Sharon Kühlmann-Berenzon, MSc. Eng., PhD

Biostatistician

Dept. Epidemiology

Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI)

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Phone: +46 8 457 2376

Anther interesting project is the case-control study of day-care centers, where we investigate the effect of using antibacterial soap versus normal soap and determine if this reduces disease among the children. This study is financed by STRAMA.

Selected papers:

1. E. Andersson, S. Kuhlmann-Berenzon, A. Linde, L. Schioler, S. Rubinova and M. Frisen
   Predictions by early indicators of the time and height of the peaks of yearly influenza outbreaks in Sweden
   Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 36(5):475, 2008
2. L. Payne, S. KÜHlmann-Berenzon, K. Ekdahl, J. Giesecke, L. HÖGberg and P. Penttinen
   'Did you have flu last week? A telephone survey to estimate a point prevalence of influenza in the Swedish population
   Euro surveillance 10(10-12):241-244, 2005
3. K. Sjostrom, C. Spindler, A. Ortqvist, M. Kalin, A. Sandgren, S. Kuhlmann-Berenzon and B. Henriques-Normark
   Clonal and Capsular Types Decide Whether Pneumococci Will Act as a Primary or Opportunistic Pathogen
   Clinical Infectious Diseases 42(4):451-459, 2006
4. I. Velicko, S. Kuhlmann-Berenzon and A. Blaxhult
   Reasons for the sharp increase of genital chlamydia infections reported in the first months of 2007 in Sweden
   Euro Surveill 12(10):E5-6, 2007
5. Kühlmann-Berenzon S, Hjorth U
   Accounting for large-scale effects in the study of understory vegetation using a conditional logistic model
   Environmental and Ecological Statistics. To be published.
6. Kühlmann-Berenzon S, Heikkinen J, Särkkä A
   An additive edge correction based on the refined Campbell theorem Biometrical Journal 47: 517-526.