Peer-reviewed publications

This page lists all my original works published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Most are indexed in PubMed, with the exception of some articles published in journal supplements or non-indexed journals. For each publication, I briefly summarised its context, described the context of the work, and added links to relevant bibliographic resources.

Measles Outbreak Driven by Nosocomial Transmission, Armenia, February-July 2023

Article in English published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Paediatricians in the West Bank, Palestine, Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination Among Children Younger than 12 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study, October to November 2023

Article in English published in the journal Vaccines

Knowledge and Support for Antimicrobial Stewardship Does Not Necessarily Translate into Good Practice: Survey in a Tertiary Hospital in Moldova, May-June 2024

Article in English published in the journal Antibiotics

Identifying Gaps and Challenges in Acute Hepatitis B Surveillance in the Country of Georgia: Comprehensive Surveillance System Evaluation

Article in English published in the journal JMIR Public Health Surveillance

Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) Vaccine Effectiveness against Symptomatic Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Infection among Outpatients in Sentinel Sites, Lebanon, July-December 2021

Article in English published in the journal Vaccines

Behavioural and Cognitive Attitudes of Paediatricians towards Influenza Self-Vaccination-Partial Mediation Model

Article in English published in the journal Vaccines

Easy access to vaccination was important for adherence during the 2016-2019 HPV catch-up vaccination in Norway

Article in English published in the journal Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Sociodemographic determinants of catch-up HPV vaccination completion between 2016-2019 in Norway

Article in English published in the journal Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Exotic dried fruits caused Salmonella Agbeni outbreak with severe clinical presentation, Norway, December 2018 to March 2019

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Reporting of notifiable infectious diseases during the COVID-19 response

Article in Norwegian and English published in the journal Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening

In-hospital mortality in Poland: what can we learn from administrative data?

Article in English published in the journal Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

Genetic diversity of Francisella tularensis in Poland with comments on MLVA genotyping and a proposition of a novel rapid v4-genotyping

Article in English published in the journal Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

High overall confidence in childhood vaccination in Norway, slightly lower among the unemployed and those with a lower level of education

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

Exploring factors improving support for vaccinations among Polish primary care physicians

Article in English published in the journal PLoS One

Pneumococcal meningitis before the introduction of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine into the National Childhood Immunization Program in Poland

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

Increase of scabies infestations, Norway, 2006 to 2018

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Association between exposure to a mixture of phenols, pesticides, and phthalates and obesity: Comparison of three statistical models

Article in English published in the journal Environment International

A predictive model has identified tick-borne encephalitis high-risk areas in regions where no cases were reported previously, Poland, 1999-2012

Article in English published in the journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Are the current notification criteria for Lyme borreliosis in Norway suitable? Results of an evaluation of Lyme borreliosis surveillance in Norway, 1995-2013

Article in English published in the journal BMC Public Health

European public health policies for managing contacts of invasive meningococcal disease cases better harmonised in 2013 than in 2007

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Strong Public Health recommendations from weak evidence? Lessons learned in developing guidance on the Public Health management of meningococcal disease

Article in English published in the journal BioMed Research International

Predictors for diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis infection in Poland, 2009-2010

Article in English published in the journal Infectious Diseases (formerly Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases)

Measles vaccination coverage survey in Moba, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2013: need to adapt routine and mass vaccination campaigns to reach the unreached

Article in English published in the journal PLoS Currents Outbreaks (that ceased to published)

Incidence and factors predicting whooping cough due to parapertussis diagnosis among patients referred to general practitioners, Poland, 2009-2011

Article in English published in the journal European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Incidence of pertussis in patients of general practitioners in Poland

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection

Cross-border surveillance differences: tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis in the Czech Republic and Poland, 1999-2008

Article in English published in the journal Central European Journal of Public Health

Antibacterial prescriptions for acute gastrointestinal infections: uncovering the iceberg

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection

Virus Detection in Questing Ticks is not a Sensitive Indicator for Risk Assessment of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Humans

Article in English published in the journal Zoonoses and Public Health

Community incidence of pathogen-specific gastroenteritis: reconstructing the surveillance pyramid for seven pathogens in seven European Union member states

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection

Costs of Medically Attended Acute Gastrointestinal Infections: The Polish Prospective Healthcare Utilization Survey

Article in English published in the journal Value in Health Regional Issues

New endemic foci of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) identified in districts where testing for TBE was not available before 2009 in Poland

Article in English published in the journal Parasites & Vectors

Ongoing outbreak of rubella among young male adults in Poland: increased risk of congenital rubella infections

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Variation in adult vaccination policies across Europe: An overview from VENICE network on vaccine recommendations, funding and coverage

