2026

VIBES: A Multi-Scale Modeling Approach Integrating Within-Host and Between-Hosts Dynamics in Epidemics

Paulo Cesar Ventura, Yong Dam Jeong, Maria Litvinova, Allisandra G Kummer, Shingo Iwami, Hongjie Yu, Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani, Keisuke Ejima, Marco Ajelli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, In press (2026)

Understanding human mobility patterns under a public health emergency

Cheng Peng, Nana Chen, Bo-Wen Ming, Anqi Zhang, Yao Zuo, Paulo C Ventura, Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli, Juanjuan Zhang

Infectious Disease Modelling 11 (1), 241-255 (2026)

2025

China's post-zero-COVID Omicron wave: A Bayesian analysis

Jun Cai, Yanpeng Wu, Hengcong Liu, Zhu Deng, Lan Yi, Liuhe Lai, Anna Funk, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (48), e2514157122 (2025)

Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns for Respiratory Pathogen Spread in the Post-Pandemic United States

Maria Litvinova, Shelly Sinclair, Allisandra G Kummer, Paulo C Ventura, Trevor Foster, Kayoko Shioda, M Elizabeth Halloran, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at medRxiv (2025)

Epydemix: An open-source Python package for epidemic modeling with integrated approximate Bayesian calibration

Nicoló Gozzi, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T Davis, Corrado Gioannini, Luca Rossi, Marco Ajelli, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani

PLOS Computational Biology 21 (11), e1013735 (2025)

Mapping the Landscape of Individual-Based Models for Respiratory Pathogen Transmission in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era (2020-2024): A Systematic Review

Shreeya Mhade, Utkarsh Bhosekar, Megan D Hill, Shelly Sinclair, Snigdha Agrawal, Jessica Guerrini, Luling Zou, Anna Koebcke, Allisandra G Kummer, Paulo C Ventura, Sara Y Del Valle, Matteo Chinazzi, Maria Litvinova, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at SSRN (2025)

Evaluating Field Trial Designs for Genetically Modified Mosquito Interventions: An In-Silico Simulation Approach

Jagadeesh Chitturi, Paulo C Ventura, Allisandra G Kummer, Chalmers Vasquez, Ethan SeRine, Megan D Hill, Mattia Manica, Piero Poletti, John C Beier, Keisuke Ejima, Michael Johansson, Stefano Merler, Hongjie Yu, John-Paul Mutebi, Maria Litvinova, André BB Wilke, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at bioRxiv (2025)

Comparing Wastewater-Based and Case-Based Rt Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Georgia Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models

Seth H Edmunds, Doug Landsittel, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova

Preprint available at medRxiv (2025)

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus populations in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Chalmers Vasquez, Laura C Multini, John-Paul Mutebi, Ethan SeRine, Megan D Hill, Maria Litvinova, Marco Ajelli, André BB Wilke

Preprint available at bioRxiv (2025)

Assessing the effectiveness of test-trace-isolate interventions using a multi-layered temporal network

Yunyi Cai, Weiyi Wang, Lanlan Yu, Ruixiao Wang, Gui-Quan Sun, Allisandra G Kummer, Paulo C Ventura, Jiancheng Lv, Marco Ajelli, Quan-Hui Liu

Infectious Disease Modelling 10 (3), 775-786 (2025)

Evaluating the effectiveness of international travel controls to identify MPXV-infected travelers: a simulation study

Keisuke Ejima, Yuqian Wang, Akira Endo, Hiroaki Murayama, Yun Shan Goh, Alex R Cook, Yong Dam Jeong, Shingo Iwami, Hyeongki Park, Borame Sue Lee Dickens, Shihui Jin, Jue Tao Lim, Conrad En Zuo Chan, Po Ying Chia, Barnaby E Young, Yang Yang, Martin Chio, David Chien Lye, Marco Ajelli

BMC Medicine 23 (1), 473 (2025)

Leveraging mosquito surveillance data to assess ecosystem health

Nicole A Scavo, Chalmers Vasquez, John-Paul Mutebi, Marco Ajelli, André BB Wilke

Trends in Parasitology 41 (6), 424-427 (2025)

Social contact patterns and their impact on the transmission of respiratory pathogens in rural China

Yuxia Liang, Qian You, Qianli Wang, Xiaohong Yang, Guangjie Zhong, Kaige Dong, Zeyao Zhao, Nuolan Liu, Xuemei Yan, Wanying Lu, Cheng Peng, Jiaxin Zhou, Jiqun Lin, Maria Litvinova, Mark Jit, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu, Juanjuan Zhang

Infectious Disease Modelling 10 (2), 439-452 (2025)

Measles Population Immunity in Hunan, China: A Serological Assessment

Yanpeng Wu, Qianli Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaoyu Zhou, Juanjuan Zhang, Sihong Zhao, Yuxia Liang, Pengfei Wang, Filippo Trentini, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Open Forum Infectious Diseases 12 (5), ofaf216 (2025)

Evaluation of the 2022 West Nile virus forecasting challenge, USA

Ryan D Harp, Karen M Holcomb, Renata Retkute, Alisa Prusokiene, Augustinas Prusokas, Zeynep Ertem, Marco Ajelli, Allisandra G Kummer, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Piero Poletti, Alessandro Vespignani, Andre BB Wilke, Agnese Zardini, Kelly Helm Smith, Philip Armstrong, Nicholas DeFelice, Alexander Keyel, John Shepard, Rebecca Smith, Andrew Tyre, John Humphreys, Lee W Cohnstaedt, Saman Hosseini, Caterina Scoglio, Morgan E Gorris, Martha Barnard, S Kane Moser, Julie A Spencer, Maggie SJ McCarter, Christopher Lee, Melissa S Nolan, Christopher M Barker, J Erin Staples, Randall J Nett, Michael A Johansson

