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James Lloyd-Smith

Professor, UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Verified email at ucla.edu
Cited by 29676

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 as compared with SARS-CoV-1

…, NJ Thornburg, SI Gerber, JO Lloyd-Smith… - New England journal …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Lloyd-Smith, Ph.D. … Lloyd-Smith and Gamble), from the National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022,
to Dr. Lloyd-Smith), and from the Strategic Environmental Research and …

[HTML][HTML] Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence

JO Lloyd-Smith, SJ Schreiber, PE Kopp, WM Getz - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Population-level analyses often use average quantities to describe heterogeneous systems,
particularly when variation does not arise from identifiable groups 1 , 2 . A prominent …

[HTML][HTML] Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories

WB Karesh, A Dobson, JO Lloyd-Smith, J Lubroth… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
More than 60% of human infectious diseases are caused by pathogens shared with wild or
domestic animals. Zoonotic disease organisms include those that are endemic in human …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to zoonotic spillover

…, AI Ko, AL Graham, JO Lloyd-Smith - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Lloyd-Smith, JO et al. Epidemic dynamics at the human–animal interface. Science 326, 1362…
Pepin, KM, Lass, S., Pulliam, JR, Read, AF & Lloyd-Smith, JO Identifying genetic markers of …

Epidemic dynamics at the human-animal interface

JO Lloyd-Smith, D George, KM Pepin, VE Pitzer… - science, 2009 - science.org
Few infectious diseases are entirely human-specific: Most human pathogens also circulate
in animals or else originated in nonhuman hosts. Influenza, plague, and trypanosomiasis are …

Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo

…, SC Johnston, JO Lloyd Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Studies on the burden of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
were last conducted from 1981 to 1986. Since then, the population that is immunologically …

Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health

…, V Isham, P Klepac, J Lessler, JO Lloyd-Smith… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Despite many notable successes in prevention and control, infectious
diseases remain an enormous threat to human and animal health. The ecological and …

Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease?

JO Lloyd-Smith, PC Cross, CJ Briggs… - Trends in ecology & …, 2005 - cell.com
Host population thresholds for the invasion or persistence of infectious disease are core
concepts of disease ecology and underlie disease control policies based on culling and …

[HTML][HTML] The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

BG Williams, JO Lloyd-Smith, E Gouws… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Background A randomized controlled trial (RCT) has shown that male circumcision (MC)
reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men by 60% (32%−76%; 95% CI) offering …

Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19

…, RO Mummah, AJ Kucharski, JO Lloyd-Smith - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Traveller screening is being used to limit further spread of COVID-19 following its recent
emergence, and symptom screening has become a ubiquitous tool in the global response. …