Stefano Merler

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Stefano Merler

Head of the Unit

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Publications

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

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

in «EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 27,

n. 1,

2021
Stefanelli, Paola; Bella, Antonino; Fedele, Giorgio; Pancheri, Serena; Leone, Pasqualina; Vacca, Paola; Neri, Arianna; Carannante, Anna; Fazio, Cecilia; Benedetti, Eleonora; Fiore, Stefano; Fabiani, Concetta; Simmaco, Maurizio; Santino, Iolanda; Zuccali, Maria Grazia; Bizzarri, Giancarlo; Magnoni, Rosa; Benetollo, Pier Paolo; Merler, Stefano; Brusaferro, Silvio; Rezza, Giovanni; Ferro, Antonio,

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in an area of North-eastern Italy with a high incidence of COVID-19 cases: a population-based study,

in «CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION»,

vol. 27,

n. 4,

2021

, pp. 633-E1 -

633-E7
Marziano, Valentina; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Rondinone, Bruna Maria; Boccuni, Fabio; Riccardo, Flavia; Bella, Antonino; Poletti, Piero; Trentini, Filippo; Pezzotti, Patrizio; Brusaferro, Silvio; Rezza, Giovanni; Iavicoli, Sergio; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano,

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

in «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA»,

vol. 118,

n. 4,

2021

, pp. e2019617118 -
Mistry, Dina; Litvinova, Maria; Pastore Y Piontti, Ana; Chinazzi, Matteo; Fumanelli, Laura; Gomes, Marcelo F C; Haque, Syed A; Liu, Quan-Hui; Mu, Kunpeng; Xiong, Xinyue; Halloran, M Elizabeth; Longini, Ira M; Merler, Stefano; Ajelli, Marco; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Inferring high-resolution human mixing patterns for disease modeling,

in «NATURE COMMUNICATIONS»,

vol. 12,

n. 1,

2021

, pp. 323 -
Poletti, Piero; Tirani, Marcello; Cereda, Danilo; Trentini, Filippo; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Sabatino, Giuliana; Marziano, Valentina; Castrofino, Ambra; Grosso, Francesca; Del Castillo, Gabriele; Piccarreta, Raffaella; Andreassi, Aida; Melegaro, Alessia; Gramegna, Maria; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano,

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,

in «JAMA NETWORK OPEN»,

vol. 4,

n. 3,

2021

, pp. e211085 -
Trentini, Filippo; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Galli, Margherita; Zardini, Agnese; Manenti, Fabio; Putoto, Giovanni; Marziano, Valentina; Gamshie, Worku Nigussa; Tsegaye, Ademe; Greblo, Alessandro; Melegaro, Alessia; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano; Poletti, Piero,

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

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 19,

n. 1,

2021

, pp. 89 -
Sarubbo, Silvio; Tate, Matthew; De Benedictis, Alessandro; Merler, Stefano; Moritz-Gasser, Sylvie; Herbet, Guillaume; Duffau, Hugues,

A normalized dataset of 1821 cortical and subcortical functional responses collected during direct electrical stimulation in patients undergoing awake brain surgery,

in «DATA IN BRIEF»,

2020

, pp. 104892 -
Grasselli, Giacomo; Zangrillo, Alberto; Zanella, Alberto; Antonelli, Massimo; Cabrini, Luca; Castelli, Antonio; Cereda, Danilo; Coluccello, Antonio; Foti, Giuseppe; Fumagalli, Roberto; Iotti, Giorgio; Latronico, Nicola; Lorini, Luca; Merler, Stefano; Natalini, Giuseppe; Piatti, Alessandra; Ranieri, Marco Vito; Scandroglio, Anna Mara; Storti, Enrico; Cecconi, Maurizio; Pesenti, Antonio,

Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy,

in «JAMA»,

2020
Zhang, Juanjuan; Litvinova, Maria; Wang, Wei; Wang, Yan; Deng, Xiaowei; Chen, Xinghui; Li, Mei; Zheng, Wen; Yi, Lan; Chen, Xinhua; Wu, Qianhui; Liang, Yuxia; Wang, Xiling; Yang, Juan; Sun, Kaiyuan; Longini, Ira M; Halloran, M Elizabeth; Wu, Peng; Cowling, Benjamin J; Merler, Stefano; Viboud, Cecile; Vespignani, Alessandro; Ajelli, Marco; Yu, Hongjie,

