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2025
Van Wyk H., Brouwer A.F., Lee G.O., Márquez S., Andrade P., Ionides E.L., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (In Press) Early detection of dengue outbreaks: transmission model analysis of a dengue outbreak in a remote setting in Ecuador. Epidemiology
Familiar I, Lalonde H, Harris A, Foot E, Espinosa M.S.C, Turgut N., Levy K, Eisenberg J.N.S., Lee G.O. (In Press) Field Usability and Validity of Eye-tracking Instrumentation with the Early Childhood Vigilance Test Among Children Aged 2-4 years-old in Northern Coastal Ecuador, Neuropsychology.
Guilcazo D., Salinas L., Chavez C., Vasquez K., Mendez G.I., Price L.B., Graham J.P., Eisenberg J.N.S., Trueba G. (2025) Tracking blaCTX-M Transmission Through Transposable Elements in Uropathogenic and Commensal E. coli. Future Microbiology. doi.org/10.1080/17460913.2025.2459526
2020-2024
Jesser K.J., Zhou N.A, Hemlock C., Miller-Petrie M.K., Contreras J.D., Ballard A., Sosa-Moreno A., Calvopiña M., Arnold B.F., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Lee G.O., Eisenberg J.N.S., Levy K. (2024) Environmental Exposures Associated with Enteropathogen Infection in Six-Month-Old Children Enrolled in the ECoMiD Cohort along a Rural−Urban Gradient in Northern Ecuador. Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c0775
Trostle J.A., Robbins C., Corozo B.A., Acevedo A., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2024) Dengue fever is not just urban or rural: reframing its spatial categorization. Social Science and Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117384
Ballard A.M., Haardörfer R., Corozo B.A., Freeman M.C., Eisenberg J.N.S., Lee G.O., Levy K., Caruso B.A. (2024) The development and validation of a survey to measure fecal- oral child exposure to zoonotic enteropathogens: The FECEZ Enteropathogens Index. PLoS Global Health. 4(9): e0002690. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002690.
Ballard A.M., Corozo B.A., Laramee N., Gallagher J.P., Haardörfer R., Freeman M.C., Trostle J., Eisenberg J.N.S., Lee G.O., Levy K., Caruso B.A. (2024) Multilevel factors drive child exposure to enteric pathogens in animal feces: A qualitative study in northwestern coastal Ecuador. PLoS Global Health. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003604.
Calvopina M., Aguilar-Rodriguez D., DeGroot A., Cevallos W., Lee G.O., Lopez A., Nutman T.B., Levy K., Eisenberg J.N.S., Sears W., Cooper P.J. (2024) Anthroponotic and Zoonotic Hookworm DNA in an Indigenous Community in Coastal Ecuador: Potential Cross-transmission Between Dogs and Humans. Pathogens. DOI: 10.3390/pathogens13080609
Calvopina M.D., Contreras J., Cevallos W., Lee G.O., Levy K., Eisenberg J.N.S., (2024) Diversity and Prevalence of Helminths and Protozoa Among Pregnant Women in Tropical Ecuador: Implications for Chemotherapy. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.24-0164.
Andrade P., Sosa A., Vivero S., Nipaz V., Lee G.O., Eisenberg J.N.S, Coloma J. (2024) The Impact of Zika emergence in remote communities in northwestern Ecuador. Journal of Infectious Disease. doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiae384.
Katzelnick L., Quentin E., Colston S., Ha T.A., Andrades P., Eisenberg J.N.S., Ponce P., Coloma J., Cevallos V. (2024) Increasing transmission of dengue virus across ecologically diverse regions of Ecuador and associated risk factors. PLoS NTD 18(1):e0011408. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011408
Ghahyazi K., Familiar-Lopez I., Van Engen A., Cevallos W., Vasco G., Uruchima J., Eisenberg J.N.S, Levy K., Lee G.O. (2024) Correlates of Maternal Depression, Anxiety and Functioning across an Urban-Rural Gradient in Northern Ecuador. Global Public Health. 19(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2291697.
Lee G.O., Cevallos W., Uruchima J., Andrade P., Van Engen A., Pallares M., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S., Coloma J. (2024) Pandemic-associated food insecurity in northern, coastal Ecuador. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2023.2301074
Valenzuela X., Hedman H., Villagomez A., Cardenas P., Eisenberg J.N.S, Levy K., Zhang L., Trueba G. (2023) Distribution of blaCTX-M-gene variants in E. coli from different origins in Ecuador. Medicine in Microecology 18 (2023) 100092.
