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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS: (in reverse chronological order)

Gisselquist D, Potterat JJ, St. Lawrence JS, Hogan M, Arora NK, Correa M, Dinsmore W, Mehta G, Millogo J, Muth SQ, Okinyi M, Ounga T. How to contain generalized HIV epidemics? A plea for better evidence to displace speculation. International Journal of STD & AIDS, July 2009; 20(7):443-446. [Abstract][Full Text][PDF]

Fichtenberg CM, Muth SQ, Brown B, Padian NS, Glass TA, Ellen JM. The structure of African American adolescent sexual networks in an endemic sexually transmitted infection setting. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Jan 2009; 36(1):41-48. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]

Brewer DD, Roberts JM.Jr., Muth SQ, Potterat JJ. Prevalence of male clients of prostitute women in the United States. Human Organization, Sept 2008; 67(3):346-356.  [abstract]
(presented as: Prevalence of Clients of Prostitute Women in North America. The 2004 American Society of Criminology Conference, Cincinnati, November 2004; 25th International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, Feb 2005.)

Brewer DD, Muth SQ, Potterat JJ. Demographic, Biometric, and Geographic Comparison of Clients of Prostitutes and Men in the US General Population. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 2008 June 9; (11).  [fulltext (free)]

Cook VJ, Sun SJ, Tapia J, Muth SQ, Arguello DF, Lewis BL, Rothenberg RB, McElroy PD, and the Network Analysis Project Team.  Transmission Network Analysis in Tuberculosis Contact Investigations. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2007 Nov 15; 196(10):1517-1527. Epub 2007 Oct 31.  [abstract]

Rothenberg R, Muth SQ.  Large network concepts and small network characteristics: fixed and variable factors. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2007; 34(8):604-612. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF].
(presented at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications symposium “Networks and the Population Dynamics of Disease Transmission”, University of Minnesota, Nov 19 2003)

Rothenberg RB, Dan My Hoang T, Muth SQ, Crosby R. The Atlanta Urban Adolescent network study: a network view of STD prevalence. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2007; 34(8):525-531. Appearing ahead of print as 10.1097/01.olq.0000258132.06764.a1. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF].

Seña, AC, Muth SQ, Heffelfinger JD, O’Dowd JO, Foust E, Leone P.  Factors and the Sociosexual Network Associated With a Syphilis Outbreak in Rural North Carolina. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2007; 34(1).  Appearing ahead of print: POST COPYEDIT, 29 November 2006, 10.1097/01.olq.0000237776.15870.c3.[abstract]

Niccolai L.M., Stephens N, Jenkins H, Richardson W, Muth SQ, Rothenberg R.  Infectious Syphilis Among Men in Connecticut: Epidemiologic and Spatial Patterns. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2007. Appearing ahead of print: POST COPYEDIT, 10 August 2006, 10.1097/01.olq.0000233708.27225.90. [abstract]
(presented at the National STD Prevention Conference, Jacksonville, FL, May 10 2006; abstract 307)

Brewer DD, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Roberts JM Jr.  A large specific deterrent effect of arrest for patronizing a prostitute. Public Library of Science ONE 2006; 1(1): e60. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000060.[abstract] [pdf] [XML]
(presented at The 2004 American Society of Criminology Conference, Cincinnati, November 2004.)

Brewer DD, Dudek JA, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Woodhouse DE.  Extent, trends, and perpetrators of prostitution-related homicide.  Journal of Forensic Science, 2006; 51(5):1101–1108. [abstract]
(presented at the U.S. Annual Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2004.

Brewer DD, Hagan H, Sullivan DG, Muth SQ, Hough ES, Gretch DR.  Social structural and behavioral underpinnings of hyperendemic HCV transmission in drug injectors.  Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2006;194(6):764–772. [abstract]
(presented at the XXV International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 2005; the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute Brown Bag Seminar, University of Washington, June 14, 2005, and at the Epidemiology Brown Bag Seminar, HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Program, Public Health-Seattle & King County, July 12, 2005.)

Auerswald CL, Muth SQ, Brown B, Padian N, Ellen J.  Does partner selection contribute to sex differences in Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates Among African American Adolescents in San Francisco? Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2006; 33(8):480–484. [abstract] 
(presented at the XXV International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 2005.)

Brewer DD, Rothenberg RB, Muth SQ, Roberts, JM Jr, Potterat JJ.  Agreement in reported sexual partnership dates and implications for measuring concurrency.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2006; 33(5):277–283. [abstract]

Rothenberg RB, Muth SQ, Malone S, Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE.  Social and Geographic Distance in HIV Risk.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2005; 32(8):506–512. [abstract]
(presented, in part, at the 5th European and XVIII International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Sitges, Spain, May 1998.)