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

in «THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

2020
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Poletti, Piero; Ajelli, Marco; Trentini, Filippo; Marziano, Valentina; Cereda, Danilo; Tirani, Marcello; Diurno, Giulio; Bodina, Annalisa; Barone, Antonio; Crottogini, Lucia; Gramegna, Maria; Melegaro, Alessia; Merler, Stefano,

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

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 25,

n. 12,

2020
Chinazzi, Matteo; Davis, Jessica T; Ajelli, Marco; Gioannini, Corrado; Litvinova, Maria; Merler, Stefano; Pastore Y Piontti, Ana; Mu, Kunpeng; Rossi, Luca; Sun, Kaiyuan; Viboud, Cécile; Xiong, Xinyue; Yu, Hongjie; Halloran, M Elizabeth; Longini, Ira M; Vespignani, Alessandro,

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

in «SCIENCE»,

vol. 368,

n. 6489,

2020

, pp. 395 -

400
Zhang, Juanjuan; Litvinova, Maria; Liang, Yuxia; Wang, Yan; Wang, Wei; Zhao, Shanlu; Wu, Qianhui; Merler, Stefano; Viboud, Cécile; Vespignani, Alessandro; Ajelli, Marco; Yu, Hongjie,

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

in «SCIENCE»,

2020

, pp. eabb8001 -
Calabrò, Giovanna Elisa; Specchia, Maria Lucia; Boccalini, Sara; Panatto, Donatella; Rizzo, Caterina; Merler, Stefano; Ferriero, Anna Maria; Di Pietro, Maria Luisa; Bonanni, Paolo; de Waure, Chiara,

Strengthening the Evidence-Based Approach to Guiding Effective Influenza Vaccination Policies,

in «VACCINES»,

vol. 8,

n. 3,

2020

, pp. 342 -
Caputo, Beniamino; Russo, Gianluca; Manica, Mattia; Vairo, Francesco; Poletti, Piero; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Merler, Stefano; Scagnolari, Carolina; Solimini, Angelo,

A comparative analysis of the 2007 and 2017 Italian chikungunya outbreaks and implication for public health response,

in «PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES»,

vol. 14,

n. 6,

2020

, pp. e0008159 -
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Vairo, Francesco; Mammone, Alessia; Lanini, Simone; Poletti, Piero; Manica, Mattia; Rosa, Roberto; Caputo, Beniamino; Solimini, Angelo; Torre, Alessandra Della; Scognamiglio, Paola; Zumla, Alimuddin; Ippolito, Giuseppe; Merler, Stefano,

Spatial modes for transmission of chikungunya virus during a large chikungunya outbreak in Italy: a modeling analysis,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 18,

n. 1,

2020
Aleta, Alberto; Martín-Corral, David; Pastore y Piontti, Ana; Ajelli, Marco; Litvinova, Maria; Chinazzi, Matteo; Dean, Natalie E.; Halloran, M. Elizabeth; Longini Jr, Ira M.; Merler, Stefano; Pentland, Alex; Vespignani, Alessandro; Moro, Esteban; Moreno, Yamir,

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

in «NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR»,

2020
Poletti, Piero; Tirani, Marcello; Cereda, Danilo; Trentini, Filippo; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Marziano, Valentina; Buoro, Sabrina; Riboli, Simona; Crottogini, Lucia; Piccarreta, Raffaella; Piatti, Alessandra; Grasselli, Giacomo; Melegaro, Alessia; Gramegna, Maria; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano,

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

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 25,

n. 31,

2020
Bosetti, Paolo; Poletti, Piero; Stella, Massimo; Lepri, Bruno; Merler, Stefano; De Domenico, Manlio,

Heterogeneity in social and epidemiological factors determines the risk of measles outbreaks,

in «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA»,

2020

, pp. 201920986 -
Riccardo, Flavia; Ajelli, Marco; Andrianou, Xanthi D; Bella, Antonino; Del Manso, Martina; Fabiani, Massimo; Bellino, Stefania; Boros, Stefano; Urdiales, Alberto Mateo; Marziano, Valentina; Rota, Maria Cristina; Filia, Antonietta; D'Ancona, Fortunato; Siddu, Andrea; Punzo, Ornella; Trentini, Filippo; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Poletti, Piero; Stefanelli, Paola; Castrucci, Maria Rita; Ciervo, Alessandra; Di Benedetto, Corrado; Tallon, Marco; Piccioli, Andrea; Brusaferro, Silvio; Rezza, Giovanni; Merler, Stefano; Pezzotti, Patrizio,