Zahid, M.H., Van Wyk H., Morrison A.C., Coloma J., Lee G.O., Cevallos V., Ponce P., Eisenberg J.N.S (2023) The biting rate of Aedes aegypti and its variability: A systematic review (1970 - 2022). PLoS NTD. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010831
Man O., Kraay A., Thomas R., Trostle J., Lee G.O., Robbins C., Morrison A.C., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2023) Characterizing dengue transmission in rural areas: a systematicreview. PLoS NTD. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011333
Márquez S., Lee G.O., Gutiérrez B., Bennett S., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S., Trueba G. (2023) Phylogenetic Analysis of Transmission Dynamics of Dengue in Large and Small Population Centers, Northern Ecuador. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol: 29(5) :888-897.
Glover B., Lee G.O., Suing O., An Ha T., Thongsripong P., Cevallos V.E., Ponce P., Morrison A.C., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2023) Validity of self-reported mosquito bites to assess household mosquito abundance in six communities of Esmeraldas province, Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Diseases.
Márquez S., Lee G.O., Zuinga J., Andrade P., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S, Coloma J. (2022) Chikungunya outbreak in a dengue endemic region in rural northern coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.22-0296
Hedge S, Trostle J.A., Mukherjee B., Eisenberg J.N.S* (2022) The importance of community during rapid development: The influence of social networks on acute gastrointestinal illness in rural Ecuador. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health. Jun 29;19:101159. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101159.
Sosa-Moreno A., Lee G., Van Engen A., Sun K., Uruchima J., Kwong L., Ludwig-Borycz E., Caruso, B., Cevallos W., Levy K., Eisenberg J.N.S (2022) Characterizing exposure to enteric pathogens among infants in rural Ecuador through structured observations. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-1099
Lee G.O., Vasco L., Márquez S., Moya J.G.Z., Van Engen A., Uruchima J., Ponce P., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Trostle J., Berrocal V.J., Morrison A., Cevallos V., Mena C., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2021) A dengue outbreak in a rural community in northern coastal Ecuador: an analysis using unmanned aerial vehicle mapping. PLoS Neglected Diseases. September, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009679.
Hedman H.D., Zhang L., Butt B., Papias P., Trostle J.A., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2021) “Chicken dumping”: Motivations and perceptions in shifting poultry production practices. One Health December Vol 13 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100296.
Lee GO., Eisenberg JNS., Uruchima J., Vasco G., Smith SM., Van Engen A., Victor C., Reynolds E. , MacKay R., Jesser KJ., Castro N., Calvopiña M., Konstantinidis KT., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Levy K. (2021) Gut microbiome, enteric infections and child growth across a rural–urban gradient: protocol for the ECoMiD prospective cohort study. BMJ Open 11(10): e046241.
Soto-Giron, M.*, Peña Gonzalez, A.*, J. K. Hatt, L. Montero*, M. Páez*, E. Ortega*, S. Smith**, W. Cevallos, G. Trueba, K. Konstantinidis‡, K. Levy‡. (2021) Gut microbiome response to acute diarrheal disease across a rural-to-urban gradient in northern Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Lee GO., Vasco L., Márquez S., Zuniga-Moya JC., Van Engen A., Uruchima J., Ponce P., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Trostle J., Berrocal V., Morrison A., Cevallos V., Mena C., Coloma J., Eisenberg JNS. (2021) A dengue outbreak in a rural community in Northern Coastal Ecuador: An analysis using unmanned aerial vehicle mapping. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15(9): e0009679. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009679
Meziti, A.*, L. Rodriguez-R, J. Hatt, A. Peña-Gonzalez*, K. Levy, K. Konstantinidis. (2021) How reliably do metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) represent natural populations? Insights from comparing MAGs against isolate genomes derived from the same fecal sample. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Hedman HD., Zhang L., Butt B., Papias P., Trostle JA., Eisenberg JNS. (2021) “Chicken dumping”: Motivations and perceptions in shifting poultry production practices. One Health 13(December 2021): 100296.
