Issue 10, March 4, 2011

Vol. 3, Issue: 10, 3/7/11

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The report consists of four components:

• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications
• Key scientific articles in featured topic areas (this week featuring Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Screening)
• Public health articles noted in the media

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions  

     • Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death
       Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration.
       N Engl J Med. 2011 Mar 3;364(9):829-41.
       

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Screening  

     • Cancer screening behaviors of African American women enrolled in a community-based cancer prevention trial
       Reiter PL, Linnan LA.
       J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Feb 19.
       

   • Health Behavior and Risk  

     • Differences between African-American adolescent females with and without human papillomavirus infection
       Seth P, Wingood GM, Diclemente RJ, Crosby RA, Salazar LF, Rose ES, Sales JM.
       Sex Health. 2011 ;8 (1):125-127.
       

   • Health Disparities  

     • Racial inequities in receipt of influenza vaccination among long-term care residents within and between facilities in Michigan
       Bardenheier B, Wortley P, Ahmed F, Gravenstein S, Hogue CJ.
       Med Care. 2011 Mar 1.
       

   • Healthcare Associated Infections  

     • Health care-associated infections studies project: case 4
       Wright MO, Hebden JN, Allen-Bridson K, Morrell GC, Horan T.
       Am J Infect Control. 2011 February;39 (1):64-65.
       

   • Laboratory Sciences  

     • Development and evaluation of novel one-step TaqMan realtime RT-PCR assays for the detection and direct genotyping of genogroup I and II noroviruses
       Schultz AC, Vega E, Dalsgaard A, Christensen LS, Norrung B, Hoorfar J, Vinje J.
       J Clin Virol. 2011 Mar;50(3):230-4.
       
     • Diagnosis of influenza from respiratory autopsy tissues detection of virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR in 222 cases
       Denison AM, Blau DM, Jost HA, Jones T, Rollin D, Gao R, Liu L, Bhatnagar J, Deleon-Carnes M, Shieh WJ, Paddock CD, Drew C, Adem P, Emery SL, Shu B, Wu KH, Batten B, Greer PW, Smith CS, Bartlett J, Montague JL, Patel M, Xu X, Lindstrom S, Klimov AI, Zaki SR.
       J Mol Diagn. 2011 Mar;13(2):123-8.
       

   • Maternal and Child Health  

     • Prevalence and functioning of children with cerebral palsy in four areas of the United States in 2006: a report from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network
       Kirby RS, Wingate MS, Van Naarden Braun K, Doernberg NS, Arneson CL, Benedict RE, Mulvihill B, Durkin MS, Fitzgerald RT, Maenner MJ, Patz JA, Yeargin-Allsopp M.
       Res Dev Disabil. 2011 Mar-Apr;32(2):462-9.
       

   • Occupational Safety and Health  

     • The business cycle and the incidence of workplace injuries: evidence from the U.S.A
       Asfaw A, Pana-Cryan R, Rosa R.
       J Saf Res. 2011 ;In Press.
       

   • Program Evaluation  

     • Evaluation of HIV incidence surveillance in New York City, 2006
       Nair HP, Torian LV, Forgione L, Begier EM.
       Public Health Rep. 2011 Jan-Feb;126(1):28-38.
       
   
   

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

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions  

     1. The United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis in the United States
        Dillon CF, Hirsch R.
        Am J Med Sci. 2011 Feb 23.
        
     2. Vulnerable populations and the association between periodontal and chronic kidney disease
        Grubbs V, Plantinga LC, Crews DC, Bibbins-Domingo K, Saran R, Heung M, Patel PR, Burrows NR, Ernst KL, Powe NR.
        Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Feb 24.
        
     3. The Colorectal Cancer Control Program: partnering to increase population level screening
        Joseph DA, Degroff AS, Hayes NS, Wong FL, Plescia M.
        Gastrointest Endosc. 2011 Mar;73(3):429-34.
        
     4. Conceptual framework of the Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project
        Herman EJ.
        J Urban Health. 2011 Feb;88 Suppl 1:7-15.
        

   • Communicable Diseases  

     5. Peramivir: another tool for influenza treatment?
        Jain S, Fry AM.
        Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Mar;52(6):707-9.
        
     6. Gonococcal resistance: are cephalosporins next?
        Kirkcaldy RD, Ballard RC, Dowell D.
        Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2011 Apr;13(2):196-204.
        