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

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 25,

n. 49,

2020
Liu, Quan-Hui; Bento, Ana I; Yang, Kexin; Zhang, Hang; Yang, Xiaohan; Merler, Stefano; Vespignani, Alessandro; Lv, Jiancheng; Yu, Hongjie; Zhang, Wei; Zhou, Tao; Ajelli, Marco,

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

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 16,

n. 12,

2020

, pp. e1008467 -
Manica, Mattia; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Filipponi, Federico; Solimini, Angelo; Caputo, Beniamino; Della Torre, Alessandra; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano,

Assessing the risk of autochthonous yellow fever transmission in Lazio, central Italy,

in «PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES»,

vol. 13,

n. 1,

2019

, pp. e0006970 -
Marini, Giovanni; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Marques Toledo, Cecilia A; Teixeira, Mauro; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano,

Effectiveness of Ultra-Low Volume insecticide spraying to prevent dengue in a non-endemic metropolitan area of Brazil,

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 15,

n. 3,

2019

, pp. e1006831 -
Trentini, Filippo; Poletti, Piero; Melegaro, Alessia; Merler, Stefano,

The introduction of ‘No jab, No school’ policy and the refinement of measles immunisation strategies in high-income countries,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 17,

n. 1,

2019
Di Ruscio, Francesco; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Bjørnholt, Jørgen Vildershøj; Leegaard, Truls Michael; Moen, Aina Elisabeth Fossum; Merler, Stefano; Freiesleben de Blasio, Birgitte,

Quantifying the transmission dynamics of MRSA in the community and healthcare settings in a low-prevalence country,

in «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA»,

2019

, pp. 201900959 -
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Minosse, Claudia; Pisapia, Raffaella; Giombini, Emanuela; Mammone, Alessia; Vairo, Francesco; Garbuglia, Anna Rosa; Scognamiglio, Paola; Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria; Merler, Stefano; Ippolito, Giuseppe; Lanini, Simone,

Household transmission and disease transmissibility of a large HAV outbreak in Lazio, Italy, 2016–2017,

in «EPIDEMICS»,

vol. 29,

2019

, pp. 100351 -
Lanini, Simone; Ioannidis, John P A; Vairo, Francesco; Pletschette, Michel; Portella, Gina; Di Bari, Virginia; Mammone, Alessia; Pisapia, Raffaella; Merler, Stefano; Nguhuni, Boniface; Langer, Martin; Di Caro, Antonino; Edwards, Sarah J L; Petrosillo, Nicola; Zumla, Alimuddin; Ippolito, Giuseppe,

Non-inferiority versus superiority trial design for new antibiotics in an era of high antimicrobial resistance: the case for post-marketing, adaptive randomised controlled trials,

in «THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 19,

n. 12,

2019

, pp. E444 -

E451
Marziano, Valentina; Poletti, Piero; Trentini, Filippo; Melegaro, Alessia; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano,

Parental vaccination to reduce measles immunity gaps in Italy,

in «ELIFE»,

vol. 8,

2019
Sarubbo, Silvio; Tate, Matthew; De Benedictis, Alessandro; Merler, Stefano; Moritz-Gasser, Sylvie; Herbet, Guillaume; Duffau, Hugues,

Mapping critical cortical hubs and white matter pathways by direct electrical stimulation: An original functional atlas of the human brain,

in «NEUROIMAGE»,

vol. 205,

2019

, pp. 116237 -
Marini, Giovanni; Arnoldi, Daniele; Baldacchino, Frederic; Capelli, Gioia; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Merler, Stefano; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Rizzoli, Annapaola; Rosà, Roberto,

First report of the influence of temperature on the bionomics and population dynamics of Aedes koreicus, a new invasive alien species in Europe,

in «PARASITES & VECTORS»,

vol. 12,

n. 1,

2019

, pp. 524 -
Trentini, F.; Poletti, P.; Baldacchino, F.; Drago, A.; Montarsi, F.; Capelli, G.; Rizzoli, A.; Rosà, R.; Rizzo, C.; Merler, S.; Melegaro, A.,