Parasites & Vectors 18 (1), 152 (2025)

Vaccination strategies for Ebola in the democratic republic of Congo: the WHO-Ebola modeling collaboration

Marco Ajelli, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Alhassane Touré, Abdourahamane Diallo, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Sabué Mulangu, Aminata Bagayoko, Aissatou Bah, Ibrahima Bah, Aissatou Barry, Fatoumata Barry, Mohamed Chérif, Doussou Condé, Alpha A Diallo, Fatoumata Diallo, Mory Diakité, Kassié Doré, Koundouno A Mapan, Thérèse Koundouno, Patrice K Onivogui, Fassou Lamah, Henry Maneno, Alphonse Nomou, Kourouma Sekouba, Ismaila Sani, Abdoulaye Soumah, Mamadou M Sy, Pierre-Stéphane Gsell, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Mike J Ryan, Peter Salama, Alessandro Vespignani, Ira M Longini Jr

International Journal of Infectious Diseases 153, 107779 (2025)

Age-and vaccination status-dependent isolation guidelines based on simulation of SARS-CoV-2 Delta cases in Singapore

Keisuke Ejima, Marco Ajelli, Ananya Singh, Hoong Kai Chua, Luis Ponce, Yuqian Wang, Yong Dam Jeong, Shingo Iwami, Kenji Shibuya, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Norio Ohmagari, Po Ying Chia, Sean WX Ong, Kelvin Bryan Tan, David Chien Lye, Barnaby E Young

Communications Medicine 5 (1), 76 (2025)

Human migrations, anthropogenic changes, and insect-borne diseases in Latin America

André BB Wilke, Priscilla Farina, Marco Ajelli, Angelo Canale, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Domenico Otranto, Giovanni Benelli

Parasites & Vectors 18 (1), 4 (2025)

A modeling study to define guidelines for antigen screening in schools and workplaces to mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks

Yong Dam Jeong, Keisuke Ejima, Kwang Su Kim, Shoya Iwanami, William S Hart, Robin N Thompson, Il Hyo Jung, Shingo Iwami, Marco Ajelli, Kazuyuki Aihara

Communications Medicine 5 (1), 2 (2025)

Defining the Critical Requisites for Accurate Simulation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Dynamics: Patient Characteristics and Data Collection Protocol

Hoong Kai Chua, Ananya Singh, Yuqian Wang, Yun Shan Goh, Conrad En Zuo Chan, Jean-Marc Chavatte, Raymond Valentine Tzer Pin Lin, Yvonne CF Su, Marco Ajelli, Po Ying Chia, Sean WX Ong, David Chien Lye, Barnaby E Young, Keisuke Ejima

Journal of Medical Virology 97 (1), e70174 (2025)

2024

Post-pandemic social contacts in Italy: implications for social distancing measures on in-person school and work attendance

Lorenzo Lucchini, Valentina Marziano, Filippo Trentini, Chiara Chiavenna, Elena D'Agnese, Vittoria Offeddu, Mattia Manica, Piero Poletti, Duilio Balsamo, Giorgio Guzzetta, Marco Ajelli, Alessia Melegaro, Stefano Merler

Preprint available at arXiv (2024)

Real-time estimates of the emergence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: A modeling approach

Nicolò Gozzi, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra

Epidemics 49, 100805 (2024)

Presence and abundance of malaria vector species in Miami-Dade County, Florida

André BB Wilke, Chalmers Vasquez, Johana Medina, Isik Unlu, John C Beier, Marco Ajelli

Malaria Journal 23, 24 (2024)

Forecasting the relative abundance of Aedes vector populations to enhance situational awareness for mosquito control operations

Paulo C Ventura, Allisandra G Kummer, André BB Wilke, Jagadeesh Chitturi, Megan D Hill, Chalmers Vasquez, Isik Unlu, John-Paul Mutebi, Susanne Kluh, Steve Vetrone, Dan Damian, John Townsend, Maria Litvinova, Marco Ajelli

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(11), e0012671 (2024)

Mosquito‐Borne Disease among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: A Literature Review

Andre Wilke, Megan Hill, Allisandra Kummer, Chalmers Vasquez, John-Paul Mutebi, Xi Huo, Han Li, Jing Chen, Shigui Ruan, John Beier, Maria Litvinova, Thomas Byrne, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at Preprints (2024)

Increasing situational awareness through nowcasting of the reproduction number

Andrea Bizzotto, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Martina Del Manso, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Daniele Petrone, Andrea Cannone, Chiara Sacco, Piero Poletti, Mattia Manica, Agnese Zardini, Filippo Trentini, Massimo Fabiani, Antonino Bella, Flavia Riccardo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Frontiers in Public Health 12, 1430920 (2024)

A multiscale modeling framework for Scenario Modeling: Characterizing the heterogeneity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the US

Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T Davis, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Kunpeng Mu, Nicolò Gozzi, Marco Ajelli, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani

Epidemics 47, 100757 (2024)

Assessing the impact of interventions on the major Omicron BA.2 outbreak in spring 2022 in Shanghai

Hengcong Liu, Jun Cai, Jiaxin Zhou, Xiangyanyu Xu, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Infectious Disease Modelling 9(2), 519-526 (2024)

Comparing the effectiveness of adulticide application interventions on mitigating local transmission of dengue virus

