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My current research projects include work on the transmission dynamics of influenza in southern China, and the most effective use of vaccine in the control of measles and cholera.
I am a member of the Infectious Disease Dynamics group.
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Azman, A.*, Luquero, F.J., Rodrigues, A., Palma, P.P., Grais, R.F., Na Banga, C., Grenfell, B.T., Lessler, J.† (2012) Urban Cholera Transmission Hotspots and their Implications for Reactive Vaccination: Evidence from Bissau City, Guinea Bissau. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6:e1901.doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001901
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Rainwater-Lovett, K.*, Rodriguez-Barraquer, I.*, Cummings, D.A.T., Lessler, J.† (2012) Variation in dengue virus plaque reduction neutralization testing: systematic review and pooled analysis. BMC Infectious Disease [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-233
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Edlund, S., Davis, M., Douglas, J.V., Kershenbaum, A., Narongrit, W., Lessler, J., Kaufman, J. H. (2012) A global model of malaria climate sensitivity: comparing malaria response to historic climate data based on simulation and officially reported malaria incidence. Malaria Journal [Epub ahead of print].doi:10.1186/1475-2875-11-331
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Lessler, J., Riley, S., Read, J.M., Wang, S., Zhu, H., Smith, J.D.S., Guan, Y., Jiang, C.Q., Cummings, D.A.T. (2012) Evidence for Antigenic Seniority in Influenza A (H3N2) Antibody Responses in Southern China. PLoS Pathogens 8:e1002802. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002802
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Read, J.M., Edmunds, W.J., Riley, S., Lessler, J., Cummings, D.A.T. (2012) Close encounters of the infectious kind: methods to measure social mixing behaviour. Epidemiology and Infection 140:2117-2130. doi:10.1017/S0950268812000842