The containment of potential outbreaks triggered by imported Chikungunya cases in Italy: a cost utility epidemiological assessment of vector control measures,

in «SCIENTIFIC REPORTS»,

vol. 8,

n. 1,

2018
Viboud, Cécile; Sun, Kaiyuan; Gaffey, Robert; Ajelli, Marco; Fumanelli, Laura; Merler, Stefano; Zhang, Qian; Chowell, Gerardo; Simonsen, Lone; Vespignani, Alessandro,

The RAPIDD ebola forecasting challenge: Synthesis and lessons learnt,

in «EPIDEMICS»,

vol. 22,

2018

, pp. 13 -

21
Ajelli, Marco; Zhang, Qian; Sun, Kaiyuan; Merler, Stefano; Fumanelli, Laura; Chowell, Gerardo; Simonsen, Lone; Viboud, Cecile; Vespignani, Alessandro,

The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge: Model description and synthetic data generation,

in «EPIDEMICS»,

vol. 22,

2018

, pp. 3 -

12
Melegaro, Alessia; Marziano, Valentina; Del Fava, Emanuele; Poletti, Piero; Tirani, Marcello; Rizzo, Caterina; Merler, Stefano,

The impact of demographic changes, exogenous boosting and new vaccination policies on varicella and herpes zoster in Italy: a modelling and cost-effectiveness study,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 16,

n. 1,

2018
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Marques-Toledo, Cecilia A.; Rosà, Roberto; Teixeira, Mauro; Merler, Stefano,

Quantifying the spatial spread of dengue in a non-endemic Brazilian metropolis via transmission chain reconstruction,

in «NATURE COMMUNICATIONS»,

vol. 9,

n. 1,

2018
Marziano, Valentina; Poletti, Piero; Béraud, Guillaume; Boëlle, Pierre-Yves; Merler, Stefano; Colizza, Vittoria,

Modeling the impact of changes in day-care contact patterns on the dynamics of varicella transmission in France between 1991 and 2015,

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 14,

n. 8,

2018

, pp. e1006334 -
Piffer, Silvio; Bignamini, Valeria; Rozzanigo, Umberto; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Gremes, Elisabetta; Marco Bonifati, Domenico,

Different Clinical Phenotypes of Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: A Subgroup Analysis of 86 Patients,

in «JOURNAL OF STROKE AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES»,

vol. 27,

n. 12,

2018

, pp. 3578 -

3586
Poletti, Piero; Parlamento, Stefano; Fayyisaa, Tafarraa; Feyyiss, Rattaa; Lusiani, Marta; Tsegaye, Ademe; Segafredo, Giulia; Putoto, Giovanni; Manenti, Fabio; Merler, Stefano,

The hidden burden of measles in Ethiopia: how distance to hospital shapes the disease mortality rate,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 16,

n. 1,

2018
Sun, Kaiyuan; Zhang, Qian; Pastore-Piontti, Ana; Chinazzi, Matteo; Mistry, Dina; E Dean, Natalie; Patricia Rojas, Diana; Merler, Stefano; Poletti, Piero; Rossi, Luca; Elizabeth Halloran, M; M Longini Jr, Ira; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Quantifying the risk of local Zika virus transmission in the contiguous US during the 2015–2016 ZIKV epidemic,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 16,

n. 1,

2018
Liu, Quan-Hui; Ajelli, Marco; Aleta, Alberto; Merler, Stefano; Moreno, Yamir; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Measurability of the epidemic reproduction number in data-driven contact networks,

in «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA»,

vol. 115,

n. 50,

2018

, pp. 201811115 -
Melegaro, Alessia; Del Fava, Emanuele; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Nyamukapa, Constance; Williams, John; Gregson, Simon; Manfredi, Piero,

Social Contact Structures and Time Use Patterns in the Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe,

in «PLOS ONE»,

vol. 12,

n. 1,

2017

, pp. e0170459 -
Dallabona, Monica; Sarubbo, Silvio; Merler, Stefano; Corsini, Francesco; Pulcrano, Giuseppe; Rozzanigo, Umberto; Barbareschi, Mattia; Chioffi, Franco,

Impact of mass effect, tumor location, age, and surgery on the cognitive outcome of patients with high-grade gliomas: a longitudinal study,

in «NEURO ONCOLOGY PRACTICE»,

2017

, pp. npw030 -
Marini, Giovanni; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Baldacchino, Frederic; Arnoldi, Daniele; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Capelli, Gioia; Rizzoli, Annapaola; Merler, Stefano; Rosà, Roberto,