Ellen JM, Brown BA, Chung S, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Valente TW, Padian NS.  Impact of sexual networks on risk for gonorrhea and chlamydia among low-income urban African American adolescents.  The Journal of Pediatrics 2005; 146:518–522. [abstract]
(presented at the ISSTDR Conference, Ottawa Canada, July 2003.  Abstr. 0039. [PDF – pg25, bottom]

Brewer, D. D., Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Malone PZ, Montoya PA, Green DA, Rogers HL, & Cox PA. Randomized trial of supplementary interviewing techniques to enhance recall of sexual partners in contact interviews. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2005; 32(3):189–193. [abstract]
(presented partially at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC, November 1998, the XXII International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, New Orleans, February 2002, and at the XXIV International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2004.)

Brody S, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Woodhouse DE. Psychiatric and characterological factors relevant to excess mortality in a long-term cohort of prostitute women.  Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 2005; 31(2):97–112. [abstract]

Potterat JJ, Brewer DD, Muth SQ, Rothenberg RB, Woodhouse DE, Muth JB, Stites HK, Brody S. Mortality in a long-term open cohort of prostitute women.  American Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 159(8):778–785. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF]

Rothenberg RB, McElroy PD, Wilce M, and Muth SQ.  Contact tracing: comparing the approaches for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis.  International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2003 Dec; 7(12):S342–S348. [abstract] [PDF]

McElroy PD, Rothenberg RB, Varghese R, Woodruff R, Minns G, Lambert LA, Muth SQ, and Ridzon R.  A Network-Informed Approach to Investigating a Tuberculosis Outbreak: Implications for Enhancing Contact Investigations. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2003 Dec; 7(12 Suppl 3):S486–93. [abstract]
(nominated for the 2004 Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Laboratory and Methods category [DOC - pg10])

Auerswald CL; Brown B; Muth SQ; Padian N; Ellen J.  Older male partners, high rates of incarceration and marginal economic activities in the sexual networks of a random digit dial sample of 14-19 year old economically disadvantaged African American youth.  Journal of Adolescent Health 2003 Feb; 32(2):155. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF]

Potterat JJ, Phillips-Plummer L, Muth SQ, Rothenberg RB, Woodhouse DE, Maldonado-Long TS, Zimmerman HP, Muth JB.  Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado Springs.  Sexually Transmitted Infections  2002; 78(Suppl I):i159–i163. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF]
(presented, in part, at the "Phase-specific Strategies for the Prevention, Control and Elimination of Sexually Transmitted Diseases" Conference, Rome, Italy, 5 October 2000.)

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Rothenberg, RB, Zimmerman-Rogers H, Green DL, Taylor JE, Bonney MS, White HAl.  Sexual network structure as an indicator of epidemic phase.   Sexually Transmitted Infections 2002; 78(Suppl I):i152–i158. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF]
(presented at the "Phase-specific Strategies for the Prevention, Control and Elimination of Sexually Transmitted Diseases" Conference, Rome, Italy, 5 October 2000.) 

Brewer D, Potterat JJ, Garrett SB, Muth SQ, Roberts JM, Kasprzyk D, Montano DE, Darrow WW.  Prostitution and the sex discrepancy in reported number of sexual partners.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000; 97:12385–12388. [abstract] [fulltext] [PDF]
(presented at the XIXth International Social Networks Conference, Charleston, SC, 2/1999)

Rothenberg RB, Sterk C, Long D, Pach A, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ.  The Atlanta urban networks study: I. A blueprint for endemic transmission.   AIDS 2000; 14:2191–2201. [abstract]

Muth SQ, Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB.  Birds of a feather: assessing sample bias using geographic information systems.  The International Journal of Epidemiology 2000; 29:899–904. [abstract]
(presented, in part, at the 5th European and XVIIIth Sunbelt Conference on Social Networks, Sitges, Spain, May 1998.)

Rothenberg R, Wasserheit JN, St.Louis ME and the Ad Hoc STD/HIV Transmission Group.  The effect of treating STDs on the transmission of HIV in dually-infected persons: a clinic-based estimate.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2000; 27:411–416. [abstract]
(presented at the 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, June 1998, Abstract No. 23369.)

Potterat JJ, Zimmerman‑Rogers H, Muth SQ, Rothenberg RB, Green DL, Taylor JE, Bonney MS, White HA. Chlamydial transmission: concurrency, reproductive ratio and the epidemic trajectory.  The American Journal of Epidemiology 1999; 150:1331–1339. [abstract] [fulltext]

Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB, Muth JB, Woodhouse DE, Muth SQ. Invoking, monitoring and relinquishing a public health police power: the Health Hold Order. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1999; 26:345–349. (Editorialized in the same issue as, The role of the police power in 21st century public health, pp. 350–357.) [abstract]

Zimmerman‑Rogers H, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Bonney MS, Green DL, Taylor JE, White HA.  Establishing efficient partner notification periods for chlamydia patients.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1999; 26:49–54. [abstract]
(Presented at 12th International Society for STD Research Conference, Seville, Spain, 22 October 1997; Abstract # 775.)

