Author: Lauren Pischel

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Social mixing patterns of United States healthcare personnel at a quaternary health center: a prospective observational study

Pischel L, Aguolu O, Ahmed N, Campbell M, Borg R, Duckwall C, et al.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol . 2025 Jan; :1-9. PMID: 39880795

Background: Understanding healthcare personnel's (HCP) contact patterns are important to mitigate healthcare-associated infectious disease transmission. Little is known about how HCP contact patterns change over time or during outbreaks such...

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Comprehensive profiling of social mixing patterns in resource poor countries: A mixed methods research protocol

Aguolu O, Kiti M, Nelson K, Liu C, Sundaram M, Gramacho S, et al.

PLoS One . 2024 Jun; 19(6):e0301638. PMID: 38913670

Background: Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionate burden of communicable diseases. Social interaction data inform infectious disease models and disease prevention strategies. The variations in demographics and contact patterns across...

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Vaccine effectiveness of 3rd generation mpox vaccines against mpox and disease severity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Pischel L, Martini B, Yu N, Cacesse D, Tracy M, Kharbanda K, et al.

Vaccine . 2024 Jun; 42(25):126053. PMID: 38906763

Introduction: Before the global mpox outbreak which began in 2022, the real-world vaccine effectiveness (VE) of mpox vaccines was unknown. We quantified the VE in the global population of 3rd...

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Characterizing healthcare personnel attitudes toward receipt of a voluntary bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine during a COVID-19 outbreak at a behavioral health hospital in Connecticut

Roberts S, Willebrand K, Fredrick J, Pischel L, Patel K, Murray T, et al.

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol . 2024 May; 4(1):e87. PMID: 38774120

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in healthcare personnel (HCP) is poor. A cross-sectional survey study of behavioral health HCP was performed. Commonly identified reasons for vaccination were protecting others and oneself. Reasons...

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Lung infections due to emerging fungal pathogens

Machiavello Roman F, Pischel L, Azar M

Curr Opin Pulm Med . 2024 Feb; 30(3):258-265. PMID: 38411158

Purpose Of Review: This review highlights the epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical management of pulmonary infections caused by emerging fungal organisms. Recent Findings: Emerging fungal infections have arisen as a result...

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Comprehensive profiling of social mixing patterns in resource poor countries: a mixed methods research protocol

Aguolu O, Kiti M, Nelson K, Liu C, Sundaram M, Gramacho S, et al.

medRxiv . 2023 Dec; PMID: 38105989

Background: Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionate burden of communicable diseases. Social interaction data inform infectious disease models and disease prevention strategies. The variations in demographics and contact patterns across...

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Serum Neutralizing Antibody Titers 12 Months After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Messenger RNA Vaccination: Correlation to Clinical Variables in an Adult, US Population

Zhao M, Slotkin R, Sheth A, Pischel L, Kyriakides T, Emu B, et al.

Clin Infect Dis . 2022 May; 76(3):e391-e399. PMID: 35639598

Background: We studied whether comorbid conditions affect strength and duration of immune responses after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) messenger RNA vaccination in a US-based, adult population. Methods:...

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Clinical Variables Correlate with Serum Neutralizing Antibody Titers after COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in an Adult, US-based Population

Zhao M, Slotkin R, Sheth A, Pischel L, Kyriakides T, Emu B, et al.

medRxiv . 2022 Apr; PMID: 35411347

Background: We studied whether comorbid conditions impact strength and duration of immune responses after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in a US-based, adult population. Methods: Sera (pre-and-post-BNT162b2 vaccination) were tested serially up...

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Rainfall and other meteorological factors as drivers of urban transmission of leptospirosis

Cunha M, Costa F, Ribeiro G, Carvalho M, Reis R, Nery Jr N, et al.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2022 Apr; 16(4):e0007507. PMID: 35404948

Background: Leptospirosis is an important public health problem affecting vulnerable urban slum populations in developing country settings. However, the complex interaction of meteorological factors driving the temporal trends of leptospirosis...

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Cost-effectiveness of second-line therapies in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia

Goshua G, Sinha P, Kunst N, Pischel L, Lee A, Cuker A

Am J Hematol . 2022 Feb; 98(1):122-130. PMID: 35147241

Major options for second-line therapy in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) include splenectomy, rituximab, and thrombopoietin receptor agonists (TRAs). The American Society of Hematology guidelines recommend rituximab over splenectomy,...