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Title: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of children ages 5-11 years on COVID-19 disease burden and resilience to new variants in the United States, November 2021-March 2022 : A multi-model study
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub convened nine modeling teams to project the impact of expanding SARS-CoV-2 vaccination to children aged 5-11 years on COVID-19 burden and resilience against variant strains. Methods Teams contributed s...

Title: Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...

Title: Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
Description: In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...

Title: Gene polymorphisms among Plasmodium vivax geographical isolates and the potential as new biomarkers for gametocyte detection
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Ford, Anthony
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: The unique biological features of Plasmodium vivax not only make it difficult to control but also to eliminate. For the transmission of the malaria parasite from infected human to the vector, gametocytes play a major role. The transmission potenti...

Title: EchinoDB : an update to the web-based application for genomic and transcriptomic data on echinoderms
Author: Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Background: Here we release a new version of EchinoDB, EchinoDB v2.0 (https://echinodb.uncc.edu). EchinoDB is a database of genomic and transcriptomic data on echinoderms. The initial database consisted of groups of 749,397 orthologous and paralog...

Title: Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...

Title: A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
Author: Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
Description: Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...

Title: Detection of high prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Assosa zone, Ethiopia : implication for malaria diagnosis
Author: Janies, Daniel, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Lo, Eugenia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) targeting histidine rich protein 2(HRP2) are widely used for diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infections. Besides PfHRP2, the PfHRP3 antigen contributes to the detection of P. falciparum infections in PfH...

Title: Genetic diversity of Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia provides insight into patterns of spread
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background: The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa (HOA) raises concerns about the impact of this mosquito on malaria transmission in the region. Analysis of An. stephensi genetic diversity...

Title: Genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 in Assosa zone, Ethiopia : its impact on the performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
Author: Janies, Daniel, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Lo, Eugenia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are commonly used for the diagnosis of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. However, false negative results of RDT caused by genetic variation of P. falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 genes (pfhrp...

Title: Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...

Title: Whole genome sequencing of Plasmodium vivax isolates reveals frequent sequence and structural polymorphisms in erythrocyte binding genes
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Ford, Anthony, Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is much less common in Africa than the rest of the world because the parasite relies primarily on the Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor (DARC) to invade human erythrocytes, and the majority of Africans are Duffy negative. R...

Title: Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...

Title: Patch dynamics modeling framework from pathogens' perspective : Unified and standardized approach for complicated epidemic systems
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Lo, Eugenia, Dulin, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Mathematical models are powerful tools to investigate, simulate, and evaluate potential interventions for infectious diseases dynamics. Much effort has focused on the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR)-type compartment models. These models consi...

Title: Four challenges associated with current mathematical modeling paradigm of infectious diseases and call for a shift
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Robinson, Patrick, Dulin, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Mathematical models are critical tools to characterize COVID-19 dynamics and take action accordingly. We identified 4 major challenges associated with the current modeling paradigm (SEIR) that hinder the efforts to accurately characterize the emer...

Title: Sequence-based identification of Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background: The recent finding of a typically non-African Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia emphasizes the need for detailed species identification and characterization for effective malaria vector surveillance. Molecular approaches increase t...

Title: Updated phylogeny of chikungunya virus suggests lineage-specific RNA architecture
Author: Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, has recently emerged in the Americas from lineages from two continents: Asia and Africa. Historically, CHIKV circulated as at least four lineages worldwide with both...

Title: Frequent expansion of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein in Ethiopia and its epidemiological significance
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Plasmodium vivax invasion of human erythrocytes depends on the Duffy Binding Protein (PvDBP) which interacts with the Duffy antigen. PvDBP copy number has been recently shown to vary between P. vivax isolates in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the ex...

Title: Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Author: Janies, Daniel, Galac, Madeline R., Kilianski, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Background While overall rates of meningococcal disease have been declining in the United States for the past several decades, New York City (NYC) has experienced two serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreaks in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2013. The o...

Title: Changing of the genomic pattern of Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated in Brazil over a 48 year-period revealed by whole genome SNP analyses
Author: Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Salmonella
Description: Salmonella Enteritidis became the main serovar isolated from gastroenteritis cases in Brazil after the 90's. In this study we used whole genome sequence analysis to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a collection of strains isolated in...