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In-roads to the spread of antibiotic resistance: regional patterns of microbial transmission in northern coastal EcuadorJoseph N S Eisenberg
School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J R Soc Interface 9:1029-39. 2012..While usually conceived as a main effect on individual risk, antibiotic use rate is revealed in this analysis as an effect modifier with regard to community-level risk of resistance...- Toward a systems approach to enteric pathogen transmission: from individual independence to community interdependenceJoseph N S Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 33:239-57. 2012..These systems approaches should be employed to account for community effects (i.e., interactions among individuals and/or households)... - Microbial risk assessment framework for exposure to amended sludge projectsJoseph N S Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:727-33. 2008..Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a long history of using risk-based approaches for regulatory purposes, pollutant limits for pathogens in biosolids are not currently based on quantitative risk assessments... - Environmental determinants of infectious disease: a framework for tracking causal links and guiding public health researchJoseph N S Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 3028, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1216-23. 2007.... - Integrating disease control strategies: balancing water sanitation and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrheal disease burdenJoseph N S Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 3028, USA
Am J Public Health 97:846-52. 2007..We tested a modeling framework designed to capture the interdependent transmission pathways of enteric pathogens... - Environmental change and infectious disease: how new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural EcuadorJoseph N S Eisenberg
School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:19460-5. 2006..This study provides insight into the initial health impacts that roads have on communities and into the social and environmental processes that create these impacts... - Inferences drawn from a risk assessment compared directly with a randomized trial of a home drinking water interventionJoseph N S Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1199-204. 2006..Key words: drinking water, gastrointestinal, intervention trial, microbial risk assessment, waterborne pathogens... - Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural EcuadorSarah J Bates
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:1088-95. 2007..1, 10.1 in the contact network and risk ratio = 4.9, 95% CI: 1.1, 21.9 in the food network). Some of these differences may be related to more new residents, lower housing density, and less social connectedness in road communities... - Plesiomonas shigelloides infection, Ecuador, 2004-2008Juan C Escobar
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 18:322-4. 2012..We found little evidence that single infection with P. shigelloides is associated with diarrhea but stronger evidence that co-infection with rotavirus causes diarrhea... - Seasonality of rotavirus disease in the tropics: a systematic review and meta-analysisKaren Levy
Department of Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Int J Epidemiol 38:1487-96. 2009..We present a systematic review and meta-analysis on the seasonal epidemiology of rotavirus in the tropics, including 26 studies reporting continuous monthly rotavirus incidence for which corresponding climatological data was available... - Following the water: a controlled study of drinking water storage in northern coastal EcuadorKaren Levy
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1533-40. 2008.... 
How infections propagate after point-source outbreaks: an analysis of secondary norovirus transmissionJonathan L Zelner
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Epidemiology 21:711-8. 2010..It can become the source of further community transmission as well as new point-source outbreaks. Consequently, time-series data from exposed households provide information for risk assessment and intervention...- Drivers of water quality variability in northern coastal EcuadorKaren Levy
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 137 Mulford Hall 3114, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3114, USA
Environ Sci Technol 43:1788-97. 2009..The variability can be understood as a combination of environmental (e.g., seasonal and soil processes) and other drivers (e.g., human river use, water practices, and sanitation), each working at different time scales... - A dynamic dose-response model to account for exposure patterns in risk assessment: a case study in inhalation anthraxBryan T Mayer
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J R Soc Interface 8:506-17. 2011..Ultimately, the dynamic dose-response paradigm presented here will improve modelling of environmental transmission systems where different systems have different time patterns of exposure... - Sustainable control of water-related infectious diseases: a review and proposal for interdisciplinary health-based systems researchStuart Batterman
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1023-32. 2009..Here we review historical practices in water-related infectious disease research and propose an interdisciplinary public health oriented systems approach to research and intervention design... 
