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Modeling scenarios for mitigating outbreaks in congregate settings by Blumberg, Seth, Lu, Phoebe, Kwan, Ada T, Hoover, Christopher M, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Sears, David, Bertozzi, Stefano M, Worden, Lee

“…The explosive outbreaks of COVID-19 seen in congregate settings such as prisons and nursing homes, has highlighted a critical need for effective outbreak…”
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Somewhere to go: assessing the impact of public restroom interventions on reports of open defecation in San Francisco, California from 2014 to 2020 by Amato, Heather K., Martin, Douglas, Hoover, Christopher M., Graham, Jay P.

“…Background Open defecation due to a lack of access to sanitation facilities remains a public health issue in the United States. People experiencing…”
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Prenatal and early-life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine increased the risk of tuberculosis in adulthood across two generations by Cheng, Qu, Trangucci, Robert, Nelson, Kristin N., Fu, Wenjiang, Collender, Philip A., Head, Jennifer R., Hoover, Christopher M., Skaff, Nicholas K., Li, Ting, Li, Xintong, You, Yue, Fang, Liqun, Liang, Song, Yang, Changhong, He, Jin’ge, Zelner, Jonathan L., Remais, Justin V.

“…Global food security is a major driver of population health, and food system collapse may have complex and long-lasting effects on health outcomes. We examined…”
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Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts by Halstead, Neal T., Hoover, Christopher M., Arakala, Arathi, Civitello, David J., De Leo, Giulio A., Gambhir, Manoj, Johnson, Steve A., Jouanard, Nicolas, Loerns, Kristin A., McMahon, Taegan A., Ndione, Raphael A., Nguyen, Karena, Raffel, Thomas R., Remais, Justin V., Riveau, Gilles, Sokolow, Susanne H., Rohr, Jason R.

“…Schistosomiasis is a snail-borne parasitic disease that ranks among the most important water-based diseases of humans in developing countries. Increased…”
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Quantitative reverse transcription PCR assay to detect a genetic marker of pyrethroid resistance in Culex mosquitoes by Hager, Kelli M, Gaona, Erick, Kistler, Amy, Ratnasiri, Kalani, Retallack, Hanna, Barretto, Miguel, Wheeler, Sarah S, Hoover, Christopher M, Haas-Stapleton, Eric J

“…Pyrethroid insecticides are widely used to control mosquitoes that transmit pathogens such as West Nile virus (WNV) to people. Single nucleotide polymorphisms…”
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Hydroclimatic drivers of highly seasonal leptospirosis incidence suggest prominent soil reservoir of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in rural western China by Cucchi, Karina, Liu, Runyou, Collender, Philip A, Cheng, Qu, Li, Charles, Hoover, Christopher M, Chang, Howard H, Liang, Song, Yang, Changhong, Remais, Justin V

“…Climate exerts complex influences on leptospirosis transmission, affecting human behavior, zoonotic host population dynamics, and survival of the pathogen in…”
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Aligning staff schedules, testing, and isolation reduces the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in carceral and other congregate settings: A simulation study by Hoover, Christopher M, Skaff, Nicholas K, Blumberg, Seth, Fukunaga, Rena

“…COVID-19 outbreaks in congregate settings remain a serious threat to the health of disproportionately affected populations such as people experiencing…”
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UNC-16 (JIP3) Acts Through Synapse-Assembly Proteins to Inhibit the Active Transport of Cell Soma Organelles to Caenorhabditis elegans Motor Neuron Axons by Edwards, Stacey L, Morrison, Logan M, Yorks, Rosalina M, Hoover, Christopher M, Boominathan, Soorajnath, Miller, Kenneth G

“…The conserved protein UNC-16 (JIP3) inhibits the active transport of some cell soma organelles, such as lysosomes, early endosomes, and Golgi, to the synaptic…”
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L-SIGN is a receptor on liver sinusoidal endothelial cells for SARS-CoV-2 virus by Kondo, Yuji, Larabee, Jason L., Gao, Liang, Shi, Huiping, Shao, Bojing, Hoover, Christopher M., McDaniel, J. Michael, Ho, Yen-Chun, Silasi-Mansat, Robert, Archer-Hartmann, Stephanie A., Azadi, Parastoo, Srinivasan, R. Sathish, Rezaie, Alireza R., Borczuk, Alain, Laurence, Jeffrey C., Lupu, Florea, Ahamed, Jasimuddin, McEver, Rodger P., Papin, James F., Yu, Zhongxin, Xia, Lijun

“…Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), remains a pandemic. Severe disease is associated…”
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Synapse-Assembly Proteins Maintain Synaptic Vesicle Cluster Stability and Regulate Synaptic Vesicle Transport in Caenorhabditis elegans by Edwards, Stacey L, Yorks, Rosalina M, Morrison, Logan M, Hoover, Christopher M, Miller, Kenneth G

