Selected Publications


Porco TC, Getz WM. Controlling extensively drug resistant TB. Lancet 370:1464-1465, 2007. (Commentary.)

Ray KJ, Porco TC, Hong KC, Lee DC, Alemayehu W, Melese M, Lakew T, Yi E, House J, Chidambaram JD, Whitcher JP, Gaynor BD, Lietman TM. A rationale for continuing mass antibiotic distributions for trachoma. BMC Infectious Diseases 7:91, 2007.

Flaherman VJ, Porco TC, Marseille E, and Royce SE. Cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for tuberculosis screening prior to kindergarten entry, Pediatrics 120:90-99, 2007.

Eisenberg JNS, Scott J, and Porco TC. Integrating public health control
strategies: balancing water sanitation and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrheal disease burden, American Journal of Public Health, 97:846-852, 2007.

Porco TC, Lewis B, Marseille E, Grinsdale J, Flood JM, and Royce SE. Cost effectiveness of tuberculosis evaluation and treatment of newly-arrived immigrants, BMC Public Health 6:157, 2006.

Granich RM, Oh P, Lewis B, Porco TC, Flood JM. Multi-drug resistance among persons with tuberculosis in California, 1994-2003, Journal of the American Medical Association 293:2732-2730, 2005.

Porco TC, Lloyd-Smith J, Gross K, and Galvani A. The effect of treatment on pathogen virulence, Journal of Theoretical Biology 233(1):91-102, 2005.

Gross K, Porco TC, and Grant RM. HIV-1 superinfection and viral diversity, AIDS, 18(11):1513-1520, 2004.

Porco TC, Holbrook K, Fernyak S, Portnoy D, Reiter R, and Arag4on T.
Logistics of community smallpox control through contact tracing and ring
vaccination: a stochastic network model, BMC Public Health 4:34, 2004.

Porco TC, Martin J, Page-Shafer K, Cheng A, Charlebois E, Grant RM, and Osmond D. Decline in HIV infectivity following the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy, AIDS, 18:81-88, 2004.