Allisandra G Kummer, André BB Wilke, Paulo C Ventura, Chalmers Vasquez, Johana Medina, Isik Unlu, Yaziri Gonzalez, Adquate Mhlanga, Giovanni Benelli, Keisuke Ejima, John-Paul Mutebi, Marco Ajelli

Journal of Pest Science 98, 463-475 (2024)

Evaluating Seasonal Variations in Human Contact Patterns and Their Impact on the Transmission of Respiratory Infectious Diseases

Allisandra G Kummer, Juanjuan Zhang, Chenyan Jiang, Maria Litvinova, Paulo C Ventura, Marc A Garcia, Alessandro Vespignani, Huanyu Wu, Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 18(5), e13301 (2024)

Spatial spread of COVID-19 during the early pandemic phase in Italy

Valeria d’Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Mattia Manica, Giorgio Guzzetta, Marco Ajelli, Daniele Petrone, Martina Del Manso, Chiara Sacco, Xanthi Andrianou, Antonino Bella, Flavia Riccardo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler

BMC Infectious Diseases 24, 450 (2024)

The decline of the 2022 Italian mpox epidemic: Role of behavior changes and control strategies

Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Alessia Mammone, Andrea Siddu, Federica Ferraro, Anna Caraglia, Francesco Maraglino, Giovanni Rezza, Alessandro Vespignani, Ira Longini, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Nature Communications 15, 2283 (2024)

Counterfactual analysis of the 2023 Omicron XBB wave in China

Hengcong Liu, Xiangyanyu Xu, Xiaowei Deng, Zexin Hu, Ruijia Sun, Junyi Zou, Jiayi Dong, Qianhui Wu, Xinhua Chen, Lan Yi, Jun Cai, Juanjuan Zhang, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Infectious Disease Modelling 9(1), 195-203 (2024)

The unequal effects of the health-economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marco Pangallo, Alberto Aleta, R Maria del Rio-Chanona, Anton Pichler, David Martín-Corral, Matteo Chinazzi, François Lafond, Marco Ajelli, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno, Alessandro Vespignani, J Doyne Farmer

Nature Human Behaviour 8, 264-275 (2024)

Evaluation of FluSight influenza forecasting in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons with a new target laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations

Sarabeth M Mathis, Alexander E Webber, Tomás M León, Erin L Murray, Monica Sun, Lauren A White, Logan C Brooks, Alden Green, Addison J Hu, Roni Rosenfeld, Dmitry Shemetov, Ryan J Tibshirani, Daniel J McDonald, Sasikiran Kandula, Sen Pei, Rami Yaari, Teresa K Yamana, Jeffrey Shaman, Pulak Agarwal, Srikar Balusu, Gautham Gururajan, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, B Aditya Prakash, Rishi Raman, Zhiyuan Zhao, Alexander Rodríguez, Akilan Meiyappan, Shalina Omar, Prasith Baccam, Heidi L Gurung, Brad T Suchoski, Steve A Stage, Marco Ajelli, Allisandra G Kummer, Maria Litvinova, Paulo C Ventura, Spencer Wadsworth, Jarad Niemi, Erica Carcelen, Alison L Hill, Sara L Loo, Clifton D McKee, Koji Sato, Claire Smith, Shaun Truelove, Sung-mok Jung, Joseph C Lemaitre, Justin Lessler, Thomas McAndrew, Wenxuan Ye, Nikos Bosse, William S Hlavacek, Yen Ting Lin, Abhishek Mallela, Graham C Gibson, Ye Chen, Shelby M Lamm, Jaechoul Lee, Richard G Posner

Nature Communications 15, 6289 (2024)

Unveiling the role of mosquito and human diel activity patterns in the risk of mosquito-borne disease infection

Paulo C. Ventura, Andre B.B. Wilke, Jagadeesh Chitturi, Allisandra G. Kummer, Snigdha Agrawal, Chalmers Vasquez, Yaziri Gonzalez, Maria Litvinova, John-Paul Mutebi, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at medRxiv (2024)

Estimating the potential risk of transmission of arboviruses in the Americas and Europe: a modelling study

Agnese Zardini, Francesco Menegale, Andrea Gobbi, Mattia Manica, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valeria d'Andrea, Valentina Marziano, Filippo Trentini, Fabrizio Montarsi, Beniamino Caputo, Angelo Solimini, Cecilia Marques-Toledo, André B B Wilke, Roberto Rosà, Giovanni Marini, Daniele Arnoldi, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Andrea Pugliese, Gioia Capelli, Alessandra della Torre, Mauro M Teixeira, John C Beier, Annapaola Rizzoli, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler, Piero Poletti

The Lancet Planetary Health 8(1), E30-E40 (2024)

2023

Heterogeneous changes in mobility in response to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 outbreak in Shanghai

Juanjuan Zhang, Suoyi Tan, Cheng Peng, Xiangyanyu Xu, Mengning Wang, Wanying Lu, Yanpeng Wu, Bin Sai, Mengsi Cai, Allisandra G Kummer, Zhiyuan Chen, Junyi Zou, Wenxin Li, Wen Zheng, Yuxia Liang, Yuchen Zhao, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Xin Lu, Hongjie Yu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(42), e2306710120 (2023)

Assessing changes in incubation period, serial interval, and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xiangyanyu Xu, Yanpeng Wu, Allisandra G Kummer, Yuchen Zhao, Zexin Hu, Yan Wang, Hengcong Liu, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

BMC Medicine 21, 374 (2023)

Unintended effects of urban policies on the risk of arbovirus transmission

André BB Wilke, Ni-Bin Chang, John Townsend, Giovanni Benelli, Marco Ajelli

Trends in Parasitology 39(12), 1001-1003 (2023)