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

A national case-control study identifies human socio-economic status and activities as risk factors for tick-borne encephalitis in Poland

Article in English published in the journal PLoS One

Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccination policies and coverage in Europe

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Incidence of self-reported acute gastrointestinal infections in the community in Poland: a population-based study

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection

Reliable surveillance of tick-borne encephalitis in European countries is necessary to improve the quality of vaccine recommendations

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

Toward rubella elimination in Poland: need for supplemental immunization activities, enhanced surveillance, and further integration with measles elimination efforts

Article in English published in a special supplement of the Journal of Infectious Diseases

Reliability of the cut-off value in the routine serodiagnosis of pertussis performed by the commercial ELISA assays

Article in Polish published in the journal Medycyna Doswiadczalna i Mikrobiologia

What is the evidence for giving chemoprophylaxis to children or students attending the same preschool, school or college as a case of meningococcal disease?

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection

Etiology of measles suspect cases reported in 2006-2007 in Poland

Article in Polish published in the journal Przeglad Epidemioliczny [Epidemiological Review]

I-MOVE multi-centre case control study 2010-11: overall and stratified estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness in Europe

Article in English published in the journal PLoS One

Surveillance of aseptic central nervous system infections in Poland: is it meeting its objectives?

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in 30 EU countries: Towards a European system?

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

The current state of introduction of human papillomavirus vaccination into national immunisation schedules in Europe: first results of the VENICE2 2010 survey

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Differences in national influenza vaccination policies across the European Union, Norway and Iceland 2008-2009

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Hepatitis B immunisation programmes in European Union, Norway and Iceland: where we were in 2009?

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

Tracking parental attitudes on vaccination across European countries: The Vaccine Safety, Attitudes, Training and Communication Project (VACSATC)

Article in English published in the journal Vaccine

Spotlight on measles 2010: An epidemiological overview of measles outbreaks in Poland in relation to the measles elimination goal

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Mass immunisation campaign in a Roma settled community created an opportunity to estimate its size and measles vaccination uptake, Poland, 2009

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Spotlight on measles 2010: A measles outbreak in a Roma population in Pulawy, eastern Poland, June to August 2009

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Parental attitudes towards childhood immunisations in Poland

Article in Polish published in the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Sources of information and knowledge on childhood immunisations among Polish parents

Article in Polish published in the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Polish Epidemiologic]

Tick-borne encephalitis outbreak in Hungary due to consumption of raw goat milk

Article in English published in the journal Journal of Virological Methods

Applied epidemiology training in Europe: quite a success – but more to be done

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Weather conditions as a factor fovouring the increase of tick-borne diseases prevalence in Poland

Article in English published in the journal Annals of Geomatics

Identification of new endemic tick-borne encephalitis foci in Poland – a pilot seroprevalence study in selected regions

Article in English published in a supplement of the International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Prevalence of tic disorders among schoolchildren in Warsaw, Poland

Article in English published in the journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Ecologic study of the risk of tick-borne encephalitis in Poland – presentation of the method

Article in English published in a supplement of the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Effectiveness of vaccinating household contacts in addition to chemoprophylaxis after a case of meningococcal disease: a systematic review

Article in English published in the journal Epidemiology & Infection

A European survey on public health policies for managing cases of meningococcal disease and their contacts

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

The detection of meningococcal household clusters and their prophylaxis in the changing epidemiological situation of invasive meningococcal disease in Poland, 2003-2006

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis and changes in the surveillance system in Poland, 1970-2006

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Unexpected rise in measles incidence in Poland in 2006 may be related to Ukrainian outbreak

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Seroprevalence study of parvovirus B19 in Poland

Article in Polish published in the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Validity and reliability of Polish adaptation of Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) in a study of Warsaw schoolchildren aged 12-15

Article in Polish published in the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Evaluation of tick-borne encephalitis case classification in Poland

Article in English published in the journal Eurosurveillance

Epidemiology of tick-borne infections In Poland

Article in Polish published in a supplement of the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Smallpox – historical or real threat?

Article in Polish published in a supplement of the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Herd immunity and effectiveness of vaccination

Article in Polish published in a supplement of the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Poliomyelitis eradication in Poland – Assessment of the program implementation

Article in Polish published in the journal Przegląd Epidemiologiczny [Epidemiological Review]

Epidemiological methods used in studies of Tourette syndrome prevalence

Article in Polish published in the journal Psychiatria Polska [Polish Psychiatry]

Botulinum toxin in the treatment of focal dystonias – own experiences with botulinum toxin

Article in Polish published in the journal Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska [Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery]