Scientific Publications

Lab dissection of a rodent during a 2013 Orthopox investigation in Georgia.
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Woldetsadik MA, Bratton S, Fitzpatrick K, et al. Qualitative evaluation of enabling factors and barriers to the success and sustainability of national public health institutes in Cambodia, Colombia, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambiaexternal icon. BMJ Open 2022;12:e056767. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056767.
- Health Security Supplement: What Works? Lessons Learned in Global Health Security Implementation (2020)
- Global Disease Detection Supplement: Ten Years of Global Disease Detection and Counting: Program Accomplishments and Lessons Learned in Building Global Health Security (2019)
- Health Security Supplement: Building the Evidence Base for Global Health Security (2018)
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Global Health Security Supplement (2017)
DGHP’s most cited publications from 2017 to 2019 were collected through Scopusexternal icon, a source-neutral abstract and citation database.
180 citations
Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling studyexternal icon. Lancet. 2017 Sep 2;390(10098):946-958. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30938-8. Epub 2017 Jul 7
137 citations
Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015external icon Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Sep;17(9):909-948. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30276-1. Epub 2017 Jun 1.
121 citations
Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling studyexternal icon Lancet. 2018 Mar 31;391(10127):1285-1300. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33293-2. Epub 2017 Dec 14.
24 citations
Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control studyexternal icon Lancet Glob Health. 2017 Apr;5(4):e458-e466. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30035-9. Epub 2017 Jan 31.
23 citations
Ebola virus persistence in breast milk after no reported illness: A likely source of virus transmission from mother to childexternal icon Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Feb 15; 64(4): 513–516. Published online 2017 Jan 7. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw793
16 citations
Is higher viral load in the upper respiratory tract associated with severe pneumonia? Findings from the PERCH studyexternal icon Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 15;64(suppl_3):S337-S346. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix148.
16 citations
Density of upper respiratory colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae and its role in the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among children aged <5 years in the PERCH studyexternal icon Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 15;64(suppl_3):S317-S327. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix100.
16 citations
Chest radiograph findings in childhood pneumonia cases from the multisite PERCH studyexternal icon Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 15;64(suppl_3):S262-S270. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix089.
15 citations
Molecular epidemiology of candida auris in Colombia Reveals a Highly Related, Countrywide Colonization with Regional Patterns in Amphotericin B Resistanceexternal icon Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 1;68(1):15-21. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy411.
15 citations
World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animalsexternal icon Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2018 Jan 17;7:7. doi: 10.1186/s13756-017-0294-9. eCollection 2018.