Uruchima J., Lee GO., Jones A., Morillo NC., Ortega AA., Levy K., Eisenberg JNS. (2021) Risk Factors for Infant Feeding Practices Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Coastal Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. Current Developments in Nutrition 5(2): 824. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab046_121
Deshpande, A**, H.H. Chang, K. Levy.‡ (2020) Heavy Rainfall Events and Diarrheal Diseases: The Role of Urban-Rural Geography. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 103(3): 1043-1049.
Salinas, V.*, T. Bustamante, W. Cevallos, K. Levy. (2020) Afrodescendientes e indígenas vulnerables al cambio climático: desacuerdos frente a medidas preventivas estatales ecuatorianas. Íconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales No.66, Vol. XXIV, 107-129.
Lee GO., Gutierrez C., Morillo NC., Cevallos W., Jones AD., Eisenberg JNS. (2020) Multiple burdens of malnutrition and relative remoteness in rural Ecuadorian communities. Public Health Nutrition, 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020004462[Opens in a new window]
Kraay ANM., Ionides EL., Lee GO., Cevallos Trujillo WF., Eisenberg JNS.(2020) Effect of childhood rotavirus vaccination on community rotavirus prevalence in rural Ecuador, 2008-13. International Journal of Epidemiology 49(5): 1691-1701.
Lee GO., Whitney HJ., Blum AG., Lybik N., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Levy K., Eisenberg JNS. (2020) Household coping strategies associated with unreliable water supplies and diarrhea in Ecuador, an upper-middle-income country. Water Research 170(1):115269.
Hedman HD., Zhang L., Trueba G., Vinueza Rivera DL., Zurita Herrera RA., Villacis Barrazueta JJ., Gavilanes Rodriguez GI., Butt B., Foufopoulos J., Berrocal VJ., Eisenberg JNS. (2020) Spatial exposure of agricultural antimicrobial resistance in relation to free-ranging domestic chicken movement patterns among agricultural communities in Ecuador. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 103(5): 1803-1809.
Lee G.O., Gutierrez H., Castro N.M., Cevallos W., Jones A., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2020) Association between multiple burdens of malnutrition and relative remoteness in rural Ecuadorian communities. Public Health Nutrition. 10.1017/S1368980020004462
Gutierrez H., Lee G., Corozo B., Dimka J., Eisenberg J.N.S., Trostle J., Hardin R. (2020) Perceptions of local vulnerability and the relative importance of climate change in rural Ecuador. Human Ecology: v.48 no.4 pp. 383-395.
Lee G.O., Whitney H.J., Blum A.G., Lybik N., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Levy K., Eisenberg J.N.S (2020) Household coping strategies associated with unreliable water supplies and diarrhea in Ecuador, an upper-middle-income country. Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115269. PMC6962559
2015-2019
Hedman HD., Eisenberg JNS., Trueba G., Vinueza Rivera DL., Zurita Herrera RA., Villacis Barrazueta J., Gavilanes Rodriguez GI., Krawczyk E., Berrocal VJ., Zhang L. (2019) Impacts of small-scale chicken farming activity on anti-microbial resistant Escherichia coli carriage in backyard chickens and children in rural Ecuador. One Health 8:100112.
Hedman HD., Eisenberg JNS., Vasco KA., Blair CN., Trueba G., Berrocal VJ., Zhang L. (2019) High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-producing Escherichia coli in small-scale poultry farming in rural Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 100(2): 374-376.
Peña Gonzalez, A.*, M. Soto-Giron*, S. Smith**, J. Sistrunk**, L. Montero*, M. Páez*, E. Ortega*, J. Hatt, W. Cevallos, G. Trueba, K. Levy‡, and K. Konstantinidis‡. (2019) Metagenomic signatures of gut infection caused by different Escherichia coli pathotypes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85(24): e01820-19.
Smith, S.M.**, L. Montero*, M. Paez*, E. Ortega*, E. Hall**, K. Bohnert**, X. Sanchez*, E. Puebla*, P. Endara, W. Cevallos, G. Trueba, K. Levy.‡ (2019) Locals Get Travelers' Diarrhea Too: Risk factors for diarrheal illness and pathogenic E. coli infection across an urban-rural gradient in Ecuador. Tropical Medicine & International Health 24(2): 205-219.