Evaluating the impact of test-trace-isolate for COVID-19 management and alternative strategies

Kun Zhang, Zhichu Xia, Shudong Huang, Gui-Quan Sun, Jiancheng Lv, Marco Ajelli, Keisuke Ejima, Quan-Hui Liu

PLoS Computational Biology 19(9), e1011423 (2023)

Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infections and associated changes in COVID-19 severity and fatality

Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Francesco Menegale, Chiara Sacco, Daniele Petrone, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Martina Del Manso, Antonino Bella, Massimo Fabiani, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Flavia Riccardo, Piero Poletti, Mattia Manica, Agnese Zardini, Valeria d'Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Paola Stefanelli, Giovanni Rezza, Anna Teresa Palamara, Silvio Brusaferro, Marco Ajelli, Patrizio Pezzotti, Stefano Merler

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 17(8), e13181 (2023)

Evaluating the effect of targeted strategies as control tools for hypervirulent meningococcal C outbreaks: a case study from Tuscany, Italy, 2015 to 2016

Giorgio Guzzetta, Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Miglietta, Cecilia Fazio, Arianna Neri, Stefano Merler, Giovanni Rezza, Paola Stefanelli

Eurosurveillance 28(19), 2200650 (2023)

Evaluation of Waning of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine–Induced Immunity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Francesco Menegale, Mattia Manica, Agnese Zardini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Valeria d'Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler

JAMA Network Open 6(5), e2310650 (2023)

Priority age targets for COVID-19 vaccination in Ethiopia under limited vaccine supply

Margherita Galli, Agnese Zardini, Worku Nigussa Gamshie, Stefano Santini, Ademe Tsegaye, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Mattia Manica, Valeria d’Andrea, Giovanni Putoto, Fabio Manenti, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler

Scientific Reports 13, 5586 (2023)

Long-term measles antibody profiles following different vaccine schedules in China, a longitudinal study

Qianli Wang, Wei Wang, Amy K Winter, Zhifei Zhan, Marco Ajelli, Filippo Trentini, Lili Wang, Fangcai Li, Juan Yang, Xingyu Xiang, Qiaohong Liao, Jiaxin Zhou, Jinxin Guo, Xuemei Yan, Nuolan Liu, C Jessica E Metcalf, Bryan T Grenfell, Hongjie Yu

Nature Communications 14, 1746 (2023)

Risk Factors Associated with the Spatiotemporal Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 Variant — Shanghai Municipality, China, 2022

Wen Zheng, Xiaowei Deng, Cheng Peng, Xuemei Yan, Nan Zheng, Zhiyuan Chen, Juan Yang, Marco Ajelli, Juanjuan Zhang, Hongjie Yu

China CDC Weekly 5(5), 97-102 (2023)

Estimating Changes in Contact Patterns in China Over the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Spread — Four Cities, China, 2020

Yuxia Liang, Cheng Peng, Qian You, Maria Litvinova, Marco Ajelli, Juanjuan Zhang, Hongjie Yu

China CDC Weekly 5(5), 113-119 (2023)

Spatiotemporal distribution of vector mosquito species and areas at risk for arbovirus transmission in Maricopa County, Arizona

André BB Wilke, Dan Damian, Maria Litvinova, Thomas Byrne, Agnese Zardini, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler, John-Paul Mutebi, John Townsend, Marco Ajelli

Acta Tropica 240, 106833 (2023)

Diel activity patterns of vector mosquito species in the urban environment: Implications for vector control strategies

André BB Wilke, Adequate Mhlanga, Allisandra G Kummer, Chalmers Vasquez, Maday Moreno, William D Petrie, Art Rodriguez, Christopher Vitek, Gabriel L Hamer, John-Paul Mutebi, Marco Ajelli

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(1), e0011074 (2023)

SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns in educational settings during the Alpha wave in Reggio-Emilia, Italy

Carla Molina Grané, Pamela Mancuso, Massimo Vicentini, Francesco Venturelli, Olivera Djuric, Mattia Manica, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Valeria d’Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Eufemia Bisaccia, Elisabetta Larosa, Silvia Cilloni, Maria Teresa Cassinadri, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Stefano Merler, Piero Poletti

Epidemics 44, 100712 (2023)

Environmental and socio-economic determinants of mosquito vector species presence and abundance in Los Angeles County, California

Megan Hill, Andre BB Wilke, Douglas O Fuller, Allisandra G Kummer, Paulo C Ventura, John C Beier, Susanne Kluh, Steven Vetrone, Maria Litvinova, Marco Ajelli

Preprint available at Research Square (2023)

Transmission Dynamics and Epidemiological Characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant ― Hunan Province, China, 2021

Kaiwei Luo, Yanpeng Wu, Yan Wang, Ziyan Liu, Lan Yi, Shanlu Zhao, Xuemei Yan, Hao Yang, Kaiyuan Sun, Marco Ajelli, Shixiong Hu, Hongjie Yu

China CDC Weekly 5(3), 56-62 (2023)

Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in educational settings: A retrospective cohort study

Mattia Manica, Piero Poletti, Silvia Deandrea, Giansanto Mosconi, Cinzia Ancarani, Silvia Lodola, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valeria d'Andrea, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Filippo Trentini, Anna Odone, Marcello Tirani, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 17(1), e13049 (2023)

Estimation of the incubation period and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants from contact tracing data

