of
influenza. Despite this, virtually all studies assessing the dynamics and control of influenza …

Common cold in Team Finland during 2018 Winter Olympic Games (PyeongChang): epidemiology, diagnosis including molecular point-of-care testing (POCT) and …

M Valtonen, M Waris, T Vuorinen, E Eerola… - British journal of sports …, 2019‏ - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives The common cold is the main cause of medical time loss in elite sport. Rapid
diagnosis has been a challenge that may be amenable to molecular point-of-care testing …

A systematic Bayesian integration of epidemiological and genetic data

MSY Lau, G Marion, G Streftaris… - PLoS computational …, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Genetic sequence data on pathogens have great potential to inform inference of their
transmission dynamics ultimately leading to better disease control. Where genetic change …

Influenza virus shedding and symptoms: Dynamics and implications from a multiseason household transmission study

SE Morris, HQ Nguyen, CG Grijalva, KE Hanson… - PNAS …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Isolation of symptomatic infectious persons can reduce influenza transmission. However,
virus shedding that occurs without symptoms will be unaffected by such measures …

An open source tool to infer epidemiological and immunological dynamics from serological data: serosolver

JA Hay, A Minter, KEC Ainslie, J Lessler… - PLoS computational …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
We present a flexible, open source R package designed to obtain biological and
epidemiological insights from serological datasets. Characterising past exposures for multi …