Cherng ST., Cangemi I., Trostle JA., Remais JV., Eisenberg JNS. (2019) Social cohesion and passive adaptation in relation to climate change and disease. Global Environmental Change 58(2019): 101960.
Collender PA., Morris C., Glenn-Finer R., Acevedo A., Chang HH., Trostle J., Eisenberg JNS., Remais J. (2019) Mass gatherings and diarrheal disease transmission among rural communities in coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Epidemiology 188(8): 1475-1483.
Lopez VK., Berrocal VJ., Corozo Angula B., Ram PK., Trostle J., Eisenberg JNS. (2019) Determinants of latrine use behavior: The psychosocial proxies of individual-level defecation practices in rural coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 100(3): 733-741.
Levy M., Collender PA., Carlton EJ., Chang HH., Strickland MJ., Eisenberg JNS., Remais JV. (2019) Spatiotemporal error in rainfall data: Consequences for epidemiological analysis of waterborne diseases. American Journal of Epidemiology 188(5): 950-959.
Hedman H.D., Eisenberg J.N.S.*, Vasco K.A., Blair C.N., Trueba G., Zhang L (2019) High Prevalence of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase CTX-M-Producing Escherichia coli in Small-Scale Poultry Farming in Rural Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene doi: 10.4269/ajtmh. 18-0173. 100(2): 374-76.
Lopez V.K., West B.T, Clarke P.J., Quentin E., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2019) Latent variable modeling to develop a robust proxy for sensitive behaviors: application to latrine use behavior and it association with sanitation access in a middle-income country. BMC Public Health doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6373-x
Guo X., Stedtfeld RD., Hedman H., Eisenberg JNS., Trueba G., Yin D., Tiedje JM., Zhang L. (2018) Antibiotic resistome associated with small-scale poultry production in rural Ecuador. Environmental Science & Technology 52(15): 8165-8172.
Lopez V.K., Berrocal V.J., Corozo B., Ram P.K., Trostle J., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2019) Determinants of Latrine Use Behavior: The Psychosocial Proxies of Individual-level Defecation Practices in Rural Coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Mullis-Kraay A.N., Brouwer A. F., Lin N., Collender, , P.A., Remais J. V., Eisenberg J.N.S* (2018), Modeling environmentally-mediated rotavirus transmission: the role of temperature and hydrologic factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(12):E2782-E2790. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719579115. PMC5866583
Lopez V., Dombecki C., Trostle J., Mongrovejo P., Castro Morillo N., Cevallos W, Goldstick J., Jones A.D, Eisenberg J.N.S* (2018) Nutritional Trends in Communities with Differential Access to Roads: An Emerging Double Burden of Child Malnutrition in rural Ecuador, 2004-2013. Child and Maternal Nutrition DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12588.
Mullis-Kraay A.N., Brower A.F., Trostle J.A., Cevallos W., Eisenberg J.N.S* (2018) Determinants of short-term movement in a developing region and implications for disease transmission. Epidemiology. 29(1):117–125. PMC5718955
Moser KA., Zhang L., Spicknall I., Braykov NP., Levy K., Marrs CF., Foxman B., Trueba G., Cevallos W., Goldstick J., Trostle J., Eisenberg JNS. (2018) The role of mobile genetic elements in the spread of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli from chickens to humans in small-scale production poultry operations in rural Ecuador. American Journal of Epidemiology 187(3): 558-567.
Kraay ANM., Trostle J., Brouwer AF., Trujillo WC., Eisenberg JNS. (2018). Determinants of short-term movement in a developing region and implications for disease transmission. Epidemiology, 29(1): 117-125.
Lopez VK., Dombecki C., Trostle J., Mogrevejo P., Castro Morillo NC., Cevallos W., Goldstick J., Jones AD., Eisenberg JNS. (2018) Trends of child undernutrition in rural Ecuadorian communities with differential access to roads, 2004-2013. Maternal and Child Nutrition 14(3): e12588.
Márquez S., Carrera J., Pullan S., Lewandowski K., Paz V., Endara P., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S., Powell R., Loman N., Carroll M., Trueba G., Logue C.H. (2017) First Complete Genome Sequences of Zika Virus Isolated from Febrile Patient Sera in Ecuador. Genome Announcements, Vol 5(8):e01673-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01673-16.
