Issue 4, January 24, 2011

Vol. 3, Issue: 4, 1/24/11

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Featured this week is a Supplement focusing on CDC’s Community Guide.

The report consists of three components:

• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications
• Public health articles noted in the media

Supplement - CDC's Community Guide

 

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     • Diabetes and prediabetes screening and prevalence among adults with coronary heart disease
       Kilmer G, Hughes E, Zhang X, Elam-Evans L.
       Am J Prev Med. 2011 Feb;40(2):159-65.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Chikungunya fever in the United States: a fifteen year review of cases
       Gibney KB, Fischer M, Prince HE, Kramer LD, St George K, Kosoy OL, Laven JJ, Staples JE.
       Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Jan 17.
       
     • Herpes zoster vaccine in older adults and the risk of subsequent herpes zoster disease
       Tseng HF, Smith N, Harpaz R, Bialek SR, Sy LS, Jacobsen SJ.
       JAMA. 2011 Jan 12;305(2):160-6.
       

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     • Application of the time-series approach to assess the temporal trend of racial disparity in chlamydia prevalence in the US National Job Training Program
       Tian LH, Satterwhite CL, Braxton JR, Groseclose SL.
       Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Jan 15;173(2):217-24.
       

   • Genetics and Genomics

     • Horizon scanning for new genomic tests
       Gwinn M, Grossniklaus DA, Yu W, Melillo S, Wulf A, Flome J, Dotson WD, Khoury MJ.
       Genet Med. 2011 Jan 12.
       

   • Health Communication and Education

     • Does social media improve communication? Evaluating the NIOSH science blog
       Sublet V, Spring C, Howard J.
       Am J Ind Med. 2011 Jan 18.
       

   • Immunity and Immunization

     • Projected health benefits and costs of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccination in Uganda
       Tate JE, Kisakye A, Mugyenyi P, Kizza D, Odiit A, Braka F.
       Vaccine. 2011 Jan 14.
       

   • Laboratory Sciences

     • Detection of GI and GII noroviruses in ground water using ultrafiltration and TaqMan real-time RT-PCR
       Hill VR, Mull B, Jothikumar N, Ferdinand K, Vinje J.
       Food Environ Virol. 2010 ;2 (4):218-224.
       

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     • Characterization of lead in US workplaces using data from OSHA's Integrated Management Information System
       Henn SA, Sussell AL, Li J, Shire JD, Alarcon WA, Tak S.
       Am J Ind Med. 2011 Jan 18.
       

   • Parasitic Diseases

     • Treatment coverage survey after a school-based mass distribution of mebendazole: Kampot Province; Cambodia
       Chesnaye N, Sinuon M, Socheat D, Koporc K, Mathieu E.
       Acta Trop. 2011 Jan 13.
       
   
   

2. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     1. Provider and partner interactions in the treatment decision-making process for newly diagnosed localized prostate cancer
        Zeliadt SB, Penson DF, Moinpour CM, Blough DK, Fedorenko CR, Hall IJ, Smith JL, Ekwueme DU, Thompson IM, Keane TE, Ramsey SD.
        BJU Int. 2011 Jan 18.
        
     2. Leptin Is inversely associated with lung function in African Americans, independent of adiposity: The Jackson Heart Study
        Hickson DA, Burchfiel CM, Petrini MF, Liu J, Campbell-Jenkins BW, Bhagat R, Marshall GD.
        Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Oct 21.
        
     3. HIV tropism and decreased risk of breast cancer
        Hessol NA, Napolitano LA, Smith D, Lie Y, Levine A, Young M, Cohen M, Minkoff H, Anastos K, D'Souza G, Greenblatt RM, Goedert JJ.
        PLoS ONE. 2010 ;5(12):e14349.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     4. High prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and inadequate case finding in rural western Kenya
        Van't Hoog AH, Laserson KF, Githui WA, Meme HK, Agaya JA, Odeny LO, Muchiri BG, Marston BJ, Decock KM, Borgdorff MW.
        Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Jan 14.
        
     5. Use of serology and urine antigen detection to estimate the proportion of adult community-acquired pneumonia attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae
        Watt JP, Moisi JC, Donaldson RL, Reid R, Ferro S, Whitney CG, Santosham M, O'Brien KL.
        Epidemiol Infect. 2010 Dec;138(12):1796-803.
        
     6. Interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected individuals - a systematic review and meta-analysis
        Cattamanchi A, Smith R, Steingart KR, Metcalfe JZ, Date A, Coleman C, Marston BJ, Huang L, Hopewell PC, Pai M.
        J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010 Dec 25.
        
     7. Coccidioidomycosis: knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare providers - Arizona, 2007
        Chen S, Erhart LM, Anderson S, Komatsu K, Park B, Chiller T, Sunenshine R.
        Med Mycol. 2011 Jan 19.
        
     8. Afriflu--international conference on influenza disease burden in Africa, 1-2 June 2010, Marrakech, Morocco
        Steffen C, Diop OM, Gessner BD, Hacen MM, Hassar M, Katz MA, Miller MA, Paget WJ, Schoub BD, Vernet G, Ndumbe PM.
        Vaccine. 2011 Jan 10;29(3):363-9.
        

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     9. Persistent infection or successive re-infection of deer mice with Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis
        Bai Y, Calisher CH, Kosoy MY, Root JJ, Doty JB.
        Appl Environ Microbiol. 2011 Jan 14.
        

   • Drug Safety

     10. 20 microg versus >20 microg estrogen combined oral contraceptives for contraception
         Gallo MF, Nanda K, Grimes DA, Lopez LM, Schulz KF.
         Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 ;1:CD003989.
         

   • Environmental Health

     11. Surface chemistry of a pine-oil cleaner and other terpene mixtures with ozone on vinyl flooring tiles
         Ham JE, Wells JR.
         Chemosphere. 2011 Jan 13.
         
     12. Serum dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls are associated with growth among Russian boys
         Burns JS, Williams PL, Sergeyev O, Korrick S, Lee MM, Revich B, Altshul L, Del Prato JT, Humblet O, Patterson DG, Turner WE, Needham LL, Starovoytov M, Hauser R.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Jan;127(1):e59-68.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     13. The effect of age on transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in a camp and associated households
         Sugimoto JD, Borse NN, Ta ML, Stockman LJ, Fischer GE, Yang Y, Halloran ME, Longini IM, Duchin JS.
         Epidemiology. 2011 Jan 12.
         
     14. Net survival of perinatally and postnatally HIV-infected children: a pooled analysis of individual data from sub-Saharan Africa
         Marston M, Becquet R, Zaba B, Moulton LH, Gray G, Coovadia H, Essex M, Ekouevi DK, Jackson D, Coutsoudis A, Kilewo C, Leroy V, Wiktor S, Nduati R, Msellati P, Dabis F, Newell ML, Ghys PD.
         Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Jan 18.
         
     15. Estimating the rotavirus hospitalization disease burden and trends, using capture-recapture methods
         Staat MA, Rice MA, Donauer S, Payne DC, Bresee JS, Mast TC, Curns AT, Cortese MM, Connelly B, McNeal M, Ward RL, Bernstein DI, Parashar UD, Salisbury S.
         Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Dec;29(12):1083-6.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     16. Genome-based knowledge and public health: the vision of tomorrow and the challenge of today
         Schulte In den Bauman T, Khoury MJ.
         Eur J Public Health. 2011 Feb;21(1):4-5.
         
     17. New gene variants associated with venous thrombosis - a replication study in United States Whites and Blacks
         Austin H, De Staercke C, Lally C, Bezemer ID, Rosendaal FR, Hooper WC.
         J Thromb Haemost. 2011 Jan 13.
         

   • Health Behavior and Risk

     18. Using the Extended Health Belief Model to understand siblings' perceptions of risk for hereditary hemochromatosis
         Bylund CL, Galvin KM, Dunet DO, Reyes M.
         Patient Educ Couns. 2011 Jan;82(1):36-41.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     19. Herpes zoster vaccination among adults aged 60 years and older, in the U.S., 2008
         Lu PJ, Euler GL, Harpaz R.
         Am J Prev Med. 2011 Feb;40(2):e1-6.
         
     20. Genetic characterization of bulgarian rotavirus isolates and detection of rotavirus variants: challenges for the rotavirus vaccine program?
         Mladenova Z, Iturriza-Gomara M, Esona MD, Gray J, Korsun N.
         J Med Virol. 2011 Feb;83(2):348-56.
         
     21. Diarrhea-associated hospitalizations among US children over 2 rotavirus seasons after vaccine introduction
         Yen C, Tate JE, Wenk JD, Harris JM, Parashar UD.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Jan;127(1):e9-e15.
         
     22. Increased potency of an inactivated trivalent polio vaccine with oil-in-water emulsions
         Baldwin SL, Fox CB, Pallansch MA, Coler RN, Reed SG, Friede M.
         Vaccine. 2011 Jan 17;29(4):644-9.
         

