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Eisenberg Group - Environmental Determinants of Infectious Diseases

Alan Hubbard, PhD

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E-mail: hubbard@stat.berkeley.edu

 

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Dr. Alan Hubbard is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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>> Ecology of Antibiotic Use in Northern Coastal Ecuador

We describe how the flow of antibiotics and their use varies by remoteness of community.... More >>

 

>> Descriptive Study of the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment

This study aims to characterize the profile of antibiotic resistant E. coli bacteria in different environmental media.... More >>

 

>> Regional Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance: A Serial Case-Control Study

This study examines the regional scale surveillance of antibiotic resistance within humans and chickens in northern coastal Ecuador.... More >>

 

>> Social Network Structure and the Determinants of Pathogen Genetic Diversity

A model was developed describing pathogen evolution within a social network.... More >>

 

>> Establishing a Causal Connection in the Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance

Using stool samples collected in a previous study, we will extract E. coli DNA from each sample and create microarray chips.... More >>

 

>> Regional Surveillance of Diarrheal Pathogens: A Serial Case-Control Study

The construction of a new road in a previously roadless area of northern coastal Ecuador provides a valuable natural experiment to examine how changes in the social and natural environment, mediated by road construction, affect the epidemiology of diarrheal diseases.... More >>

 

>> Food Sharing Networks in Rural Coastal Ecuador: A Sociometric Study

This study examines the relationship between remoteness of villages from a population center and the extent of clustering in food-sharing social networks, and the effects that these different network structures might have on transmissibility of food-borne pathogens.... More >>

 

>> Drinking Water Quality in Northern Coastal Ecuador

This project examines issues in drinking water quality in northern coastal Ecuador using an observational study design.... More >>

 

>> Rotavirus Genotyping

In this community-based case-control study, we examined the epidemiology of rotavirus in 22 rural communities in northern coastal Ecuador over a five-year period.... More >>

 

>> Giardia Genotyping

The main goal of this study was to determine the genotypes of Giardia lamblia isolated from humans living in close proximity to animals in rural Ecuador and also to examine whether a higher percentage of asymptomatic and zoonotic genotypes were present in this area.... More >>

 

>> Escherichia coli Pathotype Genotyping

Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) infection rates were examined in Ecuador using a community-based case-control study.... More >>

 

>> Diarrheal Disease Transmission Modeling

Simulation modeling was used to evaluate the effectiveness of water quality interventions under varying community sanitation and hygiene conditions.... More >>

 

>> Taxonomy of Disease Causation

This is an ethnoepidemiologic study of the variability in the taxonomy of diarrheal disease in northern coastal Ecuador.... More >>

 

>> Antibiotic Resistance in Broiler Chickens in Northern Coastal Ecuador

This study aims to characterize the dynamics of the emergence of antibiotic resistance in chickens.... More >>

 

>> Active Surveillance of Diarrheal Pathogens: A 4-Year Longitudinal Study

These data are being used in two distinct analyses: First, to examine the difference between a cohort and cross-sectional design in assessing risks for diarrheal disease. Second, to conduct a detailed longitudinal analysis of diarrheal disease within the region over a four-year period.... More >>