Darrow WW, Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB, Woodhouse DE, Muth SQ, Klovdahl AS.  Using knowledge of social networks to prevent human immunodeficiency virus infections: the Colorado Springs study.  Sociological Focus 1999; 32:143–158. [abstract]
(presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 20 August 1995, Washington DC)

Potterat JJ, Rothenberg R, Muth S.  Network structural dynamics and infectious disease propagation.  The International Journal of STD & AIDS 1999; 10:182–185. [abstract]
(presented at the 2nd European Conference on Methods and Results of Social and Behavioral Research on AIDS, Paris, France, 14 January 1998: Abstract SY 6.4; and at the Measurement of Risk and Modeling of AIDS Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 June 1998)

Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB, Muth SQ, Darrow WW, Phillips‑Plummer L. Pathways to prostitution: the chronology of sexual and drug abuse milestones.  The Journal of Sex Research 1998; 35(4):333–340. [fulltext]
(presented at the IX International Conference on AIDS/IV STD World Congress, Berlin, Germany, June 1993 [Abstract # WS‑CO8‑5])

Rothenberg RB, Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Muth SQ, Darrow WW, Klovdahl A.  Social network dynamics and HIV transmission.  AIDS 1998; 12:1529–1536. [abstract]
(presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 10 July 1995, Washington, DC; at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego [California], October 1995; and at the XVI International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Charleston, SC, February 1996)

Brace NE, Zimmerman HP, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Muth JB, Maldonado TS, Rothenberg RB.  Community‑based HIV prevention in presumably underserved populations ‑ Colorado Springs, Colorado, July‑September 1995.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1997; 46:152–155. [fulltext]  (Reprinted in the Journal of the American Medical Association 1997; 277:876–877.)

Rothenberg RB, Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Darrow WW, Muth SQ, Klovdahl AS.  Choosing a centrality measure: epidemiologic correlates in the Colorado Springs study of social networks. Social Networks 1995; 17:273–297. [abstract]
(presented at the XIV International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, New Orleans [Louisiana], 18 February 1994.)

Woodhouse DE, Rothenberg RB, Potterat JJ, Darrow WW, Muth SQ, Klovdahl AS, Zimmerman HP, Rogers, HL, Maldonado TS, Muth JB, Reynolds JU.  Mapping a social network of heterosexuals at high risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection.  AIDS 1994; 8:1331–1336. [abstract]
(presented, in part, at the VI International Conference on AIDS, 23 June 1990, San Francisco [California]: Abstract # S.C. 679; also at the VII International Conference on AIDS, 19 June 1991, Florence, Italy: Abstract # W.C. 100; and at the VIII International Conference on AIDS/III STD World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1992: Abstract ThC 1519.)

Klovdahl AS, Potterat J, Woodhouse D, Muth J, Muth S, Darrow WW.  Social networks and infectious disease: The Colorado Springs study.  Social Science and Medicine 1994; 38:79–88. [abstract]
(presented at the VI International Conference on AIDS, June 1990, San Francisco [California]: Poster SC 679; and at the XII International Social Networks Conference, San Diego [California], February 1992.)

Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Rothenberg RB, Muth SQ, Darrow WW, Muth JB, Reynolds JU.  AIDS in Colorado Springs: Is there an epidemic?  AIDS 1993; 7:1517–1521. [abstract]

Bethea RP, Muth SQ, Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Muth JB, Spencer NE, Hoffman RE.  Gang‑related outbreak of Penicillinase‑Producing Neisseria Gonorrhoeae and other sexually transmitted diseases ‑ Colorado Springs, 1989‑1991.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1993; 42(2):25–28.  (Reprinted in the Journal of the American Medical Association 1993; 269:1092,1094.) [fulltext]
(presented at the VIII International Conference on AIDS/III STD World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1992: Abstract ThC 1516.)

Klovdahl AS, Potterat J, Woodhouse D, Muth J, Muth S, Darrow WW.  HIV infection in an urban social network: a progress report.  Bulletin De Méthodologie Sociologique 1992; 36:24–33.
(presented by AS Klovdahl at the XI International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Tampa Florida, February, 1991)

Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Muth JB, Muth SQ.  Estimating the prevalence and career longevity of prostitute women.  Journal of Sex Research 1990; 27:233–243.



