Paul Lantos
Research Professor of Global Health
Professor, General Internal Medicine
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Chair, DUHS Institutional Review Board

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Paul Lantos
Research Professor of Global Health
Professor, General Internal Medicine
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Chair, DUHS Institutional Review Board
Dr. Lantos’ research expertise is the spatial epidemiology of infectious diseases using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statistical analysis. He currently has active research studies in the geospatial analysis of Lyme disease, congenital cytomegalovirus, zoonotic influenza, dengue, and social and demographic health disparities. He has received a grant to train public health personnel in China and Mongolia in GIS software and spatial analysis. His research makes use of geocoded electronic health records and public health data to identify spatial and spatiotemporal patterns in human disease risk, employing cluster analyses, geostatistical point pattern analyses, generalized additive models, and Bayesian spatial analytical methods. Dr. Lantos was chair and lead author of the Lyme disease guideline from the American Academy of Neurology, American College of Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Lantos has worked internationally in both research and clinical capacities, including in The Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, Tanzania, Mongolia, China, and the Peruvian Amazon.
Publications
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Brumwell A, Sutton G, Lantos PM, Hoffman K, Ruffin F, Brinkac L, et al. Escherichia coli ST131 Associated with Increased Mortality in Bloodstream Infections from Urinary Tract Source. J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Jul 20;61(7):e0019923.Ruffin F, Dagher M, Park LP, Wanda L, Hill-Rorie J, Mohnasky M, et al. Black and White Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Have Similar Outcomes but Different Risk Factors. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 3;76(7):1260–5.Raynor EM, Martin HL, Poehlein E, Lee H-J, Lantos P. Impact of maternal cytomegalovirus seroconversion on newborn and childhood hearing loss. Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol. 2022 Oct;7(5):1626–33.Matulis GA, Altantogtokh D, Lantos PM, Jones JH, Wofford RN, Janko M, et al. Hotspots in a cold land-reported cases of rabies in wildlife and livestock in Mongolia from 2012-2018. Zoonoses Public Health. 2022 Sep;69(6):655–62.
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