The effect of interspecific competition on the temporal dynamics of Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens,

in «PARASITES & VECTORS»,

vol. 10,

n. 1,

2017

, pp. 102 -
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Tagliapietra, Valentina; Perkins, Sarah E; Hauffe, Heidi C; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Rizzoli, Annapaola,

Population dynamics of wild rodents induce stochastic fadeouts of a zoonotic pathogen,

in «JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY»,

vol. 86,

2017

, pp. 451 -

459
Chowell, Gerardo; Viboud, Cécile; Simonsen, Lone; Merler, Stefano; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Perspectives on model forecasts of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa: lessons and the way forward,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 15,

n. 1,

2017

, pp. 42 -
Zhang, Qian; Sun, Kaiyuan; Chinazzi, Matteo; Pastore y. Piontti, Ana; Dean, Natalie E.; Rojas, Diana Patricia; Merler, Stefano; Mistry, Dina; Poletti, Piero; Rossi, Luca; Bray, Margaret; Halloran, M. Elizabeth; Longini, Ira M.; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Spread of Zika virus in the Americas,

in «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA»,

vol. 114,

n. 22,

2017

, pp. 201620161 -
Poletti, Piero; Visintainer, Roberto; Lepri, Bruno; Merler, Stefano,

The interplay between individual social behavior and clinical symptoms in small clustered groups,

in «BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 17,

n. 1,

2017
Trentini, Filippo; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Melegaro, Alessia,

Measles immunity gaps and the progress towards elimination: a multi-country modelling analysis,

in «THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 17,

n. 10,

2017

, pp. 1089 -

1097
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Trentini, Filippo; Poletti, Piero; Baldacchino, Frederic Alexandre; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Capelli, Gioia; Rizzoli, Annapaola; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano; Melegaro, Alessia,

Effectiveness and economic assessment of routine larviciding for prevention of chikungunya and dengue in temperate urban settings in Europe,

in «PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES»,

vol. 11,

n. 9,

2017

, pp. e0005918 -
Marini, Giovanni; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano,

First outbreak of Zika virus in the continental United States: a modelling analysis,

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 22,

n. 37,

2017
Marziano, Valentina; Pugliese, Andrea; Merler, Stefano; Ajelli, Marco,

Detecting a Surprisingly Low Transmission Distance in the Early Phase of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic,

in «SCIENTIFIC REPORTS»,

vol. 7,

n. 1,

2017
Manica, Mattia; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Poletti, Piero; Filipponi, Federico; Solimini, Angelo; Caputo, Beniamino; Della Torre, Alessandra; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano,

Transmission dynamics of the ongoing chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy: from coastal areas to the metropolitan city of Rome, summer 2017,

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 22,

n. 44,

2017
Fumanelli, Laura; Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano; Ferguson, Neil M; Cauchemez, Simon,

Model-Based Comprehensive Analysis of School Closure Policies for Mitigating Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics,

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 12,

n. 1,

2016

, pp. e1004681 -
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Manfredi, Piero,

The Epidemiology of Herpes Zoster After Varicella Immunization Under Different Biological Hypotheses: Perspectives From Mathematical Modeling,

in «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY»,

2016

, pp. kwv240 -
Merler, Stefano; Ajelli, Marco; Fumanelli, Laura; Parlamento, Stefano; Pastore Y Piontti, Ana; Dean, Natalie E; Putoto, Giovanni; Carraro, Dante; Longini, Ira M; Halloran, M Elizabeth; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Containing Ebola at the Source with Ring Vaccination,

in «PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES»,

vol. 10,

n. 11,

2016

, pp. e0005093 -
Ciavarella, Constanze; Fumanelli, Laura; Merler, Stefano; Cattuto, Ciro; Ajelli, Marco,

School closure policies at municipality level for mitigating influenza spread: a model-based evaluation,

in «BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 16,

n. 1,

2016

, pp. 576 -
Ajelli, Marco; Merler, Stefano; Fumanelli, Laura; Pastore Y Piontti, Ana; Dean, Natalie E; Longini, Ira M; Halloran, M Elizabeth; Vespignani, Alessandro,

Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea and implications for vaccination and disease elimination: a computational modeling analysis,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 14,

n. 1,

2016

, pp. 130 -
Merler, Stefano,

Effects of clustered transmission on epidemic growth Comment on "Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A review" by Gerardo Chowell et al,

in «PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS»,

vol. 18,

2016

, pp. 112 -

113
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Baldacchino, Frédéric Alexandre; Metz, Markus; Capelli, Gioia; Rizzoli, Annapaola; Pugliese, Andrea; Rosà, Roberto; Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano,

Potential Risk of Dengue and Chikungunya Outbreaks in Northern Italy Based on a Population Model of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae),

in «PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES»,

vol. 10,

n. 6,

2016

, pp. e0004762 -
Sarubbo, Silvio; De Benedictis, Alessandro; Merler, Stefano; Mandonnet, Emmanuel; Barbareschi, Mattia; Dallabona, Monica; Chioffi, Franco; Duffau, Hugues,

Structural and functional integration between dorsal and ventral language streams as revealed by blunt dissection and direct electrical stimulation,

in «HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING»,

vol. 37,

n. 11,

2016

, pp. 3858-3872 -

3872
Marini, Giovanni; Poletti, Piero; Giacobini, Mario; Pugliese, Andrea; Merler, Stefano; Rosà, Roberto,

The Role of Climatic and Density Dependent Factors in Shaping Mosquito Population Dynamics: The Case of Culex pipiens in Northwestern Italy,

in «PLOS ONE»,

vol. 11,

n. 4,

2016

, pp. e0154018 -
Guzzetta, Giorgio; Poletti, Piero; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Baldacchino, Frederic; Capelli, Gioia; Rizzoli, Annapaola; Rosà, Roberto; Merler, Stefano,

Assessing the potential risk of Zika virus epidemics in temperate areas with established Aedes albopictus populations,

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 21,

n. 15,

2016
S Merler; M Ajelli; L Fumanelli; MFC Gomes; A Pastore y Piontti; L Rossi; DL Chao; IM Longini Jr; ME Halloran; A Vespignani,

Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis,

in «THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 15,

n. 2,

2015

, pp. 204 -

211
Poletti, Piero; Merler, Stefano; Ajelli, Marco; Manfredi, P; Munywoki, Pk; Nokes, Dj; Melegaro, A.,

Evaluating vaccination strategies for reducing infant respiratory syncytial virus infection in low-income settings,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 13,

n. 1,

2015

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Marziano V; Poletti P; Guzzetta G; Ajelli M; Manfredi P; Merler S,

The impact of demographic changes on the epidemiology of herpes zoster: Spain as a case study,

in «PROCEEDINGS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES»,

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Effectiveness of contact investigations for tuberculosis control in Arkansas,

in «JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 380,

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Towards a functional atlas of human white matter,

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vol. 36,

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The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Pujehun, Sierra Leone: epidemiology and impact of interventions,

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vol. 13,

n. 1,

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Deciphering the relative weights of demographic transition and vaccination in the decrease of measles incidence in Italy,

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Estimating measles transmission potential in Italy over the period 2010-2011,

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vol. 50,

n. 4,

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Marco Ajelli; Piero Poletti; Alessia Melegaro; Stefano Merler,

The role of different social contexts in shaping influenza transmission during the 2009 pandemic,

in «SCIENTIFIC REPORTS»,

vol. 4,

2014
G. Guzzetta; P. Poletti; E. Del Fava; M. Ajelli; G. Scalia Tomba; S. Merler; P. Manfredi,

Hope-Simpson's Progressive Immunity Hypothesis as a Possible Explanation for Herpes Zoster Incidence Data,

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Perspectives on the Impact of Varicella Immunization on Herpes Zoster. A Model-Based Evaluation from Three European Countries,

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Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1pdm in Italy: Age, Risk and Population Susceptibility,

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n. 10,

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Containing the accidental laboratory escape of potential pandemic influenza viruses,

in «BMC MEDICINE»,

vol. 11,

2013

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A Combinatorial Model of Malware Diffusion via Bluetooth Connections,

in «PLOS ONE»,

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n. 3,

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Risk perception and effectiveness of uncoordinated behavioral responses in an emerging epidemic,

in «MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES»,

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n. 2,

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Inferring the Structure of Social Contacts from Demographic Data in the Analysis of Infectious Diseases Spread,

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n. 9,

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Transmission Potential and Design of Adequate Control Measures for Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever,

in «PLOS ONE»,

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Model predictions and evaluation of possible control strategies for the 2009 A/H1N1v influenza pandemic in Italy,

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n. 1-2,

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The effect of risk perception on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza dynamics,

