Issue 50, December 20, 2010

Vol. 2, Issue: 50, 12/20/10

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Comprehensive assessment of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus drug susceptibility in vitro
       Gubareva LV, Trujillo AA, Okomo-Adhiambo M, Mishin VP, Deyde VM, Sleeman K, Nguyen HT, Sheu TG, Garten RJ, Shaw MW, Fry AM, Klimov AI.
       Antivir Ther. 2010 ;15(8):1151-9.
       
     • HIV/AIDS and global health in 2010: from the old to the old and the new
       De Cock KM.
       Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2010 Dec;14(12):1500-3.
       
     • Dual resistance to adamantanes and oseltamivir among seasonal influenza A(H1N1) viruses: 2008-2010
       Sheu TG, Fry AM, Garten RJ, Deyde VM, Shwe T, Bullion L, Peebles PJ, Li Y, Klimov AI, Gubareva LV.
       J Infect Dis. 2011 Jan;203(1):13-7.
       
     • Infectious syphilis among adolescent and young adult men: implications for human immunodeficiency virus transmission and public health interventions
       Brewer TH, Schillinger J, Lewis FM, Blank S, Pathela P, Jordahl L, Schmitt K, Peterman TA.
       Sex Transm Dis. 2010 Dec 10.
       

   • Community Health Services

     • Gender, acculturation, and health among Mexican Americans
       Gorman BK, Read JG, Krueger PM.
       J Health Soc Behav. 2010 Dec;51(4):440-57.
       

   • Genetics and Genomics

     • Awareness and utilization of BRCA1/2 testing among U.S. primary care physicians
       Bellcross CA, Kolor K, Goddard KA, Coates RJ, Reyes M, Khoury MJ.
       Am J Prev Med. 2011 Jan;40(1):61-6.
       

   • Health Disparities

     • Chronic diseases and related risk factors among low-income mothers
       Bombard JM, Dietz PM, Galavotti C, England LJ, Tong VT, Hayes DK, Morrow B.
       Matern Child Health J. 2010 Dec 14.
       

   • Immunity and Immunization

     • The safety of immunizing with tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) less than 2 years following previous tetanus vaccination: Experience during a mass vaccination campaign of healthcare personnel during a respiratory illness outbreak
       Talbot EA, Brown KH, Kirkland KB, Baughman AL, Halperin SA, Broder KR.
       Vaccine. 2010 Nov 23;28(50):8001-7.
       

   • Maternal and Child Health

     • Incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections in the United States, 2006
       Flagg EW, Weinstock H.
       Pediatrics. 2010 Dec 13.
       

   • MMWR in the Media

     • Health of resettled Iraqi refugees - San Diego county, California, October 2007-September 2009
       MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Dec 17;59(49):1614-1618.
       
   
   

2. CDC Authored Publications

   
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     1. Prevalence and clustering of metabolic risk factors for type 2 diabetes among Chinese adults in Shanghai, China
        Xu H, Song Y, You NC, Zhang ZF, Greenland S, Ford ES, He L, Liu S.
        BMC Public Health. 2010 ;10:683.
        
     2. Cystatin C and long-term mortality among subjects with normal creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rates: NHANES III (Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey)
        Wu CK, Lin JW, Caffrey JL, Chang MH, Hwang JJ, Lin YS.
        J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Nov 30;56(23):1930-6.
        
     3. What factors determine the severity of hepatitis A-related acute liver failure?
        Ajmera V, Xia G, Vaughan G, Forbi JC, Ganova-Raeva LM, Khudyakov Y, Opio CK, Taylor R, Restrepo R, Munoz S, Fontana RJ, Lee WM.
        J Viral Hepat. 2010 Dec 8.
        
     4. Is chronic hepatitis B being undertreated in the United States?
        Cohen C, Holmberg SD, McMahon BJ, Block JM, Brosgart CL, Gish RG, London WT, Block TM.
        J Viral Hepat. 2010 Dec 8.
        
     5. Risk factors for oligodendroglial tumors: a pooled international study
        McCarthy BJ, Rankin KM, Aldape K, Bondy ML, Brannstrom T, Broholm H, Feychting M, Il'yasova D, Inskip PD, Johansen C, Melin BS, Ruder AM, Butler MA, Scheurer ME, Schuz J, Schwartzbaum JA, Wrensch MR, Davis FG.
        Neuro Oncol. 2010 Dec 10.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     6. Costs and consequences of additional chest X-ray in a tuberculosis prevention program in Botswana
        Samandari T, Bishai D, Luteijn M, Mosimaneotsile B, Motsamai O, Postma M, Hubben G.
        Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010 Dec 10.
        
     7. Influenza A virus transmission: contributing factors and clinical implications
        Belser JA, Maines TR, Tumpey TM, Katz JM.
        Expert Rev Mol Med. 2010 ;12:e39.
        
     8. Tuberculosis deaths averted by implementation of the DOTS strategy in Kazakhstan
        Favorov M, Belilovsky E, Aitmagambetova I, Ismailov S, White ME, Chorba T.
        Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2010 Dec;14(12):1582-8.
        
