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DrAnneCori

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease Modelling
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3229a.cori

 
 
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404School of Public HealthWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Cori:2018:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006554,
author = {Cori, A and Nouvellet, P and Garske, T and Bourhy, H and Nakouné, E and Jombart, T},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006554},
journal = {PLoS Computational Biology},
title = {A graph-based evidence synthesis approach to detecting outbreak clusters: An application to dog rabies},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006554},
volume = {14},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Early assessment of infectious disease outbreaks is key to implementing timely and effective control measures. In particular, rapidly recognising whether infected individuals stem from a single outbreak sustained by local transmission, or from repeated introductions, is crucial to adopt effective interventions. In this study, we introduce a new framework for combining several data streams, e.g. temporal, spatial and genetic data, to identify clusters of related cases of an infectious disease. Our method explicitly accounts for underreporting, and allows incorporating preexisting information about the disease, such as its serial interval, spatial kernel, and mutation rate. We define, for each data stream, a graph connecting all cases, with edges weighted by the corresponding pairwise distance between cases. Each graph is then pruned by removing distances greater than a given cutoff, defined based on preexisting information on the disease and assumptions on the reporting rate. The pruned graphs corresponding to different data streams are then merged by intersection to combine all data types; connected components define clusters of cases related for all types of data. Estimates of the reproduction number (the average number of secondary cases infected by an infectious individual in a large population), and the rate of importation of the disease into the population, are also derived. We test our approach on simulated data and illustrate it using data on dog rabies in Central African Republic. We show that the outbreak clusters identified using our method are consistent with structures previously identified by more complex, computationally intensive approaches.
AU  - Cori,A
AU  - Nouvellet,P
AU  - Garske,T
AU  - Bourhy,H
AU  - Nakouné,E
AU  - Jombart,T
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006554
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1553-734X
TI  - A graph-based evidence synthesis approach to detecting outbreak clusters: An application to dog rabies
T2  - PLoS Computational Biology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006554
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/65331
VL  - 14
ER  -
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