CHAPTERS:

MacKeigan T, Muth SQ.  “A Grammatical Network of Tzotzil Mayan Colour Terms”, in Carole P. Biggam & Christian J. Kay (eds): Progress in Colour Studies Volume I: Language and culture, John Benjamins, 2006.
(presented as “A Network Analysis of the Emergence of a New Colour Term” at the Progress in Colour Studies Colour Conference, July 2004.  Department of English Language, Institute for the Historical Study of Language,
University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE, Muth SQ, Rothenberg RB, Darrow WW, Klovdahl AS, Muth JB. Network dynamism: history and lessons of the Colorado Springs study, in Morris M (ed.) Network Epidemiology: A Handbook for Network Survey Design. Oxford University Press, 2004: Ch. 4.
(presented at the IUSSP Conference on Partnership Networks and the Spread of HIV, Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 7, 2000.)

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Muth JB.  “Partner notification in the early AIDS era: misconstruing contact tracers as bedroom police”, in Stanfield J and Margolis E (eds): Research in Social Policy  Vol. 6 (AIDS Research/AIDS Policy: Competing Paradigms of Science and Public Policy), 1998:1–15. JAI Press Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut. [link]
(presented, in part, at the "Future Directions in Partner Notification: Policy, Practice, and Research" Conference, 17 October 1996,Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta [Georgia] and at the 10th Annual Texas HIV/STD Conference, 2 July 1997, Austin [Texas].)

Woodhouse DE, Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB, Darrow WW, Klovdahl AS, Muth SQ.  “Ethical and legal issues in social networks research: the real and the ideal”,  in Needle RH, Genser SG, Trotter II RT (eds):  Social Networks, Drug Abuse and HIV Transmission.  National Institute on Drug Abuse Monograph No. 151 (NIH Publication No. 95‑3889); 1995:131–143.
(presented at NIDA, Rockville [Maryland] 20 August 1993.)

Rothenberg RB, Woodhouse DE, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Darrow WW, Klovdahl AS.  “Social networks in disease transmission: the Colorado Springs study”, in Needle RH, Genser SG, Trotter II RT, (eds): Social Networks, Drug Abuse and HIV Transmission. National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph No. 151 (NIH Publication No. 95‑3889); 1995:3–19.
(presented at NIDA, Rockville [Maryland] 19 August 1993.)


COMMENTARIES:

Potterat JJ, Brewer DD, Rothenberg RB, Muth SQ, & Brody S. HIV and hepatitis C epidemics in Africa: continuing the debate. AIDScience 2003; 3:19(16 October). [fulltext]

Foster KC, Muth SQ, Potterat JJ, Rothenberg RB.  A Faster Katz Status Score Algorithm. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 2001; 7(4):275–285. [abstract]

Jolly A, Wylie J, Muth S, Potterat J.  Sexual networks and STIs; a tale of two cities. The Journal of Urban Health 2001; 78(3):433–445. [abstract]

Rothenberg RB, Baldwin J, Trotter R, Muth SQ.  The risk environment for HIV transmission: results from the Atlanta and Flagstaff network studies. The Journal of Urban Health 2001; 78(3):419–432. [abstract]

Muth SQ, Potterat JJ.  Every picture tells a story: mapping STD cases to depict risk. Colorado Public Health Association Newsletter Spring 1999, p.2

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Brody S.  Evidence undermining the adequacy of the reproductive number formula: a matter of scale?  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2000; 27(10):644–645. [fulltext]

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Bethea RP.  Chronicle of a gang STD outbreak foretold.  Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 1996; 24:11–16.
 

LETTERS:

Brewer DD, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Gisselquist D, Brody S.  Disconnects in presumed heterosexual HIV transmission in Malawi. AIDS 22(11):1377. [fulltext] [PDF]

Potterat JJ, Brody S, Brewer DD, Muth SQ.  Assessing anal intercourse and blood exposures as routes of HIV transmission in Mombasa, Kenya. Sexually Transmitted Infections Epub 23 April 2008.

Brewer DD, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Brody S.  Converging Evidence Suggests Nonsexual HIV Transmission among Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007;40:290-291.

Brewer DD, Rothenberg RB, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ.  Data-Free Modeling of HIV Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2007;34(1)54-56. [PDF]

Potterat JJ, Brewer DD, Brody S, Muth SQ.  The protective effect of male circumcision as a faith lift for the troubled paradigm of HIV epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa. Public Library of Science: Medicine Epub 2006 Jan 31; 3(1):e6

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Stites H.  Twenty-year mortality in a 1981 cohort of homosexuals with gonorrhea: a preliminary estimate.  International Journal of STD & AIDS 2001; 12(6):414–415.

Potterat JJ, Muth SQ.  Of vice and men: reflections on drug abuse and male prostitution. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1999; 26:93–94. [fulltext]

Plummer L, Potterat JJ, Muth SQ, Muth JB, Darrow WW.  Providing support and assistance for low‑income or homeless women.  Journal of the American Medical Association 1996; 276:1874–1875.

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