     7. Human herpesvirus 8 infection in children and adults in a population-based study in rural Uganda
        Butler LM, Were WA, Balinandi S, Downing R, Dollard S, Neilands TB, Gupta S, Rutherford GW, Mermin J.
        J Infect Dis. 2011 Mar;203(5):625-34.
        
     8. The Blood Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Scientific Research Working Group: mission, progress, and plans
        Simmons G, Glynn SA, Holmberg JA, Coffin JM, Hewlett IK, Lo SC, Mikovits JA, Switzer WM, Linnen JM, Busch MP.
        Transfusion. 2011 Mar 1.
        

   • Community Health Services  

     9. Protecting the public from H1N1 through Points of Dispensing (PODs)
        Rinchiuso-Hasselmann A, McKay RL, Williams CA, Starr DT, Morgenthau BM, Zucker JR, Raphael M.
        Biosecur Bioterror. 2011 Mar 1.
        
     10. Family and home asthma services across the Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project
         Brown AS, Disler S, Burns L, Carlson A, Davis A, Kurian C, Weems D, Wilson K.
         J Urban Health. 2011 Feb;88 Suppl 1:100-12.
         
     11. Assessing community-based approaches to asthma control: the Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project
         Herman EJ, Garbe PL, McGeehin MA.
         J Urban Health. 2011 Feb;88 Suppl 1:1-6.
         

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors  

     12. An acarologic survey and Amblyomma americanum distribution map with implications for tularemia risk in Missouri
         Brown HE, Yates KF, Dietrich G, Macmillan K, Graham CB, Reese SM, Helterbrand WS, Nicholson WL, Blount K, Mead PS, Patrick SL, Eisen RJ.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Mar;84(3):411-419.
         

   • Environmental Health  

     13. Landscape and residential variables associated with plague-endemic villages in the West Nile region of Uganda
         MacMillan K, Enscore RE, Ogen-Odoi A, Borchert JN, Babi N, Amatre G, Atiku LA, Mead PS, Gage KL, Eisen RJ.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Mar;84(3):435-42.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics  

     14. Genome medicine: past, present and future
         Auffray C, Caulfield T, Khoury MJ, Lupski JR, Schwab M, Veenstra T.
         Genome Med. 2011 Jan 31;3(1):6.
         
     15. Computational analysis suggests that lyssavirus glycoprotein gene plays a minor role in viral adaptation
         Tang K, Wu X.
         Int J Evol Biol. 2011 ;2011:143498.
         

   • Health Disparities  

     16. Racial/ethnic disparities in survival among men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Texas
         White A, Coker AL, Du XL, Eggleston KS, Williams M.
         Cancer. 2011 Mar 1;117(5):1080-8.
         

   • Healthcare Associated Infections  

     17. Meaningful measure of performance: a foundation built on valid, reproducible findings from surveillance of health care-associated infections
         Fridkin SK, Olmsted RN.
         Am J Infect Control. 2011 Mar;39(2):87-90.
         
     18. Donor-derived Strongyloides stercoralis infections in renal transplant recipients
         Hamilton KW, Abt PL, Rosenbach MA, Bleicher MB, Levine MS, Mehta J, Montgomery SP, Hasz RD, Bono BR, Tetzlaff MT, Mildiner-Early S, Introcaso CE, Blumberg EA.
         Transplantation. 2011 Feb 23.
         

   • Healthcare Economics  

     19. Health economics of dengue: a systematic literature review and expert panel's assessment
         Beatty ME, Beutels P, Meltzer MI, Shepard DS, Hombach J, Hutubessy R, Dessis D, Coudeville L, Dervaux B, Wichmann O, Margolis HS, Kuritsky JN.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Mar;84(3):473-488.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization  

     20. Predictors of hepatitis A vaccination among young children in the United States
         Byrd KK, Santibanez TA, Chaves SS.
         Vaccine. 2011 Feb 22.
         
     21. Comment on the contribution by Souayah et al., "Guillain-Barre syndrome after Gardasil vaccination: data from Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 2006-2009"
         Slade BA, Gee J, Broder KR, Vellozzi C.
         Vaccine. 2011 Jan 29;29(5):865-6.
         

   • Informatics  

     22. Multiplex immunoassay for Lyme disease using VlsE1-IgG and pepC10-IgM antibodies: improving test performance through bioinformatics
         Porwancher RB, Hagerty CG, Fan J, Landsberg L, Johnson BJ, Kopnitsky M, Steere AC, Kulas K, Wong SJ.
         Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2011 Mar 2.
         
     23. Comparison of global- and local-scale pansharpening for rapid assessment of humanitarian emergencies
         Kim M, Holt JB, Madden M.
         Photogramm Eng Remote Sens. 2011 Jan;77(1):51-63.
         

   • Injury and Violence  

     24. Intimate partner violence perpetration by court-ordered men: distinctions and intersections among physical violence, sexual violence, psychological abuse, and stalking
         Basile KC, Hall JE.
         J Interpers Violence. 2011 Jan;26(2):230-53.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences  

     25. Quantitative mid-infrared diffuse reflection of occupational wood dust exposures
         Chirila MM, Lee T, Flemmer MM, Slaven JE, Harper M.
         Appl Spectrosc. 2011 Mar;65(3):243-9.
         
     26. Identification of cytokeratin-18 as a biomarker of mouse and human hepatosplenic schistosomiasis
         Manivannan B, Rawson P, Jordan TW, Karanja DM, Mwinzi PN, Secor WE, La Flamme AC.
         Infect Immun. 2011 Feb 28.
         
     27. Pre-sampling contamination of filters used in measurements of airborne (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucan based on glucan-specific Limulus amebocyte lysate assay
         Shogren ES, Park JH.
         J Environ Monit. 2011 Feb 25.
         
     28. Quality assurance for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy genetic testing development of a genomic DNA reference material panel
         Kalman L, Leonard J, Gerry N, Tarleton J, Bridges C, Gastier-Foster JM, Pyatt RE, Stonerock E, Johnson MA, Richards CS, Schrijver I, Ma T, Miller VR, Adadevoh Y, Furlong P, Beiswanger C, Toji L.
         J Mol Diagn. 2011 Mar;13(2):167-74.
         
     29. Zoster sine herpete: virologic verification by detection of anti-VZV IgG antibody in CSF
         Blumenthal DT, Shacham-Shmueli E, Bokstein F, Schmid DS, Cohrs RJ, Nagel MA, Mahalingam R, Gilden D.
         Neurology. 2011 Feb 1;76(5):484-5.
         
     30. International study to evaluate PCR methods for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood samples from Chagas disease patients
         Schijman AG, Bisio M, Orellana L, Sued M, Duffy T, Mejia Jaramillo AM, Cura C, Auter F, Veron V, Qvarnstrom Y, Deborggraeve S, Hijar G, Zulantay I, Lucero RH, Velazquez E, Tellez T, Sanchez Leon Z, Galvao L, Nolder D, Monje Rumi M, Levi JE, Ramirez JD, Zorrilla P, Flores M, Jercic MI, Crisante G, Anez N, De Castro AM, Gonzalez CI, Acosta Viana K, Yachelini P, Torrico F, Robello C, Diosque P, Triana Chavez O, Aznar C, Russomando G, Buscher P, Assal A, Guhl F, Sosa Estani S, DaSilva A, Britto C, Luquetti A, Ladzins J.
         PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 ;5(1):e931.
         
     31. Amino acid changes within the E protein hinge region that affect dengue virus type 2 infectivity and fusion
         Butrapet S, Childers T, Moss KJ, Erb SM, Luy BE, Calvert AE, Blair CD, Roehrig JT, Huang CY.
         Virology. 2011 Feb 23.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health  

     32. Prevalence at birth of cleft lip with or without cleft palate: data from the International Perinatal Database of Typical Oral Clefts (IPDTOC)
         Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2011 Jan;48(1):66-81.
         
     33. Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study
         Alverson CJ, Strickland MJ, Gilboa SM, Correa A.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Mar;127(3):e647-53.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health  

     34. Rotating shift work and menstrual cycle characteristics
         Lawson CC, Whelan EA, Lividoti Hibert EN, Spiegelman D, Schernhammer ES, Rich-Edwards JW.
         Epidemiology. 2011 Feb 28.
         
     35. Controlling diesel exhaust exposure inside firehouses
         Baldwin T, Hales T, Niemeier M.
         Fire Eng. 2011 Feb;164(2):63-74.
         
     36. Relationship between comfort and attenuation measurements for two types of earplugs
         Byrne DC, Davis RR, Shaw PB, Specht BM, Holland AN.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):86-92.
         
     37. Introduction to the special issue: Hearing protection state of the art
         Davis RR.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):85.
         
     38. Heat and humidity buildup under earmuff-type hearing protectors
         Davis RR, Shaw PB.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):93-8.
         
