Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

Autor: Emily Howerton, Matthew J. Ferrari, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Tiffany L. Bogich, Rebecca K. Borchering, Chris P. Jewell, James D. Nichols, William J. M. Probert, Michael C. Runge, Michael J. Tildesley, Cécile Viboud, Katriona Shea

Publikováno v: PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 10 (2021)

Stay-at-home orders and shutdowns of non-essential businesses are powerful, but socially costly, tools to control the pandemic spread of SARS-CoV-2. Mass testing strategies, which rely on widely administered frequent and rapid diagnostics to identify

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The role of case proximity in transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in a highly endemic village in Bangladesh.

Autor: Lloyd A C Chapman, Chris P Jewell, Simon E F Spencer, Lorenzo Pellis, Samik Datta, Rajib Chowdhury, Caryn Bern, Graham F Medley, T Déirdre Hollingsworth

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 10, p e0006453 (2018)

BACKGROUND:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is characterised by a high degree of spatial clustering at all scales, and this feature remains even with successful control measures. VL is targeted for elimination as a public health problem in the Indian subc

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Contact patterns of UK home delivery drivers and their use of protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Autor: Jessica RE Bridgen, Hua Wei, Carl Whitfield, Yang Han, Ian Hall, Chris P Jewell, Martie JA van Tongeren, Jonathan M Read

Publikováno v: Bridgen, J R E, Wei, H, Whitfield, C, Han, Y, Hall, I, Jewell, C P, van Tongeren, M J A & Read, J M 2023, ' Contact patterns of UK home delivery drivers and their use of protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional study ', Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 333-338 . https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2022-108646

ObjectivesTo quantify contact patterns of UK home delivery drivers and identify protective measures adopted during the pandemic.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional online survey to measure the interactions of 170 UK delivery drivers during a workin

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.09.22279754

Inferring transmission trees to guide targeting of interventions against visceral leishmaniasis and post–kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis

Autor: T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Mary M. Cameron, Caryn Bern, Chris P. Jewell, Dinesh Mondal, Timothy M Pollington, Lloyd A. C. Chapman, Simon E. F. Spencer, Graham F. Medley, Jorge Alvar

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Significance Methods for analyzing individual-level geo-located disease data have existed for some time, but have rarely been used to analyze endemic human diseases. Here we apply such methods to nearly a decade’s worth of uniquely detailed epidemi

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002731117

Social mixing patterns in the UK following the relaxation of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions: a cross-sectional online survey

Autor: Jessica R E Bridgen, Jonathan M Read, Chris P. Jewell

BackgroundSince 23 March 2020, social distancing measures have been implemented in the UK to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. We conducted a cross-sectional survey to quantify and characterize non-household contact and to identify the effect of shield

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.22.21265371