Fuller J.A., Eisenberg J.N.S* (2016) Herd protection from drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 15-0677, 95(5), pp. 1201–1210 (doi:10.4269/ajtmh).
Armas-Freire PI., Trueba G., Proaño-Bolaños C., Levy K., Zhang L., Marrs CF., Cevallos W., Eisenberg JNS. (2016) Unexpected distribution of qnrB gene in E. coli isolates from different origins in Ecuador. International Microbiology 18(2): 85-90.
Fuller JA., Villamor E., Cevallos W., Trostle J., Eisenberg JNS. (2016) I get height with a little help from my friends: herd protection from sanitation on child growth in rural Ecuador. International Journal of Epidemiology 45(2): 460-469.
Bhavnani D., de Los Angeles Bayas R., Lopez VK., Zhang L., Trueba G., Foxman B., Marrs C., Cevallos W., Eisenberg JNS. (2016) Distribution of Enteroinvasive and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli across space and time in northwestern Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 94(2): 276-284.
Braykov NP., Eisenberg JNS., Grossman M., Zhang L., Vasco K., Cevallos W., Muñoz D., Acevedo A., Moser KA., Marrs CF., Foxman B., Trostle J., Trueba G., Levy K. (2016) Environmental samples associated with small-scale poultry farming in northwestern Ecuador. mSphere 1(1); e00021-15.
Armas-Freire P.I., Trueba G., Proaño-Bolaños C., Levy K., Zhang L., Marrs C.F., Cevallos W, Eisenberg J.N.S. (2015) Unexpected distribution of qnrB gene in E. coli from different origins in Ecuador. International Microbiology June,18(2):85-90. (PMCID: PMC4809633).
Zhang L., Levy K., Trueba G., Cevallos W., Trostle J., Foxman B., Marrs C., Eisenberg JNS. (2015) Effects of selection pressure and genetic association on the relationship between antibiotic resistance and virulence in Escherichia coli. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 59(11): 6733-6740.
Chiriboga J., Barragan V., Arroyo G., Sosa A., Birdsell D.N., España K., Mora A., Espín E., Mejía M.E., Morales M., Pinargote C., Gonzalez M., Hartskeerl R., Keim P., Bretas G., Eisenberg J.N.S., Trueba G. (2015) High Prevalence of Intermediate Leptospira DNA in Febrile Humans From Urban and Rural Ecuador. Emerging Infectious Disease 21(12) 2141-2147. (PMCID: PMC4672404).
Rao G., Eisenberg JNS., Kleinbaum DG., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Levy K. (2015). Spatial variability of Escherichia coli in rivers of northern coastal Ecuador. Water 7(2): 818-832.
2010-2014
Bhavnani D., Goldstick J.E., Cevallos W., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2014) Identifying diarrheal disease vulnerability to local climate variation in northwestern Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Apr;90(4):705-11 (PMC3973516).
Vasco G., Trueba G., Atherton R., Calvopiña M., Cevallos W., Andrade T., Eguiguren M., Eisenberg JNS. (2014) Identifying etiological agents causing diarrhea in low income Ecuadorian communities. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 91(3): 563-569.
Ahn J., Johnson TD., Bhavnani D., Eisenberg JNS, Mukherjee B. (2014). A space-time point process model for analyzing and predicting case patterns of diarrheal disease in northwestern Ecuador. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 9:23-35.
Bhavnani D., Goldstick J.E., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2014) Impact of rainfall on diarrheal disease risk associated with unimproved water and sanitation. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 90(4): 705-11.
Goldstick J., Trostle J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2014) Ask when - not just whether - it's a risk: How regional context influences local causes of diarrheal disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 179(10): 1247-54.
Levy K., Anderson L., Robb K.A., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S (2014) Household effectiveness vs. laboratory efficacy of point-of-use chlorination. Water Research 54:69-77
Carlton, E., J.N.S. Eisenberg, J. Goldstick, W. Cevallos, J. Trostle, K. Levy. (2014) Heavy Rainfall Events and Diarrhea Incidence: The Role of Social and Environmental Factors. American Journal of Epidemiology, 179(3):344-52.
Atherton R.D., Bhavnani D., Calvopiña M., Vicuña Y., Cevallos W., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2013) Molecular identification of Giardia duodenalis in Ecuador by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 108(4): 512-515.