Mattia Manica, Maria Litvinova, Alfredo De Bellis, Giorgio Guzzetta, Pamela Mancuso, Massimo Vicentini, Francesco Venturelli, Eufemia Bisaccia, Ana I Bento, Piero Poletti, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Valeria d'Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Antonino Bella, Flavia Riccardo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Stefano Merler, Reggio Emilia COVID-19 Working Group

Epidemiology & Infection 151, e5 (2023)

2022

Assessing the transition of COVID-19 burden towards the young population while vaccines are rolled out in China

Jun Cai, Juan Yang, Xiaowei Deng, Cheng Peng, Xinhua Chen, Qianhui Wu, Hengcong Liu, Juanjuan Zhang, Wen Zheng, Junyi Zou, Zeyao Zhao, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Emerging Microbes & Infections 11 (1), 1205-1214 (2022)

Epidemiological characteristics and transmission dynamics of the outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Shanghai, China: a descriptive study

Zhiyuan Chen, Xiaowei Deng, Liqun Fang, Kaiyuan Sun, Yanpeng Wu, Tianle Che, Junyi Zou, Jun Cai, Hengcong Liu, Yan Wang, Tao Wang, Yuyang Tian, Nan Zheng, Xuemei Yan, Ruijia Sun, Xiangyanyu Xu, Xiaoyu Zhou, Shijia Ge, Yuxia Liang, Lan Yi, Juan Yang, Juanjuan Zhang, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific 29, (2022)

Characterizing the transmission patterns of seasonal influenza in Italy: lessons from the last decade

Filippo Trentini, Elena Pariani, Antonino Bella, Giulio Diurno, Lucia Crottogini, Caterina Rizzo, Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli

BMC Public Health 22 (1), 1-9 (2022)

Assessing the feasibility of sustaining SARS-CoV-2 local containment in China in the era of highly transmissible variants

Yan Wang, Kaiyuan Sun, Zhaomin Feng, Lan Yi, Yanpeng Wu, Hengcong Liu, Quanyi Wang, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu

BMC Medicine 20 (1), 442 (2022)

Tracking the progressive spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Italy, December 2021 to January 2022

Paola Stefanelli, Filippo Trentini, Daniele Petrone, Alessia Mammone, Luigina Ambrosio, Mattia Manica, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valeria d'Andrea, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Carla Molina Grane, Marco Ajelli, Angela Di Martino, Flavia Riccardo, Antonino Bella, Monica Sane Schepisi, Francesco Maraglino, Piero Poletti, Anna Teresa Palamara, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Patrizio Pezzotti, Stefano Merler

Eurosurveillance 27 (45), 2200125 (2022)

Investigating the relationship between interventions, contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility

Filippo Trentini, Adriana Manna, Nicoletta Balbo, Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Samantha O’Dell, Allisandra G Kummer, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Alessia Melegaro

Epidemics 40, 100601 (2022)

Designing isolation guidelines for COVID-19 patients with rapid antigen tests

Yong Dam Jeong, Keisuke Ejima, Kwang Su Kim, Woo Joohyeon, Shoya Iwanami, Yasuhisa Fujita, Il Hyo Jung, Kazuyuki Aihara, Kenji Shibuya, Shingo Iwami, Ana I Bento, Marco Ajelli

Nature Communications 13 (1), 4910 (2022)

Intrinsic generation time of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: an observational study of household transmission

Mattia Manica, Alfredo De Bellis, Giorgio Guzzetta, Pamela Mancuso, Massimo Vicentini, Francesco Venturelli, Alessandro Zerbini, Eufemia Bisaccia, Maria Litvinova, Francesco Menegale, Carla Molina Grané, Piero Poletti, Valentina Marziano, Agnese Zardini, Valeria d'Andrea, Filippo Trentini, Antonino Bella, Flavia Riccardo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Stefano Merler, Reggio Emilia COVID-19 Working Group

The Lancet Regional Health-Europe 19, 100446 (2022)

Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China

Jun Cai, Xiaowei Deng, Juan Yang, Kaiyuan Sun, Hengcong Liu, Zhiyuan Chen, Cheng Peng, Xinhua Chen, Qianhui Wu, Junyi Zou, Ruijia Sun, Wen Zheng, Zeyao Zhao, Wanying Lu, Yuxia Liang,Xiaoyu Zhou, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Nature Medicine 28 (7), 1468-1475 (2022)

Quantifying the importance and location of SARS-CoV-2 transmission events in large metropolitan areas

Alberto Aleta, David Martín-Corral, Michiel A Bakker, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E Dean, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M Longini Jr, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno, Esteban Moro

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 119 (26), e2112182119 (2022)

Anatomy of the first six months of COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Italy

Nicolò Gozzi, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani

PLOS Computational Biology 18 (5), e1010146 (2022)

Quantifying human mixing patterns in Chinese provinces outside Hubei after the 2020 lockdown was lifted

Yining Zhao, Samantha O’Dell, Xiaohan Yang, Jingyi Liao, Kexin Yang, Laura Fumanelli, Tao Zhou, Jiancheng Lv, Marco Ajelli, Quan-Hui Liu

BMC Infectious Diseases 22 (1), 483 (2022)

The New Quadrivalent Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccine for the Italian Elderly: A Health Technology Assessment

Giovanna Elisa Calabrò, Sara Boccalini, Donatella Panatto, Caterina Rizzo, Maria Luisa Di Pietro, Fasika Molla Abreha, Marco Ajelli, Daniela Amicizia, Angela Bechini, Irene Giacchetta, Piero Luigi Lai, Stefano Merler, Chiara Primieri, Filippo Trentini, Sara Violi, Paolo Bonanni, Chiara de Waure