“…The functional integrity of neurons requires the bidirectional active transport of synaptic vesicles (SVs) in axons. The kinesin motor KIF1A transports SVs…”
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Estimating the elimination feasibility in the 'end game' of control efforts for parasites subjected to regular mass drug administration: Methods and their application to schistosomiasis by Arakala, Arathi, Hoover, Christopher M, Marshall, John M, Sokolow, Susanne H, De Leo, Giulio A, Rohr, Jason R, Remais, Justin V, Gambhir, Manoj

“…Progress towards controlling and eliminating parasitic worms, including schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis, is advancing rapidly as…”
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Genetic Evidence of Contemporary Dispersal of the Intermediate Snail Host of Schistosoma japonicum: Movement of an NTD Host Is Facilitated by Land Use and Landscape Connectivity by Head, Jennifer R, Chang, Howard, Li, Qunna, Hoover, Christopher M, Wilke, Thomas, Clewing, Catharina, Carlton, Elizabeth J, Liang, Song, Lu, Ding, Zhong, Bo, Remais, Justin V

“…While the dispersal of hosts and vectors-through active or passive movement-is known to facilitate the spread and re-emergence of certain infectious diseases,…”
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California's COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Policy: Cases, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Averted In Affected Communities by Hoover, Christopher M, Estus, Emily, Kwan, Ada, Raymond, Kristal, Sreedharan, Tanu, León, Tomás, Jain, Seema, Shete, Priya B

“…In March 2021, California implemented a vaccine equity policy that prioritized COVID-19 vaccine allocation to communities identified as least advantaged by an…”
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Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns by Sokolow, Susanne H., Jones, Isabel J., Jocque, Merlijn, La, Diana, Cords, Olivia, Knight, Anika, Lund, Andrea, Wood, Chelsea L., Lafferty, Kevin D., Hoover, Christopher M., Collender, Phillip A., Remais, Justin V., Lopez-Carr, David, Fisk, Jonathan, Kuris, Armand M., De Leo, Giulio A.

“…Dams have long been associated with elevated burdens of human schistosomiasis, but how dams increase disease is not always clear, in part because dams have…”
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School closures reduced social mixing of children during COVID-19 with implications for transmission risk and school reopening policies by Head, Jennifer R, Andrejko, Kristin L, Cheng, Qu, Collender, Philip A, Phillips, Sophie, Boser, Anna, Heaney, Alexandra K, Hoover, Christopher M, Wu, Sean L, Northrup, Graham R, Click, Karen, Bardach, Naomi S, Lewnard, Joseph A, Remais, Justin V

“…School closures may reduce the size of social networks among children, potentially limiting infectious disease transmission. To estimate the impact of K-12…”
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REPLY TO LI ET AL: Estimate of the association between TB risk and famine intensity is robust to various famine intensity estimators by Cheng, Qu, Collender, Philip A., Head, Jennifer R., Hoover, Christopher M., Zelner, Jonathan L., Mahmud, Ayesha S., Remais, Justin V.

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Reframing Optimal Control Problems for Infectious Disease Management in Low-Income Countries by Igoe, Morganne, Casagrandi, Renato, Gatto, Marino, Hoover, Christopher M., Mari, Lorenzo, Ngonghala, Calistus N., Remais, Justin V., Sanchirico, James N., Sokolow, Susanne H., Lenhart, Suzanne, de Leo, Giulio

“…Optimal control theory can be a useful tool to identify the best strategies for the management of infectious diseases. In most of the applications to disease…”
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Thermal thresholds heighten sensitivity of West Nile virus transmission to changing temperatures in coastal California by Skaff, Nicholas K., Cheng, Qu, Clemesha, Rachel E. S., Collender, Philip A., Gershunov, Alexander, Head, Jennifer R., Hoover, Christopher M., Lettenmaier, Dennis P., Rohr, Jason R., Snyder, Robert E., Remais, Justin V.

“…Temperature is widely known to influence the spatio-temporal dynamics of vector-borne disease transmission, particularly as temperatures vary across critical…”
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An organelle gatekeeper function for Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-16 (JIP3) at the axon initial segment by Edwards, Stacey L, Yu, Szi-chieh, Hoover, Christopher M, Phillips, Barret C, Richmond, Janet E, Miller, Kenneth G

“…Neurons must cope with extreme membrane trafficking demands to produce axons with organelle compositions that differ dramatically from those of the cell soma…”
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Estimating the Risk of Domestic Water Source Contamination Following Precipitation Events by Eisenhauer, Ian F, Hoover, Christopher M, Remais, Justin V, Monaghan, Andrew, Celada, Marco, Carlton, Elizabeth J

“…Climate change is expected to increase precipitation extremes, threatening water quality. In low resource settings, it is unclear which water sources are most…”
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