Schafrick N.H., Milbrath M.O., Wilson M.L., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2013) Spatial Clustering of Aedes aegypti Related to Breeding Container Characteristics in Coastal Ecuador: Implications for Dengue Control. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 89(4):758-765
Cifuentes S., Trostle J., Milbrath M., Trueba G., Baldeon M., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2013) An etiologic transition for fevers: dengue reemergence in rural northwestern Ecuador. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(10):1642-45 (PMC3810737).
Cifuentes S., Trostle J., Milbrath M., Trueba G., Baldeon M., Coloma J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2013) Transition in the cause of dengue fever from malaria to dengue, northwestern Ecuador, 1990-2011. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(10):1642-45.
Atherton R.D., Bhavnani D., Calvopiña M., Vicuña Y., Cevallos W., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2013) Molecular identification of Giardia duodenalis in Ecuador by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 108(4): 512-515 (PMC3970629).
Spicknall I.H., Foxman B, Marrs C., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2013) A modeling framework for the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance: A literature review and model categorization. American Journal of Epidemiology, 178(4): 508-520.
Enger K.S; Nelson K.L., Rose J.B., Eisenberg, J.N.S (2012)The joint effects of efficacy and compliance: a study of household water treatment effectiveness. Water Research. 47(3): 957-1502.
Enger K., Nelson K., Clasan T., Rose J.B., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) Linking Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Epidemiological Data: Informing Safe Drinking Water Trials in Developing Countries. Environmental Science and Technology. doi: 10.1021/es204381e (PMID: 22486606)
Zelner J., Trostle J., Goldstick J.E., Cevallos W., House J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) Social connectedness and disease transmission: social organization, cohesion, village context and infection risk in rural Ecuador. American Journal of Public Health 102(12):2233-9. (PMCID: PMC3519324)
Escobar J.C., Bhavnani D., Trueba G., Cevallos W., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) Risk of diarrhea associated with Plesiomonas shigelloides infection in remote communities in northwestern Ecuador. Emerging Infectious Disease. 18(2):322-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1802.110562 (PMCID: PMC3310445)
Bhavnani D., Hoggatt K., Goldstick J.E., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) Assessing mechanistic interaction between coinfecting pathogens - Response to Commentary. American Journal of Epidemiology 176(5):400-1 doi: 10.1093/aje/kws217 (PMCID: PMC3499115)
Bhavnani D., Goldstick J.E., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) Synergistic effects between rotavirus and coinfecting pathogens on diarrheal disease: evidence from a community-based study in northwestern Ecuador. American Journal of Epidemiology, 176(5):387-95 doi: 10.1093/aje/KWS220 (PMCID: PMC3499114)
Levy, K., K. Nelson, A. Hubbard, J.N.S. Eisenberg. (2012)Rethinking indicators of microbial drinking water quality for health studies in tropical developing countries: Case study in northern coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 86(3): 499�507.
Markovitz, A.R., J.E. Goldstick, K. Levy, W. Cevallos, B. Mukherjee, J.A. Trostle, J.N.S. Eisenberg. (2012) Where science meets policy: Comparing longitudinal and cross-sectional designs to address diarrheal disease burden in the developing world.
International Journal of Epidemiology; doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr194.
Calvopina M., Cevallos W., Kumazawa H., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2012) High Prevalence of an Emerging Human Liver Infection by Amphimerus spp in Ecuador, South America. 17(12): DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110373 Emerging Infectious Disease.
Eisenberg J.N.S., Shield K., Sorrenson R. Trostle J. (2012) Toward a systems approach to enteric pathogen transmission: From individual-level independent risk to community-level interdependent transmission. Annual Reviews in Public Health. 33:239�57: doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124530.
Eisenberg J.N.S., Goldstick J., Cevallos W., Trueba G., Levy K., Scott J., Percha B., Segovia R., Ponce K., Hubbard A., Foxman B., Smith D.L., Trostle J. (2011) In-Roads to the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance: Regional patterns of microbial transmission in northern coastal Ecuador. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0499, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Interface.