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (7), 4166 (2022)

Co-circulation of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Gamma variants in Italy, February and March 2021

Paola Stefanelli, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Alessia Mammone, Monica Sane Schepisi, Piero Poletti, Carla Molina Grané, Mattia Manica, Martina del Manso, Xanthi Andrianou, Marco Ajelli, Giovanni Rezza, Silvio Brusaferro, Stefano Merler, COVID-19 National Microbiology Surveillance Study Group

Eurosurveillance 27 (5), 2100429 (2022)

Investigating vaccine-induced immunity and its effect in mitigating SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in China

Hengcong Liu, Juanjuan Zhang, Jun Cai, Xiaowei Deng, Cheng Peng, Xinghui Chen, Juan Yang, Qianhui Wu, Xinhua Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Wen Zheng, Cécile Viboud, Wenhong Zhang, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

BMC Medicine 20 (1), 37 (2022)

Model-based evaluation of alternative reactive class closure strategies against COVID-19

Quan-Hui Liu, Juanjuan Zhang, Cheng Peng, Maria Litvinova, Shudong Huang, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Tao Zhou, Cecile Viboud, Ana I Bento, Jiancheng Lv, Alessandro Vespignani, Stefano Merler, Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli

Nature Communications 13 (1), 322 (2022)

Pressure on the Health-Care System and Intensive Care Utilization During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Lombardy Region of Italy: A Retrospective Observational Study in 43,538 Hospitalized Patients

Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda, Piero Poletti, Raffaella Piccarreta, Antonio Barone, Giuseppe Preziosi, Fabio Arduini, Petra Giulia Della Valle, Alberto Zanella, Francesca Grosso, Gabriele del Castillo, Ambra Castrofino, Giacomo Grasselli, Alessia Melegaro, Alessandra Piatti, Aida Andreassi, Maria Gramegna, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

American journal of epidemiology 191 (1), 137-146 (2022)

2021

The effect of COVID-19 vaccination in Italy and perspectives for living with the virus

Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Alessia Mammone, Flavia Riccardo, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Mattia Manica, Andrea Siddu, Antonino Bella, Paola Stefanelli, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Stefano Merler

Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-8 (2021)

Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave

Jessica T Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Nicola Perra, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Natalie E Dean, Corrado Gioannini, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Luca Rossi, Kaiyuan Sun, Xinyue Xiong, Ira M Longini Jr, M Elizabeth Halloran, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani

Nature 600 (7887), 127-132 (2021)

The early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Lombardy, Italy

Danilo Cereda, Mattia Manica, Marcello Tirani, Francesca Rovida, Vittorio Demicheli, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Raffaella Piccarreta, Antonio Barone, Michele Magoni, Silvia Deandrea, Giulio Diurno, Massimo Lombardo, Marino Faccini, Angelo Pan, Raffaele Bruno, Elena Pariani, Giacomo Grasselli, Alessandra Piatti, Maria Gramegna, Fausto Baldanti, Alessia Melegaro, Stefano Merler

Epidemics 37, 100528 (2021)

A quantitative assessment of epidemiological parameters required to investigate COVID-19 burden

Agnese Zardini, Margherita Galli, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda, Mattia Manica, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Raffaella Piccarreta, Alessia Melegaro, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler

Epidemics 37, 100530 (2021)

Who should be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination in China? A descriptive study

Juan Yang, Wen Zheng, Huilin Shi, Xuemei Yan, Kaige Dong, Qian You, Guangjie Zhong, Hui Gong, Zhiyuan Chen, Mark Jit, Cecile Viboud, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

BMC Medicine 19 (1), 1-13 (2021)

Social contact patterns and implications for infectious disease transmission: a systematic review and meta-analysis of contact surveys

Andria Mousa, Peter Winskill, Oliver John Watson, Oliver Ratmann, Mélodie Monod, Marco Ajelli, Aldiouma Diallo, Peter J Dodd, Carlos G Grijalva, Moses Chapa Kiti, Anand Krishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Supriya Kumar, Kin O Kwok, Claudio F Lanata, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Kathy Leung, Wiriya Mahikul, Alessia Melegaro, Carl D Morrow, Joël Mossong, Eleanor FG Neal, D James Nokes, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Gail E Potter, Fiona M Russell, Siddhartha Saha, Jonathan D Sugimoto, Wan In Wei, Robin R Wood, Joseph Wu, Juanjuan Zhang, Patrick Walker, Charlie Whittaker

eLife 10, e70294 (2021)

Time-varying optimization of COVID-19 vaccine prioritization in the context of limited vaccination capacity

Shasha Han, Jun Cai, Juan Yang, Juanjuan Zhang, Qianhui Wu, Wen Zheng, Huilin Shi, Marco Ajelli, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Hongjie Yu

Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-10 (2021)

Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021

Juan Yang, Valentina Marziano, Xiaowei Deng, Giorgio Guzzetta, Juanjuan Zhang, Filippo Trentini, Jun Cai, Piero Poletti, Wen Zheng, Wei Wang, Qianhui Wu, Zeyao Zhao, Kaige Dong, Guangjie Zhong, Cécile Viboud, Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Nature Human Behaviour 5 (8), 1009-1020 (2021)

Impact of tiered restrictions on human activities and the epidemiology of the second wave of COVID-19 in Italy

Mattia Manica, Giorgio Guzzetta, Flavia Riccardo, Antonio Valenti, Piero Poletti, Valentina Marziano, Filippo Trentini, Xanthi Andrianou, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Martina Del Manso, Massimo Fabiani, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Matteo Spuri, Daniele Petrone, Antonino Bella, Sergio Iavicoli, Marco Ajelli, Silvio Brusaferro, Patrizio Pezzotti, Stefano Merler