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Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of the 1918-19 pandemic influenza in Florence, Italy,

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Transmission potential of Chikungunya virus and control measures: the case of Italy,

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n. 5,

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Evaluation of model prediction during the early phase of the 2009 inﬂuenza pandemic in Italy,

in «INFLUENZA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES»,

vol. 5,

n. Suppl. 1,

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Determinants of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Europe: implications for real-time modelling,

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 7,

n. 9,

2011
G. Guzzetta; M. Ajelli; Z. Yang; S. Merler; C. Furlanello; D. Kirschner,

Modeling socio-demography to capture tuberculosis transmission dynamics in a low burden setting,

in «JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 289,

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The role of population heterogeneity and human mobility in the spread of pandemic influenza.,

in «PROCEEDINGS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES»,

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Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models,

in «BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 10,

2010

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202
S. Merler; M. Ajelli,

Human mobility and population heterogeneity in the spread of an epidemic,

in «PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE»,

vol. 1,

n. 1,

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2244
F. Iozzi; F. Trusiano; M. Chinazzi; F. Billari; E. Zagheni; S. Merler; M. Ajelli; E. Del Fava; P. Manfredi,

Little-Italy: an Agent-Based Approach to the Estimation of Contact Patterns. Fitting Predicted Matrices to Serological Data.,

in «PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 6,

n. 12,

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Chikungunya virus in North-Eastern Italy: a seroprevalence survey,

in «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE»,

vol. 82,

n. 3,

2010

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511
Stefano Merler; Marco Ajelli; Caterina Rizzo,

Age-prioritized use of antivirals during an influenza pandemic.,

in «BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES»,

vol. 9,

2009

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117
Piero Poletti; Bruno Caprile; Marco Ajelli; Andrea Pugliese; Stefano Merler,

Spontaneous behavioural changes in response to epidemics.,

in «JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 260,

n. 1,

2009

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40
Marco Ajelli; Stefano Merler,

An individual-based model of hepatitis A transmission.,

in «JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 259,

n. 3,

2009

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488
Merler, Stefano; Poletti, Piero; Ajelli, Marco; Caprile, Bruno Giovanni; P., Manfredi,

Coinfection can trigger multiple pandemic waves,

in «JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY»,

vol. 254,

n. 2,

2008

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507
M. Ciofi degli Atti; S. Merler; C. Rizzo; M. Ajelli; M. Massari; P. Manfredi; C. Furlanello; G. Scalia Tomba; M. Iannelli,

Mitigation measures for pandemic influenza in Italy: an individual based model considering different scenarios,

in «PLOS ONE»,

vol. 3,

n. 3,

2008

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M. Ajelli; S. Merler,

The Impact of the Unstructured Contacts Component in Influenza Pandemic Modeling,

in «PLOS ONE»,

vol. 3,

n. 1,

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A. Barla; G. Jurman; S. Riccadonna; M. Chierici; S. Merler; C. Furlanello,

Machine learning methods for predictive proteomics,

in «BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS»,

vol. 9,

n. 2,

2008

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128
G. Jurman; S. Merler; A. Barla; S. Paoli; A. Galea; C. Furlanello,

Algebraic stability indicators for ranked lists in molecular profiling,

in «BIOINFORMATICS»,

vol. 24,

n. 2,

2008

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264
S. Paoli; G. Jurman; D. Albanese; S. Merler; C. Furlanello,

Integrating gene expression profiling and clinical data,

in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING»,

vol. 47,

n. 1,

2008

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69
Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti; Caterina Rizzo; Antonino Bella; Marco Massari; Mimmo Iannelli; Antonella Lunelli; Andrea Pugliese; Jordi Ripoll; Piero Manfredi; Giampaolo Scalia Tomba; Stefano Merler; Giuseppe Jurman; Cesare Furlanello,

Modelling scenarios of diffusion and control of pandemic influenza, Italy,

in «EUROSURVEILLANCE»,

vol. 12,

n. 1,

2007

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S. Riccadonna; G. Jurman; S. Merler; S. Paoli; A. Quattrone; C. Furlanello.,

Supervised classification of combined copy number and gene expression data.,

in «JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS»,

vol. 4,

n. 3,

2007

, pp. 74 -
M. Cannataro; A. Barla; R. Flor; A. Gallo; G. Jurman; S. Merler; S. Paoli; G. Tradigo; P. Veltri; C. Furlanello,