   • Informatics

     23. Full impact of laboratory information system requires direct use by clinical staff: cluster randomized controlled trial
         Blaya JA, Shin S, Contreras C, Yale G, Suarez C, Asencios L, Kim J, Rodriguez P, Cegielski P, Fraser HS.
         J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jan 1;18(1):11-6.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     24. Size-selective sampling of particulates using a physiologic sampling pump
         Lee LA, Lee EG, Lee T, Kim SW, Slaven JE, Harper M.
         J Environ Monit. 2011 Jan 14.
         
     25. Hormonal synchronization of the menstrual cycles of pigtail macaques to facilitate biomedical research including modeling HIV susceptibility
         Livingston L, Sweeney E, Mitchell J, Luo W, Paul K, Powell N, Hendry RM, McNicholl J, Kersh E.
         J Med Primatol. 2011 Jan 17.
         
     26. Determining when enhanced pause (Penh) is sensitive to changes in specific airway resistance
         Frazer DG, Reynolds JS, Jackson MC.
         J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2011 Jan;74(5):287-95.
         
     27. Coevolution of the hepatitis C virus polyprotein sites in patients on combined pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy
         Lara J, Xia G, Purdy M, Khudyakov Y.
         J Virol. 2011 Jan 19.
         
     28. Comparison of influenza vaccine effectiveness using different methods of case detection: clinician-ordered rapid antigen tests vs. active surveillance and testing with real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)
         Coleman LA, Kieke B, Irving S, Shay DK, Vandermause M, Lindstrom S, Belongia EA.
         Vaccine. 2011 Jan 10;29(3):387-90.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     29. Prevention of intellectual disability through screening for congenital hypothyroidism: how much and at what level?
         Grosse SD, Vliet GV.
         Arch Dis Child. 2011 Jan 17.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     30. Statement on national worklife priorities
         Cherniack M, Henning R, Merchant JA, Punnett L, Sorensen GR, Wagner G.
         Am J Ind Med. 2011 Jan;54(1):10-20.
         
     31. Long work hours is associated with suboptimal glycemic control among US workers with diabetes
         Davila EP, Florez H, Trepka MJ, Fleming LE, Niyonsenga T, Lee DJ, Parkash J.
         Am J Ind Med. 2011 Jan 18.
         
     32. Persistence of tungsten oxide particle/fiber mixtures in artificial human lung fluids
         Stefaniak AB.
         Part Fibre Toxicol. 2010 ;7(1):38.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     33. Effects of nurse navigators on health outcomes of cancer patients
         Lee T, Ko I, Lee I, Kim E, Shin M, Roh S, Yoon D, Choi S, Chang H.
         Cancer Nurs. 2011 Jan 15.
         

   • Statistics as Topic

     34. Evaluating bias from birth-cohort effects in the age-based Cox proportional hazards model
         Hein MJ, Schubauer-Berigan MK, Deddens JA.
         Epidemiology. 2011 Jan 12.
         

   • Zoonoses

     35. Zoonotic potential and molecular epidemiology of giardia species and giardiasis
         Feng Y, Xiao L.
         Clin Microbiol Rev. 2011 Jan;24(1):110-40.
         
   
   

3. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media

     36. Self-reported influenza-like illness during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic - United States, September 2009-March 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Jan 21;60(2):37-41.
         
     37. Antiviral agents for the treatment and chemoprophylaxis of influenza --- recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
         Fiore A, Fry A, Shay D, Gubareva L, Bresee JS, Uyeki TM.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Jan 21;60(RR01):1-24.
         

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     38. Diabetes mellitus and breast cancer outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
         Peairs KS, Barone BB, Snyder CF, Yeh HC, Stein KB, Derr RL, Brancati FL, Wolff AC.
         J Clin Oncol. 2011 Jan 1;29(1):40-6.
         

   • Communicable Diseases

     39. Increasing incidence of ischemic stroke in patients with HIV infection
         Ovbiagele B, Nath A.
         Neurology. 2011 Jan 19.
         

   • Injury and Violence

     40. Positive association between altitude and suicide in 2584 U.S. counties
         Brenner B, Cheng D, Clark S, Camargo CA.
         High Alt Med Biol. 2011 Jan 7.
         

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     41. A prospective study of work stressors and the common cold
         Park SG, Kim HC, Min JY, Hwang SH, Park YS, Min KB.
         Occup Med (Lond). 2011 Jan;61(1):53-6.
         
   
   

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