Nature Communications 12, 4570 (2021)

Revisiting the guidelines for ending isolation for COVID-19 patients

Yong Dam Jeong, Keisuke Ejima, Kwang Su Kim, Shoya Iwanami, Ana I Bento, Yasuhisa Fujita, Il Hyo Jung, Kazuyuki Aihara, Koichi Watashi, Taiga Miyazaki, Takaji Wakita, Shingo Iwami, Marco Ajelli

eLife 10, e69340 (2021)

Seroprevalence of and Risk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Piero Poletti, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda, Giorgio Guzzetta, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Claudia Toso, Alessandra Piatti, Raffaella Piccarreta, Alessia Melegaro, Aida Andreassi, Maria Gramegna, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

JAMA Network Open 4 (7), e2115699-e2115699 (2021)

Case Fatality Risk of the First Pandemic Wave of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Xiaowei Deng, Juan Yang, Wei Wang, Xiling Wang, Jiaxin Zhou, Zhiyuan Chen, Jing Li, Yinzi Chen, Han Yan, Juanjuan Zhang, Yongli Zhang, Yan Wang, Qi Qiu, Hui Gong, Xianglin Wei, Lili Wang, Kaiyuan Sun, Peng Wu, Marco Ajelli, Benjamin J Cowling, Cecile Viboud, Hongjie Yu

Clinical Infectious Diseases 73 (1), e79-e85 (2021)

The impact of relaxing interventions on human contact patterns and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in China

Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Yuxia Liang, Wen Zheng, Huilin Shi, Alessandro Vespignani, Cecile Viboud, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Science Advances 7 (19), eabe2584 (2021)

Modeling the interplay between demography, social contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the South West Shewa Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Margherita Galli, Agnese Zardini, Fabio Manenti, Giovanni Putoto, Valentina Marziano, Worku Nigussa Gamshie, Ademe Tsegaye, Alessandro Greblo, Alessia Melegaro, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler, Piero Poletti

BMC medicine 19 (1), 89 (2021)

Data-driven estimate of SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity threshold in populations with individual contact pattern variations

Dan Lu, Alberto Aleta, Marco Ajelli, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno

Preprint available at medRxiv (2021)

Infectivity, susceptibility, and risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission under intensive contact tracing in Hunan, China

Shixiong Hu, Wei Wang, Yan Wang, Maria Litvinova, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Qianlai Sun, Xinghui Chen, Ge Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Liang, Zhihong Deng, Wen Zheng, Mei Li, Hao Yang, Jinxin Guo, Kai Wang, Xinhua Chen, Ziyan Liu, Han Yan, Huilin Shi, Zhiyuan Chen, Yonghong Zhou, Kaiyuan Sun, Alessandro Vespignani, Cécile Viboud, Lidong Gao, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-11 (2021)

Serological evidence of human infection with SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xinhua Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Andrew S Azman, Xiaowei Deng, Xinghui Chen, Wanying Lu, Zeyao Zhao, Juan Yang, Cecile Viboud, Marco Ajelli, Daniel T Leung, Hongjie Yu

The Lancet Global Health 9 (5), E598-E609 (2021)

Association of Age With Likelihood of Developing Symptoms and Critical Disease Among Close Contacts Exposed to Patients With Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Italy

Piero Poletti, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Giuliana Sabatino, Valentina Marziano, Ambra Castrofino, Francesca Grosso, Gabriele Del Castillo, Raffaella Piccarreta, Aida Andreassi, Alessia Melegaro, Maria Gramegna, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler, ATS Lombardy COVID, Task Force

JAMA Network Open 4 (3), e211085-e211085 (2021)

Health‐seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

Juan Yang, Hui Gong, Xinhua Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Xiaowei Deng, Mengcen Qian, Zhiyuan Hou, Marco Ajelli, Cecile Viboud, Hongjie Yu

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 15 (2), 188-194 (2021)

Retrospective analysis of the Italian exit strategy from COVID-19 lockdown

Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Bruna Maria Rondinone, Fabio Boccuni, Flavia Riccardo, Antonino Bella, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Patrizio Pezzotti, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Sergio Iavicoli, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (4), e2019617118 (2021)

Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2

Kaiyuan Sun, Wei Wang, Lidong Gao, Yan Wang, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Zhifei Zhan, Xinghui Chen, Shanlu Zhao, Yiwei Huang, Qianlai Sun, Ziyan Liu, Maria Litvinova, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu

Science 371 (6526), eabe2424 (2021)

Inferring high-resolution human mixing patterns for disease modeling

Dina Mistry, Maria Litvinova, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Matteo Chinazzi, Laura Fumanelli, Marcelo FC Gomes, Syed A Haque, Quan-Hui Liu, Kunpeng Mu, Xinyue Xiong, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M Longini, Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Vespignani

Nature Communications 12, 323 (2021)

Risk of Symptomatic Infection During a Second Coronavirus Disease 2019 Wave in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2–Seropositive Individuals

Mattia Manica, Serena Pancheri, Piero Poletti, Giulia Giovanazzi, Giorgio Guzzetta, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Marco Ajelli, Maria Grazia Zuccali, Pier Paolo Benetollo, Stefano Merler, Antonio Ferro

Clinical Infectious Diseases 74 (5), 893–896 (2021)

