Scholars@Duke
Nick Brazeau

Nick Brazeau

Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine
Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Scholarly Works - Preprints

Towards an open analysis ecosystem for Plasmodium genomic epidemiology.

Preprint · April 1, 2025 Major advances in Plasmodium sequencing approaches, bioinformatic pipelines, and data analysis tools have provided valuable insights into malaria epidemiology from parasite genomic data. However, translating genetic data into actionable information for dec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Strong isolation by distance and evidence of population microstructure reflect ongoing Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Zanzibar.

Preprint · June 27, 2024 BACKGROUND: The Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania has become a low-transmission area for Plasmodium falciparum. Despite being considered an area of pre-elimination for years, achieving elimination has been difficult, likely due to a combination of imported ... Full text Link to item Cite

Strong isolation by distance and evidence of population microstructure reflect ongoing Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Zanzibar

Preprint · April 26, 2024 AbstractThe Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania has become a low-transmission area for Plasmodium falciparum. Despite being considered an area of pre-elimination for years, achieving elimination has been difficult, li ... Full text Cite

Strong isolation by distance and evidence of population microstructure reflect ongoing Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Zanzibar

Preprint · November 17, 2023 AbstractThe Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania has become a low-transmission area for Plasmodium falciparum. Despite being considered an area of pre-elimination for years, achieving elimination has been difficult, li ... Full text Cite

State-level tracking of COVID-19 in the United States

Preprint · 2020 As of 1st June 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 104,232 confirmed or probable COVID-19-related deaths in the US. This was more than twice the number of deaths reported in the next most severely impacted country. We jointly m ... Full text Cite

A sub-national analysis of the rate of transmission of COVID-19 in Italy

Preprint · 2020 Italy was the first European country to experience sustained local transmission of COVID-19. As of 1st May 2020, the Italian health authorities reported 28,238 deaths nationally. To control the epidemic, the Italian government implemented a suite of non-ph ... Full text Cite

Spatial and epidemiological drivers of P. falciparum malaria among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Preprint · 2020 Background Malaria remains a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Adults are frequently infected and may serve as a reservoir for further transmission, yet we know relatively little about risk factors for adult infections. In ... Full text Cite