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Edward Goldstein

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Verified email at meei.harvard.edu
Cited by 6940

On the effect of age on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households, schools, and the community

E Goldstein, M Lipsitch, M Cevik - The Journal of infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background There is limited information on the effect of age on the transmission of SARS-
CoV-2 infection in different settings. Methods We reviewed published studies/data on …

[HTML][HTML] How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

EK Accorsi, X Qiu, E Rumpler… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, public health scientists have
produced a large and rapidly expanding body of literature that aims to answer critical …

Spasticity management: an overview

EM Goldstein - Journal of child neurology, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent developments in therapeutic interventions for children with spasticity have
complicated managerial decision making. A simplified paradigm for the pathophysiology of …

Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period

SM Kissler, C Tedijanto, E Goldstein, YH Grad… - Science, 2020 - science.org
It is urgent to understand the future of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) transmission. We used estimates of seasonality, immunity, and cross …

Absolute humidity and pandemic versus epidemic influenza

J Shaman, E Goldstein, M Lipsitch - American journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Experimental and epidemiologic evidence indicates that variations of absolute humidity
account for the onset and seasonal cycle of epidemic influenza in temperate regions. A role …

Genomic epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with reduced susceptibility to cefixime in the USA: a retrospective observational study

YH Grad, RD Kirkcaldy, D Trees, J Dordel… - The Lancet infectious …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The emergence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with decreased
susceptibility to extended spectrum cephalosporins raises the prospect of untreatable …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the epidemic sizes of influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B: a statistical method

E Goldstein, S Cobey, S Takahashi, JC Miller… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background The epidemic sizes of influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1, and B infections vary from
year to year in the United States. We use publicly available US Centers for Disease Control …

Regulation of bacterial DNA supercoiling: plasmid linking numbers vary with growth temperature.

E Goldstein, K Drlica - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984 - National Acad Sciences
The level of DNA supercoiling can be altered either by breaking-rejoining reactions that
change the DNA linking number or by environmental changes that alter the helical pitch of …

Improving the estimation of influenza-related mortality over a seasonal baseline

E Goldstein, C Viboud, V Charu, M Lipsitch - Epidemiology, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background: Existing methods for estimation of mortality attributable to influenza are limited
by methodological and data uncertainty. We have used proxies for disease incidence of the …

[HTML][HTML] On the relative role of different age groups in influenza epidemics

CJ Worby, SS Chaves, J Wallinga, M Lipsitch, L Finelli… - Epidemics, 2015 - Elsevier
The identification of key “driver” groups in influenza epidemics is of much interest for the
implementation of effective public health response strategies, including vaccination …