Robert Clinton Spear, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Professor in the Graduate School
PHONE: (510) 642-0761
FAX: (510) 642-5815
LOCATION: 749 University Hall
E-MAIL: spear@berkeley.edu
WEBSITE: Schistosomiasis in China
Research Interests
- Mathematical modeling of toxicological and infectious processes
- Statistical issues in exposure assessment
Selected Publications
R.C. Spear, E.Y.W. Seto, E. Carlton, S. Liang, J.V. Remais, B. Zhong, D. Qiu, The challenge of effective surveillance in moving from low transmission to elimination of schistosomiasis in China, Intl, J. Parasitology, in press, 2011
E.Y.W. Seto, J. Remais, E. Carlton, S. Wang, S. Liang, P. Brindley, D. Qiu and R. Spear , Towards Sustainable and Comprehensive Control of Schistosomiasis in China: Lessons from Sichuan, PLoS Neg Trop Dis, In press, 2011
R.C. Spear and S. Liang, Mathematical modeling as an aid in developing strategy for sustainable interruption of S. japonicum transmission in the hilly and mountainous regions of China, J. Schisto. Control, 23, 231-236, 2011, In Chinese
R.C. Spear, Internal versus external determinants of S. japonicum transmission in irrigated agricultural villages, J. Royal Soc. Interface, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0285
N. Xiao, J. Remais, P.J. Brindley, D. Qiu, R.C. Spear, Y. Lei, and D. Blair, Polymorphic microsatellites in the human bloodfluke, Schsitosoma japonicum, identified using a genomic resource, Parasites and Vectors, 4, 13, 2011
E. Carlton, M. Bates, B. Zhong, E. Seto, and R. Spear, The challenge of surveillance following disease control: the distribution of Schistosoma japonicum in mammalian and intermediate host populations in a reemerging region, PLoS Neg Trop Dis, 5, 3 , e987, 2011
S. Sudat, E. Carlton, E.. Seto, R. Spear, and A. Hubbard, Using variable importance measures from causal inference to rank risk factors of schistosomiasis infection in a rural setting in China, Epid. Perspec. Innovations, 7:3, http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/7/1/3, 2010
E. Carlton, M. Hsiang, Y. Zhang, S. Johnson, A, Hubbard, and R.C. Spear, The impact of Schistosoma japonicum infection in ultrasound-detectable liver and spleen pathology; results from a five-year cohort study in Southwest China. PLoS Neg Trop Dis, 4, e685, 2010
M. Ghambir, M. Bockarie, Daniel Tisch, J. Kazura, J. Remais, R. Spear, and E. Michael, Geographic and ecologic heterogeneity in elimination thresholds for the major vector-borne helminthic disease, lymphatic filariasis, BMC Biology, 8, 1741-, 2010.
J.V. Remais, B. Zhong, E.J. Carlton, and R.C. Spear, Model approaches for estimating the influence of time varying socio-environmental factors on macroparasite transmission in two endemic regions, Epidemics, 1, 213-220, 2009
Profile updated: September 6, 2011