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Testing for COVID-19 is Much More Effective When Performed Immediately Prior to Social Mixing
Wells CR, Gokcebel S, Pandey A, Galvani AP, Townsend JP. Testing for COVID-19 is Much More Effective When Performed Immediately Prior to Social Mixing. International Journal Of Public Health 2022, 67: 1604659. PMID: 35967267, PMCID: PMC9363582, DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604659.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe Prognostic Value of an RT-PCR Test for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Is Contingent on Timing across Disease Time Course in addition to Assay Sensitivity
Townsend JP, Wells CR. The Prognostic Value of an RT-PCR Test for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Is Contingent on Timing across Disease Time Course in addition to Assay Sensitivity. Journal Of Molecular Diagnostics 2021, 24: 101-103. PMID: 34974875, PMCID: PMC8717055, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2021.10.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCOVID-19HumansPrognosisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and Specificity
2016
One Health approach to cost-effective rabies control in India
Fitzpatrick MC, Shah HA, Pandey A, Bilinski AM, Kakkar M, Clark AD, Townsend JP, Abbas SS, Galvani AP. One Health approach to cost-effective rabies control in India. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: 14574-14581. PMID: 27994161, PMCID: PMC5187709, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604975113.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman rabiesRabies deathsCanine vaccinationStray dogsHuman rabies deathsRabies controlCost-effectiveness thresholdPostexposure vaccinationWHO criteriaDog bitesAutopsy dataHealth outcomesHealth approachSurveillance dataVaccinationCost-effective strategyDogsRabiesRabies surveillance dataOne-third
2012
A Test for Selection Employing Quantitative Trait Locus and Mutation Accumulation Data
Rice DP, Townsend JP. A Test for Selection Employing Quantitative Trait Locus and Mutation Accumulation Data. Genetics 2012, 190: 1533-1545. PMID: 22298701, PMCID: PMC3316662, DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.137075.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMutation accumulation dataPhenotypic traitsMutational effectsMutation accumulation experimentsPopulation genetics theoryQuantitative trait lociQuantitative phenotypic traitsAccumulation dataHistory of selectionLocus effect sizesEvolutionary biologistsNeutral evolutionGenetic architectureQTL dataStrong selectionTrait lociSelection strengthDistribution of mutationsNatural selectionPhenotypic diversityHistorical selectionMolecular dataQuantitative traitsGenetic theoryQTL