Bias due to secondary transmission in estimation of attributable risk from intervention trialsJoseph N S Eisenberg
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Epidemiology 14:442-50. 2003....- The Sonoma water evaluation trial: a randomized drinking water intervention trial to reduce gastrointestinal illness in older adultsJohn M Colford
School of Public Health, University of California, 50 University Hall, MC 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Public Health 99:1988-95. 2009.... - A pilot randomized, controlled trial of an in-home drinking water intervention among HIV + personsJohn M Colford
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Divisions of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, 140 Warren Hall 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
J Water Health 3:173-84. 2005..The magnitude of the point estimate of the risk, its consistency with recently published observational data, and its relevance for drinking water choices by immunocompromised individuals support the need for larger trials... - The role of disease transmission and conferred immunity in outbreaks: analysis of the 1993 Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee, WisconsinJoseph N S Eisenberg
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:62-72. 2005..The incidence data were consistent with this hypothesis. Further simulations suggested that increasing the distance between the wastewater effluent and the drinking-water influent may have prevented the outbreak... - A dynamic model to assess microbial health risks associated with beneficial uses of biosolidsJoseph N S Eisenberg
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Risk Anal 24:221-36. 2004..Further refinement in methods for determining biosolids exposures under field conditions would certainly increase the utility of these approaches... - Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directionsKathleen F Bush
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:765-70. 2011..More research is needed, particularly in developing countries, to accurately predict the anticipated impacts and inform effective interventions... - Dynamics and control of infections transmitted from person to person through the environmentSheng Li
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:257-65. 2009..These insights provide theoretical contexts to examine the role of the environment in pathogen transmission and a framework to interpret environmental data to inform environmental interventions... - Risk-based approach to evaluate the public health benefit of additional wastewater treatmentJeffrey A Soller
Eisenberg, Olivieri, and Associates, 1410 Jackson Street, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Environ Sci Technol 37:1882-91. 2003..The methodologies employed herein are applicable to other watersheds where additional water treatment is being considered to address public health concerns from recreation in receiving waters... - Disease transmission models for public health decision making: analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogensJoseph N S Eisenberg
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:783-90. 2002..Two studies--a Giardia risk assessment case study and an analysis of the 1993 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cryptosporidium outbreak--illustrate the role that models can play in policy making... - Do U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water quality guidelines for recreational waters prevent gastrointestinal illness? A systematic review and meta-analysisTimothy J Wade
Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, U S Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1102-9. 2003..Future studies should focus on the ability of new, more rapid and specific microbial methods to predict health effects, and estimating the risks of recreational water exposure among susceptible persons... - Raising the level of analysis of food-borne outbreaks: food-sharing networks in rural coastal EcuadorJames A Trostle
Anthropology Department, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106 3100, USA
Epidemiology 19:384-90. 2008.... - Symptomatic and subclinical infection with rotavirus P[8]G9, rural EcuadorPablo Endara
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
Emerg Infect Dis 13:574-80. 2007..Few countries have reported P[8]G9 rotavirus detection rates as high as those of the current study. This growing prevalence may require changes to current vaccination programs to include coverage for this genotype... - Retail meat consumption and the acquisition of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections: a case-control studyAmee R Manges
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Foodborne Pathog Dis 4:419-31. 2007..We sought to determine if acquisition of and infection with a UTI-causing, antimicrobial resistant E. coli isolate is associated with a woman's dietary habits, specifically her preparation and consumption of retail meat products... - High prevalence of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli isolated in a remote region of northern coastal EcuadorNadia Vieira
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Vía Interoceánica, Círculo Cumbayá, Quito, Ecuador
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:528-33. 2007..EIEC was the predominant diarrheagenic bacteria isolated in our community-based study, a unique observation compared with other regions of the world... - The natural history of antibody responses to Cryptosporidium parasites in men at high risk of HIV infectionSukhminder K Sandhu
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Infect Dis 194:1428-37. 2006..Although the clinical severity of cryptosporidiosis is altered by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related immunosuppression, little is known about how risk for Cryptosporidium infection is altered by HIV... - Statistical estimation of parameters in a disease transmission model: analysis of a Cryptosporidium outbreakM Alan Brookhart
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Stat Med 21:3627-38. 2002.... - A public health evaluation of recreational water impairmentJeffrey A Soller
EOA, Inc, 1410 Jackson St, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Water Health 4:1-19. 2006..The results of this study indicate that interpreting the public health implications of fecal indicator data in recreational water may require a more rigorous approach than is currently used...
Research Grants
- Environmental change and diarrheal disease: A natural experimentJoseph Eisenberg; Fiscal Year: 2007..These visits will include open-ended interviews as well as additional questions about social network formation and change. The visits will also allow village development and road. ..
- Environment Change and Diarrheal Disease: A Natural ExperimentJoseph Eisenberg; Fiscal Year: 2009..This project design takes advantage of previously collected cross-sectional data to mount a longitudinal study of disease transmission at multiple levels of analysis among 21 different communities. ..
- Environment Change and Diarrheal Disease: A Natural ExperimentJoseph N S Eisenberg; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project design takes advantage of previously collected cross-sectional data to mount a longitudinal study of disease transmission at multiple levels of analysis among 21 different communities. ..