     39. Noise-induced hearing loss in agriculture: creating partnerships to overcome barriers and educate the community on prevention
         Ehlers JJ, Graydon PS.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):142-6.
         
     40. Effects of training on hearing protector attenuation
         Murphy WJ, Stephenson MR, Byrne DC, Witt B, Duran J.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):132-41.
         
     41. Hearing loss prevention for carpenters: part 1 - using health communication and health promotion models to develop training that works
         Stephenson CM, Stephenson MR.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):113-21.
         
     42. Hearing loss prevention for carpenters: part 2 - demonstration projects using individualized and group training
         Stephenson MR, Shaw PB, Stephenson CM, Graydon PS.
         Noise Health. 2011 Mar-Apr;13(51):122-31.
         

   • Parasitic Diseases  

     43. Associations between peripheral Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasitemia, human immunodeficiency virus, and concurrent helminthic infection among pregnant women in Malawi
         Thigpen MC, Filler SJ, Kazembe PN, Parise ME, Macheso A, Campbell CH, Newman RD, Steketee RW, Hamel M.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Mar;84(3):379-85.
         

   • Program Evaluation  

     44. A model-driven approach to qualitatively assessing the added value of community coalitions
         Herman EJ, Keller A, Davis A, Ehrensberger R, Telleen S, Kurz R, Nesvold JH, Findley S, Bryant-Stephens T, Benson M, Fierro L.
         J Urban Health. 2011 Feb;88 Suppl 1:130-43.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management  

     45. The International Union for Circumpolar Health - an important actor in circumpolar health
         Bruce M.
         Int J Circumpolar Health. 2011 Feb;70(1):3-5.
         
     46. Tobacco use, exposure to secondhand smoke, and cessation counseling training of dental students around the world
         Warren CW, Sinha DN, Lee J, Lea V, Jones N, Asma S.
         J Dent Educ. 2011 Mar;75(3):385-405.
         

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences  

     47. A combined motivation and parent-child interaction therapy package reduces child welfare recidivism in a randomized dismantling field trial
         Chaffin M, Funderburk B, Bard D, Valle LA, Gurwitch R.
         J Consult Clin Psychol. 2011 Feb;79(1):84-95.
         
   
   

3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Screening  

     48. Effect of preventive messages tailored to family history on health behaviors: the family healthware impact trial
         Ruffin MT, Nease DE, Sen A, Pace WD, Wang C, Acheson LS, Rubinstein WS, et al.
         Ann Fam Med. 2011 Jan-Feb;9(1):3-11.
         
     49. Women's preferences for the delivery of the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme: a cross-sectional survey
         Linsell L, Forbes LJ, Patnick J, Wardle J, Austoker J, Ramirez AJ.
         J Med Screen. 2011 ;17(4):176-80.
         
     50. A community-based screening initiative to identify mothers at risk for postpartum depression
         Horowitz JA, Murphy CA, Gregory KE, Wojcik J.
         J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2011 Jan-Feb;40(1):52-61.
         
   
   

4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media  

     51. Effect of short sleep duration on daily activities - United States, 2005-2008
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 March 4;60(8):239-242.
         
     52. Unhealthy sleep-related behaviors - 12 states, 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 March 4;60(8):233-238.
         
     53. Vital signs: central line - associated blood stream infections - United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 March 4;60(8):243-248.
         

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions  

     54. Breast cancer incidence rates in US women are no longer declining
         Desantis C, Howlader N, Cronin KA, Jemal A.
         Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Feb 28.
         
     55. Body mass index and adult weight gain among reproductive age women with migraine
         Vo M, Ainalem A, Qiu C, Peterlin BL, Aurora SK, Williams MA.
         Headache. 2011 Jan 26.
         

   • Communicable Diseases  

     56. Incidence and clearance of genital human papillomavirus infection in men (HIM): a cohort study
         Giuliano AR, Lee JH, Fulp W, Villa LL, Lazcano E, Papenfuss MR, Abrahamsen M, Salmeron J, Anic GM, Rollison DE, Smith D.
         Lancet. 2011 Feb 28.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health  

     57. Maternal treatment with opioid analgesics and risk for birth defects
         Broussard CS, Rasmussen SA, Reefhuis J, Friedman JM, Jann MW, Riehle-Colarusso T, Honein MA.
         Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Feb 21.
         
     58. Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study
         Alverson CJ, Strickland MJ, Gilboa SM, Correa A.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Mar;127(3):e647-53.
         
   
   

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