Calvopina M., Cevallos W., Kumazawa H., Eisenberg J.N.S. * (2011) High Prevalence of an Emerging Human Liver Infection by Amphimerus spp in Ecuador, South America. 17(12): DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110373 Emerging Infectious Disease (PMCID: PMC3311191)
Jonathan Zelner. (2010). Roads, roadlessness, and Rotovirus in southern coastal Ecuador. [sic] (pdf) State & Hill, The Magazine of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Fall 2010, pp 18-19.
James Trostle, Jeanneth Yépez, Betty Corozo, Marylin Rodriguez. (2010). Males diarreicos en la costa Ecuatoriana: Pasos a una epidemiología cultural. (Diarrheal illnesses on the Ecuadorian coast: steps toward a cultural epidemiology.) (pdf) Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 26(7):1334-1344, July, 2010
2005-2009
Hasing M.E., Trueba G., Baquero M.I., Ponce K., Cevallos W., Solberg O.D., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2009) Rapid Changes In Rotaviral Genotypes In Ecuador. (pdf) Journal of Medical Virology, 2009 December; 81(12): 2109�2113.
Solberg O.D., Hasing M.E., Trueba G., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2009). Characterization of novel VP7, VP4, and VP6 genotypes of a previously untypeable group A rotavirus. Virology 385(1):58-67.
McLaughlin, L., K. Levy, N. K. Beck, J.S. Meschke, J.N.S. Eisenberg. (2009) An Observational Study on the Effectiveness of Point-Of-Use Chlorination. (pdf) Journal of Environmental Health 71(8): 48-53.
Comment in Journal of Environmental Health. (pdf) Journal of Environmental Health 72(6): 74, 78.
Levy, K., A. Hubbard, K. Nelson, J.N.S. Eisenberg. (2009). Drivers of Water Quality Variability in Northern Coastal Ecuador. (pdf) Environmental Science & Technology 43 (6): 1788�1797.
Levy K., Nelson K., Hubbard A., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2008). Following the water: a controlled study of drinking water storage in northern coastal Ecuador. (pdf) Environmental Health Perspectives 116(11): 1533-1540.
Levy, K., Hubbard A., Eisenberg, J.N.S. (2008). Seasonality of rotavirus disease in the tropics: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (pdf) International Journal of Epidemiology 2008: 1-10.
Trostle J., Hubbard A., Scott J., Cevallos W., Bates S.J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2008) Raising the Level of Analysis of Food-Borne Outbreaks: Food-sharing Networks in Rural Coastal Ecuador. (pdf) Epidemiology 19 (3): 384-390.
Eisenberg J.N.S., Scott, J., B. L., Porco T. C. (2007) Integrating disease control strategies: Balancing water sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrheal disease burden. (pdf) American Journal of Public Health, May 2007; 97: 846-852.
Endara P., Trueba G., Solberg O.D., Bates S.J., Ponce K., Cevallos W., Matthijnssens J., Eisenberg J.N.S.* (2007) Emerging rotavirus genotype causing symptomatic and asymptomatic infection in rural Ecuador. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(4) 574-580. (PMCID: PMC2391297)
Endara P., Trueba G., Solberg O.D., Bates S.J., Ponce K., Cevallos W., Matthijnssens J., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2007)
Symptomatic and subclinical infection with rotavirus P[8]G9, rural Ecuador.(pdf) Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(4): 574-580.
Vieira N., Bates S.J., Solberg O.D., Ponce K., Howsmon R., Cevallos, W., Trueba, G., Riley L., Eisenberg, J.N.S. (2007) High prevalence of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli isolated in a remote region of northern coastal Ecuador. (pdf) American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 76(3): 528-533.
Bates S.J., Trostle J., Cevallos W.T., Hubbard A., Eisenberg J.N.S. (2007) Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural Ecuador. (pdf) American Journal of Epidemiology 166(9): 1088-1095.
Eisenberg J.N.S., Desai M.A., Levy K., Bates S.J., Liang S., Naumoff K, Scott J.C. (2007)
Environmental Determinants of Infectious Disease: A Framework for Tracking Causal Links & Guiding Public Health Research. (pdf) Environmental Health Perspectives 115 (8): 1216-1223
Eisenberg J.N.S., Cevallos W., Ponce K., Levy K., Bates S., Scott J., Hubbard A., Viera N., Segovia R., Espinel M., Trueba G., Riley L., Trostle J. (2006) Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador. (pdf) Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 103(51): 19460-19465.
