Publications

MITIGATE FLU Publications

1. Seasonal Influenza Viruses Decay More Rapidly at Intermediate Humidity in Droplets Containing Saliva Compared to Respiratory Mucus

2. Incidence and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in US Child Care Centers After COVID-19 Vaccines

3. Size-Resolved Elemental Composition of Respiratory Particles in Three Healthy Subjects

4. Environmental Stability of Enveloped Viruses Is Impacted by Initial Volume and Evaporation Kinetics of Droplets

5. Review of Factors Affecting Virus Inactivation in Aerosols and Droplets

6. Ventilation Does Not Affect Close-Range Transmission of Influenza Virus in a Ferret Playpen Setup

Selected prior flu-related publications from the MITIGATE FLU team

1. Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy enabled evaluation of bacterial inactivation

2. Influenza A(H3N2) Outbreak on a university campus - Michigan, October-November 2021

3. Wastewater-based detection of two influenza outbreaks

4. Environmental Persistence of Influenza Viruses Is Dependent upon Virus Type and Host Origin

5. Humidity-dependent decay of viruses, but not bacteria, in aerosols and droplets follows disinfection kinetics

6. Mechanistic insights into the effect of humidity on airborne influenza virus survival, transmission and incidence

7. Influenza Virus Infectivity Is Retained in Aerosols and Droplets Independent of Relative Humidity

8. Simulation of vertical concentration gradient of influenza viruses in dust resuspended by walking

9. Relationship between humidity and influenza A viability in droplets and implications for influenza’s seasonality

10. Mechanisms by which ambient humidity may affect viruses in aerosols

11. Concentrations and Size Distributions of Airborne Influenza A Viruses Measured Indoors at a Health Center, a Daycare, and on Aeroplanes

12. Dynamics of airborne influenza A viruses indoors and dependence on humidity

13. Influenza virus transmission is dependent on relative humidity and temperature 

14. Transmission of influenza virus in a mammalian host is increased by PB2 amino acids 627K or 627E/701N 

15. Roles of humidity and temperature in shaping influenza seasonality 

16. Animal models for influenza virus pathogenesis and transmission 

17. The guinea pig as a transmission model for human influenza viruses 

18. High temperature (30 C) blocks aerosol but not contact transmission of influenza virus 

19. Transmission of influenza virus via aerosols and fomites in the guinea pig model 

20. Transmission of a 2009 pandemic influenza virus shows a sensitivity to temperature and humidity similar to that of an H3N2 seasonal strain 

21. Transmission of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus and impact of prior exposure to seasonal strains or interferon treatment 

22. The M segment of the 2009 new pandemic H1N1 influenza virus is critical for its high transmission efficiency in the guinea pig model 

23. Transmission of influenza virus in temperate zones is predominantly by aerosol, in the tropics by contact 

24. Influenza A viruses are transmitted via the air from the nasal respiratory epithelium of ferrets 

25. Influenza virus transmission: basic science and implications for the use of antiviral drugs during a pandemic 

26. Influenza A virus coinfection through transmission can support high levels of reassortment 

27. Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses 

28. Eurasian-origin gene segments contribute to the transmissibility, aerosol release, and morphology of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus 

29. The soft palate is an important site of adaptation for transmissible influenza viruses 

30. Moving on out: transport and packaging of influenza viral RNA into virions 

31. The ongoing battle against influenza: the challenge of flu transmission 

32. Receptor specificity does not affect replication or virulence of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in mice and ferrets 

33. Robustness of the ferret model for influenza risk assessment studies: a cross-laboratory exercise 

34. Stochastic processes constrain the within and between host evolution of influenza virus 

35. A novel twelve class fluctuation test reveals higher than expected mutation rates for influenza A viruses 

36. The mutational robustness of influenza A virus 

37. Mutation and epistasis in influenza virus evolution 

38. Prevention of influenza hospitalization among adults in the United States, 2015–2016: results from the US Hospitalized Adult Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network (HAIVEN) 

39. Influenza B viruses exhibit lower within-host diversity than influenza A viruses in human hosts 

40. Evaluation of correlates of protection against influenza A (H3N2) and A (H1N1) pdm09 infection: Applications to the hospitalized patient population 

41. Pre-existing heterosubtypic immunity provides a barrier to airborne transmission of influenza viruses 

42. Epistatic interactions within the influenza A virus polymerase complex mediate mutagen resistance and replication fidelity 

43. The shifting demographic landscape of pandemic influenza 

44. Contact, travel, and transmission: The impact of winter holidays on influenza dynamics in the United States 

45. The missing season: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza 

46. Deploying digital health data to optimize influenza surveillance at national and local scales 

47. Detecting signals of seasonal influenza severity through age dynamics 

48. Spatiotemporal patterns and diffusion of the 1918 influenza pandemic in British India 

49. Health inequities in influenza transmission and surveillance 

50. Communicable disease outbreaks in Michigan child care centers compared with state and regional epidemics, 2014–2017