A grid environment for high-throughput proteomics.,

in «IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE»,

vol. 6,

n. 2,

2007

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123
S. Merler; B. Caprile; C. Furlanello.,

Parallelizing AdaBoost by weights dynamics.,

in «COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS»,

vol. 51,

n. 5,

2007

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C. Furlanello; S. Merler; G. Jurman.,

Combining feature selection and DTW for time-varying functional genomics,

in «IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING»,

vol. 54,

n. 6,

2006

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2443
S. Merler; G. Jurman,

Terminated Ramp - Support Vector Machine: a nonparametric data dependent kernel,

in «NEURAL NETWORKS»,

vol. 19,

2006

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1611
M. Neteler; D. Grasso; I. Michelazzi; L. Miori; S. Merler; C. Furlanello,

An integrated toolbox for image registration, fusion and classification,

in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOINFORMATICS»,

2005

, pp. 51 -

61
C. Furlanello; M. Serafini; S. Merler; G. Jurman,

Semisupervised Learning for Molecular Profiling,

in «IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS»,

2005

, pp. 110 -

118
S. Merler; B. Caprile; C. Furlanello,

Bias-Variance Control via Hard Points Shaving,

in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE»,

vol. 18,

n. 5,

2004

, pp. 891 -

903
C. Furlanello; M. Serafini; S. Merler; G. Jurman,

Methods for predictive classification and molecular profiling from DNA microarray data,

in «ITALIAN HEART JOURNAL»,

vol. 5,

n. 1,

2004

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202
Stefano Merler; Cesare Furlanello; Barbara Larcher; Andrea Sboner,

Automatic model selection in cost-sensitive boosting,

in «INFORMATION FUSION»,

vol. 4,

n. 1,

2003

, pp. 3 -

10
Stefano Merler; Bruno Caprile; Cesare Furlanello,

Bias-Variance Control via Hard Points Shaving,

in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE»,

vol. 18,

2003
Cesare Furlanello; Maria Serafini; Stefano Merler; Giuseppe Jurman,

Entropy-based gene ranking without selection bias for the predictive classification of microarray data,

in «BMC BIOINFORMATICS»,

2003

, pp. 54 -

73
Annamaria Rizzoli; Stefano Merler; Cesare Furlanello; C. Chemini; C. Genchi,

Geographical Information Systems and Bootstrap Aggregation (Bagging) of Tree-Based Classifiers for Lyme Disease Risk Assessment in Trentino, Italian Alps,

in «JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY»,

2002

, pp. 485 -

492
Cesare Furlanello; Stefano Merler; Stefano Menegon; S. Mancuso; G. Bertiato,

New WEBGIS technologies for geolocation of epidemiological data: an application for the surveillance of the risk of Lyme borreliosis disease,

in «GIORNALE ITALIANO DI ARITMOLOGIA E CARDIOSTIMOLAZIONE»,

2002

, pp. 241 -

245
I. Cattadori; Stefano Merler; P.J. Hudson,

Searching for Mechanisms of Synchrony in Spatially Structured Gamebird Populations,

in «JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY»,

2000

, pp. 620 -

638
I. Cattadori; P.J. Hudson; Stefano Merler; Annamaria Rizzoli,

Synchrony, scale and temporal dynamics of rock partridge populations in the Dolomite,

in «JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY»,

1999

, pp. 540 -

549
Cesare Furlanello; Diego Giuliani; Edmondo Trentin; Stefano Merler,

Speaker Normalization and Model Selection of Combined Neural Nets,

in «CONNECTION SCIENCE»,

vol. 9,

n. 1,

1997

, pp. 31 -

50
Stefano Merler; Cesare Furlanello,

Selection of Tree-Based Classifiers with the Bootstrap 632+ Rule,

in «BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL»,

1997

, pp. 369 -

382
C. Chemini; Annamaria Rizzoli; Stefano Merler; Cesare Furlanello; C. Genchi,

Ixodes Ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) Infestation on Roe Deer (Capreolus Capreolus) in Trentino, Italian Alps,

in «PARASSITOLOGIA»,

vol. 39,

1997

, pp. 59 -

63
Stefano Merler; Cesare Furlanello; C. Chemini; G. Nicolini,

Classification Tree Methods for Analysis of Mesoscale Distribution of Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Trentino, Italian Alps,

in «JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY»,

1996

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