Search Results - "Scotch, Matthew"
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Mathematical assessment of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on curtailing the 2019 novel Coronavirus
Published in Mathematical biosciences (01-07-2020)“…A pandemic of a novel Coronavirus emerged in December of 2019 (COVID-19), causing devastating public health impact across the world. In the absence of a safe…”
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Comparison of ARIMA and Random Forest time series models for prediction of avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks
Published in BMC bioinformatics (13-08-2014)“…Time series models can play an important role in disease prediction. Incidence data can be used to predict the future occurrence of disease events…”
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Social Media Mining for Toxicovigilance: Automatic Monitoring of Prescription Medication Abuse from Twitter
Published in Drug safety (01-03-2016)“…Introduction Prescription medication overdose is the fastest growing drug-related problem in the USA. The growing nature of this problem necessitates the…”
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A systematic review of spatial decision support systems in public health informatics supporting the identification of high risk areas for zoonotic disease outbreaks
Published in International journal of health geographics (30-10-2018)“…Zoonotic diseases account for a substantial portion of infectious disease outbreaks and burden on public health programs to maintain surveillance and…”
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The Molecular Epidemiology and Clinical Phylogenetics of Rhinoviruses Among Paediatric Cases in Sydney, Australia
Published in International journal of infectious diseases (01-09-2021)“…•A clinically matched dataset of rhinovirus (RV) isolates from children in Sydney, Australia•There were significantly more RV-C isolates from paediatric cases…”
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Bayesian phylogeography of influenza A/H3N2 for the 2014-15 season in the United States using three frameworks of ancestral state reconstruction
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-02-2017)“…Ancestral state reconstructions in Bayesian phylogeography of virus pandemics have been improved by utilizing a Bayesian stochastic search variable selection…”
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The Effects of Sampling Location and Predictor Point Estimate Certainty on Posterior Support in Bayesian Phylogeographic Generalized Linear Models
Published in Scientific reports (12-04-2018)“…The use of generalized linear models in Bayesian phylogeography has enabled researchers to simultaneously reconstruct the spatiotemporal history of a virus and…”
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Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Long-Read Sequencing to Identify Enterovirus Circulation in Three Municipalities in Maricopa County, Arizona, Southwest United States between June and October 2020
Published in Viruses (10-09-2021)“…We used wastewater-based epidemiology and amplicon-based long-read high-throughput sequencing for surveillance of enteroviruses (EVs) in Maricopa County,…”
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Exploring Canine Picornavirus Diversity in the USA Using Wastewater Surveillance: From High-Throughput Genomic Sequencing to Immuno-Informatics and Capsid Structure Modeling
Published in Viruses (24-07-2024)“…The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic resulted in a scale-up of viral genomic surveillance globally. However, the wet lab constraints (economic, infrastructural, and…”
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Phylodynamics of Influenza A/H1N1pdm09 in India Reveals Circulation Patterns and Increased Selection for Clade 6b Residues and Other High Mortality Mutants
Published in Viruses (27-08-2019)“…The clinical severity and observed case fatality ratio of influenza A/H1N1pdm09 in India, particularly in 2015 and 2017 far exceeds current global estimates…”
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Use of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase amplicon-based high-throughput sequencing with variant analysis to detect co-infection and resolve identical consensus sequences of seasonal influenza in a university setting
Published in BMC infectious diseases (13-08-2021)“…Abstract Background Local transmission of seasonal influenza viruses (IVs) can be difficult to resolve. Here, we study if coupling high-throughput sequencing…”
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Pan-Enterovirus Amplicon-Based High-Throughput Sequencing Detects the Complete Capsid of a EVA71 Genotype C1 Variant via Wastewater-Based Epidemiology in Arizona
Published in Viruses (07-01-2021)“…We describe the complete capsid of a genotype C1-like Enterovirus A71 variant recovered from wastewater in a neighborhood in the greater Tempe, Arizona area…”
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pyJacqQ : Python Implementation of Jacquez's Q-Statistics for Space-Time Clustering of Disease Exposure in Case-Control Studies
Published in Journal of statistical software (01-10-2016)“…Jacquez's Q is a set of statistics for detecting the presence and location of space-time clusters of disease exposure. Until now, the only implementation was…”
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The Phylogeography of MERS-CoV in Hospital Outbreak-Associated Cases Compared to Sporadic Cases in Saudi Arabia
Published in Viruses (14-05-2020)“…This study compared the phylogeography of MERS-CoV between hospital outbreak-associated cases and sporadic cases in Saudi Arabia. We collected complete genome…”
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Detection of human, porcine and canine picornaviruses in municipal sewage sludge using pan-enterovirus amplicon-based long-read Illumina sequencing
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (01-12-2022)“…We describe the successful detection of human, porcine and canine picornaviruses (CanPV) in sewage sludge (at each stage of treatment) from Louisville,…”
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Comparison of human and animal surveillance data for H5N1 influenza A in Egypt 2006-2011
Published in PloS one (27-09-2012)“…The majority of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic (transmissible between animals and humans) in origin, and therefore integrated surveillance of…”
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Characterising routes of H5N1 and H7N9 spread in China using Bayesian phylogeographical analysis
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (21-11-2018)“…Avian influenza H5N1 subtype has caused a global public health concern due to its high pathogenicity in poultry and high case fatality rates in humans. The…”
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Genomic epidemiology reveals the dominance of Hennepin County in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Minnesota from 2020 to 2022
Published in mSphere (20-12-2023)“…We analyzed over 22,000 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomes of patient samples tested at Mayo Clinic Laboratories during a…”
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Animals as sentinels: Using comparative medicine to move beyond the laboratory
Published in ILAR journal (2010)“…The comparative medicine approach, as applied to the study of laboratory animals for the betterment of human health, has resulted in important medical and…”
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