Impact of a Nationwide Lockdown on SARS-CoV-2 Transmissibility, Italy

Giorgio Guzzetta, Flavia Riccardo, Valentina Marziano, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Antonino Bella, Xanthi Andrianou, Martina Del Manso, Massimo Fabiani, Stefania Bellino, Stefano Boros, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Andrea Piccioli, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Emerging Infectious Diseases 27 (1), 267-270 (2021)

2020

The COVID-19 outbreak Sichuan, China: Epidemiology and impact of interventions

Quan-Hui Liu, Ana I Bento, Kexin Yang, Hang Zhang, Xiaohan Yang, Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani, Jiancheng Lv, Hongjie Yu, Wei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Marco Ajelli

Plos Computational Biology 16 (12), e1008467 (2020)

Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 cases and estimates of the reproductive numbers 1 month into the epidemic, Italy, 28 January to 31 March 2020

Flavia Riccardo, Marco Ajelli, Xanthi D Andrianou, Antonino Bella, Martina Del Manso, Massimo Fabiani, Stefania Bellino, Stefano Boros, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Valentina Marziano, Maria Cristina Rota, Antonietta Filia, Fortunato D'Ancona, Andrea Siddu, Ornella Punzo, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Piero Poletti, Paola Stefanelli, Maria Rita Castrucci, Alessandra Ciervo, Corrado Di Benedetto, Marco Tallon, Andrea Piccioli, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Stefano Merler, Patrizio Pezzotti, Angela di Martino, Marzia Facchini, Stefania Giannitelli, Fabiola Mancini, Simona Puzelli, Roberta Urciuoli, Antonia Petrucci, Michele Labianca, Anna Domenica Mignuoli, Angelo D'Argenzio, Erika Massimiliani, Tolinda Gallo, Paola Scognamiglio, Camilla Sticchi, Danilo Cereda, Daniel Fiacchini, Francesco Sforza, Maria Grazia Zuccaro, Pier Paolo Benetollo, Donatella Tiberti, Maria Chironna, Maria Antonietta Palmas, Salvatore Scondotto, Emanuela Balocchini, Anna Tosti, Mauro Ruffier, Filippo Da Re, COVID-19 working group

Eurosurveillance 25 (49), 2000790 (2020)

Disease burden and clinical severity of the first pandemic wave of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Juan Yang, Xinhua Chen, Xiaowei Deng, Zhiyuan Chen, Hui Gong, Han Yan, Qianhui Wu, Huilin Shi, Shengjie Lai, Marco Ajelli, Cecile Viboud, Hongjie Yu

Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-10 (2020)

Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19

Alberto Aleta, David Martín-Corral, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E Dean, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M Longini Jr, Stefano Merler, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno

Nature Human Behaviour 4 (9), 964-971 (2020)

Age-specific SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality ratio and associated risk factors, Italy, February to April 2020

Piero Poletti, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Sabrina Buoro, Simona Riboli, Lucia Crottogini, Raffaella Piccarreta, Alessandra Piatti, Giacomo Grasselli, Alessia Melegaro, Maria Gramegna, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler

Eurosurveillance 25 (31), 2001383 (2020)

Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study

Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Wei Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaowei Deng, Xinghui Chen, Mei Li, Wen Zheng, Lan Yi, Xinhua Chen, Qianhui Wu, Yuxia Liang, Xiling Wang, Juan Yang, Kaiyuan Sun, Ira M Longini Jr, M Elizabeth Halloran, Peng Wu, Benjamin J Cowling, Stefano Merler, Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

The Lancet Infectious Diseases 20 (7), 793-802 (2020)

Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Yuxia Liang, Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Shanlu Zhao, Qianhui Wu, Stefano Merler, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

Science 368 (6498), 1481-1486 (2020)

The relationship between human mobility and viral transmissibility during the COVID-19 epidemics in Italy

Paolo Cintia, Luca Pappalardo, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Daniele Fadda, Tobia Boschi, Fosca Giannotti, Francesca Chiaromonte, Pietro Bonato, Francesco Fabbri, Francesco Penone, Marcello Savarese, Francesco Calabrese, Giorgio Guzzetta, Flavia Riccardo, Valentina Marziano, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Antonino Bella, Xanthi Andrianou, Martina Del Manso, Massimo Fabiani, Stefania Bellino, Stefano Boros, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Stefano Merler, Paolo Vineis, Dino Pedreschi

Preprint available at arXiv (2020)

The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T Davis, Marco Ajelli, Corrado Gioannini, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Kunpeng Mu, Luca Rossi, Kaiyuan Sun, Cécile Viboud, Xinyue Xiong, Hongjie Yu, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M Longini Jr, Alessandro Vespignani

Science 368 (6489), 395-400 (2020)

Potential short-term outcome of an uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic in Lombardy, Italy, February to March 2020

Giorgio Guzzetta, Piero Poletti, Marco Ajelli, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Danilo Cereda, Marcello Tirani, Giulio Diurno, Annalisa Bodina, Antonio Barone, Lucia Crottogini, Maria Gramegna, Alessia Melegaro, Stefano Merler

Eurosurveillance 25 (12), 2000293 (2020)

Detecting critical slowing down in high-dimensional epidemiological systems

Tobias Brett, Marco Ajelli, Quan-Hui Liu, Mary G Krauland, John J Grefenstette, Willem G van Panhuis, Alessandro Vespignani, John M Drake, Pejman Rohani

Plos Computational Biology 16 (3), e1007679 (2020)

Global, regional, and national estimates of target population sizes for covid-19 vaccination: descriptive study

Wei Wang, Qianhui Wu, Juan Yang, Kaige Dong, Xinghui Chen, Xufang Bai, Xinhua Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Cécile Viboud, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu

BMJ 371, m4704 (2020)

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