     9. The burden of hospitalized lower respiratory tract Infection due to respiratory syncytial virus in rural Thailand
        Fry AM, Chittaganpitch M, Baggett HC, Peret TC, Dare RK, Sawatwong P, Thamthitiwat S, Areerat P, Sanasuttipun W, Fischer J, Maloney SA, Erdman DD, Olsen SJ.
        PLoS One. 2010 ;5(11):e15098.
        
     10. Measurements of airborne influenza virus in aerosol particles from human coughs
         Lindsley WG, Blachere FM, Thewlis RE, Vishnu A, Davis KA, Cao G, Palmer JE, Clark KE, Fisher MA, Khakoo R, Beezhold DH.
         PLoS One. 2010 ;5(11):e15100.
         

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     11. Urban focus of Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Los Angeles, California
         Abramowicz KF, Rood MP, Krueger L, Eremeeva ME.
         Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2010 Dec 13.
         

   • Environmental Health

     12. Source water quality effects on monochloramine inactivation of adenovirus, coxsackievirus, echovirus, and murine norovirus
         Kahler AM, Cromeans TL, Roberts JM, Hill VR.
         Water Res. 2010 Nov 24.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     13. Integrated disease investigations and surveillance planning: a systems approach to strengthening national surveillance and detection of events of public health importance in support of the International Health Regulations
         Taboy CH, Chapman W, Albetkova A, Kennedy S, Rayfield MA.
         BMC Public Health. 2010 ;10(Suppl. 1):S6.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     14. Inflammation gene variants and susceptibility to albuminuria in the U.S. population: analysis in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1991-1994
         Ned RM, Yesupriya A, Imperatore G, Smelser DT, Moonesinghe R, Chang MH, Dowling NF.
         BMC Med Genet. 2010 ;11:155.
         

   • Health Behavior and Risk

     15. HIV risk and the overlap of injecting drug use and high-risk sexual behaviours among men who have sex with men in Zanzibar (Unguja), Tanzania
         Johnston LG, Holman A, Dahoma M, Miller LA, Kim E, Mussa M, Othman AA, Kim A, Kendall C, Sabin K.
         Int J Drug Policy. 2010 Nov;21(6):485-92.
         
     16. Group differences in risk across three domains using an expanded measure of sexual orientation
         Loosier PS, Dittus PJ.
         J Prim Prev. 2010 Dec 12.
         

   • Health Communication and Education

     17. Parental attitudes toward human papillomavirus vaccination: evaluation of an educational intervention, 2008
         Kennedy A, Sapsis KF, Stokley S, Curtis CR, Gust D.
         J Health Commun. 2010 Dec 15:1-14.
         

   • Immune System Disorders

     18. Total serum IgE levels in systemic lupus erythematosus and associations with childhood onset allergies
         Parks C, Biagini R, Cooper G, Gilkeson G, Dooley M.
         Lupus. 2010 ;19(14):1614-22.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     19. Safety and effectiveness of a 2009 H1N1 vaccine in Beijing
         Wu J, Xu F, Lu L, Lu M, Miao L, Gao T, Ji W, Suo L, Liu D, Ma R, Yu R, Zhangzhu J, Liu W, Zeng Y, Li X, Zhang X, Pang X, Deng Y.
         N Engl J Med. 2010 Dec 16;363(25):2416-23.
         
     20. NS-based live attenuated H1N1 pandemic vaccines protect mice and ferrets
         Zhou B, Li Y, Belser JA, Pearce MB, Schmolke M, Subba AX, Shi Z, Zaki SR, Blau DM, Garcia-Sastre A, Tumpey TM, Wentworth DE.
         Vaccine. 2010 Nov 23;28(50):8015-25.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     21. Diabetes Antibody Standardization Program: evaluation of assays for insulin autoantibodies
         Schlosser M, Mueller PW, Torn C, Bonifacio E, Bingley PJ.
         Diabetologia. 2010 Dec;53(12):2611-20.
         
     22. Novel point-of-care test for simultaneous detection of nontreponemal and treponemal antibodies in patients with syphilis
         Castro AR, Esfandiari J, Kumar S, Ashton M, Kikkert SE, Park MM, Ballard RC.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Dec;48(12):4615-9.
         
     23. Molecular determination of H-antigens of Salmonella using a microsphere based liquid array
         McQuiston JR, Waters RJ, Dinsmore BA, Mikoleit ML, Fields PI.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Dec 15.
         
     24. Evaluation of a rapid and completely automated real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay for the diagnosis of enteroviral meningitis
         Nolte FS, Rogers BB, Tang YW, Oberste MS, Robinson CC, Kehl KS, Rand KA, Rotbart HA, Romero JR, Nyquist AC, Persing DH.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Dec 15.
         
     25. Infection with highly pathogenic h7 influenza viruses results in an attenuated proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine response early after infection
         Belser JA, Zeng H, Katz JM, Tumpey TM.
         J Infect Dis. 2011 Jan;203(1):40-8.
         
     26. Cyanidin-3-glucoside inhibits ethanol-induced invasion of breast cancer cells overexpressing ErbB2
         Xu M, Bower KA, Wang S, Frank JA, Chen G, Ding M, Shi X, Ke Z, Luo J.
         Mol Cancer. 2010 ;9:285.
         
