He has specific research interests and accomplishments spanning basic science to field work in the areas of malaria, brucellosis and leptospirosis.
[3] Vinetz found cases of severe leptospirosis in relation to environmental exposure and social inequity in Baltimore in the 1990s, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1996.
[6] A paper published in 2003 discussed the worldwide occurrence and spread rate of leptospirosis, and highlighted pulmonary hemorrhage with refractory shock as a major manifestation.
[8] He also drew a comparative analysis between the levels of Leptospira in urban and rural environmental surface waters in sites in the Peruvian Amazon region of Iquitos.
Findings of his study indicated urban severe leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon to be associated with higher concentrations of more pathogenic leptospires at sites of exposure and transmission.
[9] Furthermore, he conducted a study in 2004 focused on the potential relationships of environmental context to human exposure to Leptospira and disease associated with seroconversion.
[12] In 2014, Vinetz explored a protein-conjugate approach to develop a monoclonal antibody-based antigen detection test regarding the diagnosis of human brucellosis.