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| Janneke C M HeijneSummaryAffiliation: University of Bern Country: Switzerland Publications
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The role of reinfection and partner notification in the efficacy of Chlamydia screening programsJanneke C M Heijne
Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
J Infect Dis 203:372-7. 2011..Effective management of sex partners to prevent reinfection might need to be strengthened in chlamydia control programs...
Insights into the timing of repeated testing after treatment for Chlamydia trachomatis: data and modelling studyJanneke Cornelia Maria Heijne
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sex Transm Infect 89:57-62. 2013..The objective of this study was to determine the optimal time interval for a repeated Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) test...
Quantifying transmission of norovirus during an outbreakJanneke C M Heijne
Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Epidemiology 23:277-84. 2012....
Enhanced hygiene measures and norovirus transmission during an outbreakJanneke C M Heijne
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 15:24-30. 2009..This reduction was unexpectedly large but still below the reduction needed to contain a norovirus outbreak. Even more stringent control measures are required to break the chain of transmission of norovirus...
Transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis through sexual partnerships: a comparison between three individual-based models and empirical dataChristian L Althaus
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
J R Soc Interface 9:136-46. 2012..We suggest that the Gini coefficient is a useful measure for calibrating infectious disease models that include risk structure and highlight the need to estimate this measure for other STIs...
Towards more robust estimates of the transmissibility of Chlamydia trachomatisChristian L Althaus
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sex Transm Dis 39:402-4. 2012..Using a mathematical model that takes into account the dynamics of chlamydia transmission and sexual partnership formation, we report refined estimates of chlamydia transmissibility in heterosexual partnerships...
Uptake of regular chlamydia testing by U.S. women: a longitudinal studyJanneke C M Heijne
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Am J Prev Med 39:243-50. 2010..Routine chlamydia screening is a recommended preventive intervention for sexually active women aged </=25 years in the U.S. but rates of regular uptake are not known...
Describing the progression from Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae to pelvic inflammatory disease: systematic review of mathematical modeling studiesSereina A Herzog
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sex Transm Dis 39:628-37. 2012..A systematic review was conducted to determine how the natural history of Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection and progression to PID have been described in mathematical modeling studies...
Transmission dynamics of Chlamydia trachomatis affect the impact of screening programmesChristian L Althaus
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Epidemics 2:123-31. 2010..However, due to the slower turnover of the infection, a substantial reduction in prevalence can only be achieved after screening for several years or decades...
Individual and population level effects of partner notification for Chlamydia trachomatisChristian L Althaus
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e51438. 2012..trachomatis at the population level. The findings of this study demonstrate the difference between individual and population level outcomes of public health interventions for STIs...
Infectious disease transmission as a forensic problem: who infected whom?Peter Teunis
Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J R Soc Interface 10:20120955. 2013..This illustrates that the proposed method can be used to accurately reconstruct transmission networks, enhancing our understanding of outbreak dynamics and possibly leading to new insights into how to prevent outbreaks...
A measles epidemic threshold in a highly vaccinated populationJacco Wallinga
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
PLoS Med 2:e316. 2005..These two explanations for the irregular sequence of measles outbreaks can be tested against observations of both the fraction of susceptible individuals and infection attack rates...