     27. Arginase activities and global arginine bioavailability in wild-type and apoE-deficient mice: responses to high fat and high cholesterol diets
         Erdely A, Kepka-Lenhart D, Salmen-Muniz R, Chapman R, Hulderman T, Kashon M, Simeonova PP, Morris SM.
         PLoS One. 2010 ;5(12):e15253.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     28. Evaluation of nano- and submicron particle penetration through ten nonwoven fabrics using a wind-driven approach
         Gao P, Jaques PA, Hsiao TC, Shepherd A, Eimer BC, Yang M, Miller A, Gupta B, Shaffer R.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2011 Jan;8(1):13-22.
         
     29. Evaluation of the filtration performance of NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirators by photometric and number-based test methods
         Rengasamy S, Miller A, Eimer BC.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2011 Jan;8(1):23-30.
         
     30. Physiological responses to wearing a prototype firefighter ensemble compared with a standard ensemble
         Williams WJ, Coca A, Roberge R, Shepherd A, Powell J, Shaffer RE.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2011 Jan;8(1):49-57.
         
     31. Comparison of stainless and mild steel welding fumes in generation of reactive oxygen species
         Leonard SS, Chen BT, Stone SG, Schwegler-Berry D, Kenyon AJ, Frazer D, Antonini JM.
         Part Fibre Toxicol. 2010 ;7:32.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining

     32. Stochastic modeling of gob gas venthole production performances in active and completed longwall panels of coal mines
         Karacan CO, Luxbacher K.
         Int J Coal Geol. 2010 Nov;84(2):125-140.
         
     33. Excess lung function decline in gold miners following pulmonary tuberculosis
         Ross J, Ehrlich RI, Hnizdo E, White N, Churchyard GJ.
         Thorax. 2010 Nov;65(11):1010-5.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     34. Planning for exercises of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) forensic capabilities
         Reutter D, Schutzer SE, Craft CM, Fletcher J, Fricke FL, Holowachuk SA, Johnson RC, Keim PS, Pearson JL, Sibert RW, Velsko S.
         Biosecur Bioterror. 2010 Dec;8(4):343-355.
         
     35. U.S. Government engagement in support of global disease surveillance
         Katz RL, Lopez LM, Annelli JF, Arthur RR, Carroll D, Chapman LW, Cole K, Gay CG, Lowe DL, Resnick G, Russell KL.
         BMC Public Health. 2010 ;10(Suppl. 1):S13.
         
     36. Strengthening public health surveillance and response using the health systems strengthening agenda in developing countries
         Nsubuga P, Nwanyanwu O, Nkengasong JN, Mukanga D, Trostle M.
         BMC Public Health. 2010 ;10(Suppl. 1):S5.
         
     37. Connecticut competency-based point of dispensing worker training needs assessment
         Durante A, Melchreit R, Sullivan K, Degutis L.
         Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2010 Dec;4(4):306-11.
         
     38. Developing national standards for public health emergency preparedness with a limited evidence base
         Nelson C, Chan E, Chandra A, Sorensen P, Willis HH, Dulin S, Leuschner K.
         Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2010 Dec;4(4):285-90.
         

   • Reproductive Health

     39. Expanded safety and acceptability of the candidate vaginal microbicide Carraguard in South Africa
         Altini L, Blanchard K, Coetzee N, De Kock A, Elias C, Ellertson C, Friedland B, Hoosen A, Jones HE, Kilmarx PH, Marumo M, McGrory E, Monedi C, Ndlovu G, Nkompala B, Pistorius A, Ramjee G, Sebola M, Sorhaindo A, Norris Turner A, Tweedy K, Van De Wijgert J, Williams MM, Winikoff B.
         Contraception. 2010 ;82 (6):563-571.
         

   • Sciences, General

     40. A proposal to change existing virus species names to non-Latinized binomials
         Van Regenmortel MH, Burke DS, Calisher CH, Dietzgen RG, Fauquet CM, Ghabrial SA, Jahrling PB, Johnson KM, Holbrook MR, Horzinek MC, Keil GM, Kuhn JH, Mahy BW, Martelli GP, Pringle C, Rybicki EP, Skern T, Tesh RB, Wahl-Jensen V, Walker PJ, Weaver SC.
         Arch Virol. 2010 Nov;155(11):1909-19.
         

   • Statistics as Topic

     41. Preface
         Rolka HR.
         Stat Med. 2010 Dec 8.
         

   • Veterinary Medicine

     42. 2010 ACVIM small animal consensus statement on leptospirosis: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention
         Sykes JE, Hartmann K, Lunn KF, Moore GE, Stoddard RA, Goldstein RE.
         J Vet Intern Med. 2010 Dec 13.
         
   
   

3. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media

     43. Adverse childhood experiences reported by adults - five states, 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Dec 17;59(49):1609-1613.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     44. Does early school entry prevent obesity among adolescent girls?
         Zhang N, Zhang Q.
         J Adolesc Health. 2010 .
         
   
   

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