Issue 18, May 2, 2011

Vol. 3, Issue: 18, 5/2/11

Welcome to Science Clips, CDC's weekly digest!

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 Environmental Health - Radiation)
• Public health articles noted in the media

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Investigation of a group A streptococcal outbreak among residents of a long-term acute care hospital
       Deutscher M, Schillie S, Gould C, Baumbach J, Mueller M, Avery C, Van Beneden CA.
       Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Apr;52(8):988-94.
       
     • Use of a WHO-recommended algorithm to reduce mortality in seriously ill patients with HIV infection and smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa: an observational cohort study
       Holtz TH, Kabera G, Mthiyane T, Zingoni T, Nadesan S, Ross D, Allen J, Chideya S, Sunpath H, Rustomjee R.
       Lancet Infect Dis. 2011 Apr 20.
       

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     • Reduced mortality in injured adults transported by helicopter emergency medical services
       Sullivent EE, Faul M, Wald MM.
       Prehosp Emerg Care. 2011 Apr 27.
       

   • Drug Safety

     • Levothyroxine dose and risk of fractures in older adults: nested case-control study
       Turner M, Camacho X, Fischer H, Austin P, Anderson G, Rochon P, Liscombe L.
       BMJ. 2011 ;342(d2238).
       

   • Environmental Health - Radiation

     • Requirements for radiation emergency urine bioassay techniques for the public and first responders
       Li C, Vlahovich S, Dai X, Richardson RB, Daka JN, Kramer GH.
       Health Phys. 2010 Nov;99(5):702-7.
       
     • Training healthcare personnel for mass-casualty incidents in a virtual emergency department: VED II
       Heinrichs WL, Youngblood P, Harter P, Kusumoto L, Dev P.
       Prehosp Disaster Med. 2010 Sep-Oct;25(5):424-32.
       

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     • Validation of algorithm to identify American Indian/Alaska Native pregnant women at risk from pandemic H1N1 influenza
       Penman-Aguilar A, Tucker MJ, Groom AV, Reilley BA, Klepacki S, Cullen T, Gebremariam C, Redd JT.
       Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Mar 9.
       

   • Laboratory Sciences

     • Applied genomics: Data mining reveals species-specific malaria diagnostic targets more sensitive than 18S rRNA
       Demas A, Oberstaller J, Debarry J, Lucchi NW, Srinivasamoorthy G, Sumari D, Kabanywanyi AM, Villegas L, Escalante AA, Kachur SP, Barnwell JW, Peterson DS, Udhayakumar V, Kissinger JC.
       J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Apr 27.
       

   • Parasitic Diseases

     • Protective efficacy of malaria case management and intermittent preventive treatment for preventing malaria mortality in children: a systematic review for the Lives Saved Tool
       Thwing J, Eisele TP, Steketee RW.
       BMC Public Health. 2011 ;11 Suppl 3:S14.
       

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     • Psychological distress severity of adults reporting receipt of treatment for mental health problems in the BRFSS
       Dhingra SS, Zack MM, Strine TW, Druss BG, Berry JT, Balluz LS.
       Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Apr;62(4):396-403.
       
   
   

2. CDC Authored Publications

   
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     1. Trends in mortality from all causes and cardiovascular disease among hypertensive and nonhypertensive adults in the United States
        Ford ES.
        Circulation. 2011 Apr 26;123(16):1737-44.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     2. Effect on transmission of HIV-1 resistance of timing of implementation of viral load monitoring to determine switches from first to second-line antiretroviral regimens in resource-limited settings
        Phillips AN, Pillay D, Garnett G, Bennett D, Vitoria M, Cambiano V, Lundgren J.
        Aids. 2011 Mar 27;25(6):843-50.
        
     3. Male to female and female to male transgender persons have different sexual risk behaviors yet similar rates of STDs and HIV
        Stephens SC, Bernstein KT, Philip SS.
        AIDS Behav. 2011 Apr;15(3):683-6.
        
     4. Pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) in 71 critically ill pregnant women in California
        Ellington SR, Hartman LK, Acosta M, Martinez-Romo M, Rubinson L, Jamieson DJ, Louie J.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Apr 21.
        
     5. Disease transmission and passenger behaviors during a high morbidity norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship, January 2009
        Wikswo ME, Cortes J, Hall AJ, Vaughan G, Howard C, Gregoricus N, Cramer EH.
        Clin Infect Dis. 2011 May;52(9):1116-22.
        
     6. Long-term follow-up and survival of antiretroviral-naive patients with cryptococcal meningitis in the pre-antiretroviral therapy era, Gauteng Province, South Africa
        Park BJ, Shetty S, Ahlquist A, Greenbaum A, Miller JL, Motsi A, McCarthy K, Govender N.
        Int J STD AIDS. 2011 Apr;22(4):199-203.
        
     7. Tuberculosis in older adults in the United States, 1993-2008
        Pratt RH, Winston CA, Kammerer JS, Armstrong LR.
        J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Apr 21.
        
     8. Low-frequency HIV-1 drug resistance mutations and risk of NNRTI-based antiretroviral treatment failure: a systematic review and pooled analysis
        Li JZ, Paredes R, Ribaudo HJ, Svarovskaia ES, Metzner KJ, Kozal MJ, Hullsiek KH, Balduin M, Jakobsen MR, Geretti AM, Thiebaut R, Ostergaard L, Masquelier B, Johnson JA, Miller MD, Kuritzkes DR.
        JAMA. 2011 Apr 6;305(13):1327-35.
        

   • Environmental Health

     9. Evaluation of exposure reduction to indoor air pollution in stove intervention projects in Peru by urinary biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites
        Li Z, Sjodin A, Romanoff LC, Horton K, Fitzgerald CL, Eppler A, Aguilar-Villalobos M, Naeher LP.
        Environ Int. 2011 Apr 25.
        

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     10. A comparison of depression prevalence estimates measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire with two administration modes: computer-assisted telephone interviewing versus computer-assisted personal interviewing
         Li C, Ford ES, Zhao G, Tsai J, Balluz LS.
         Int J Public Health. 2011 Apr 27.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     11. Implementation of the first worldwide quality assurance program for cystic fibrosis multiple mutation detection in population-based screening
         Earley MC, Laxova A, Farrell PM, Driscoll-Dunn R, Cordovado S, Mogayzel PJ, Konstan MW, Hannon WH.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2011 Apr 14.
         
     12. Subclinical reactivation of varicella zoster virus in all stages of HIV infection
         Birlea M, Arendt G, Orhan E, Schmid DS, Bellini WJ, Schmidt C, Gilden D, Cohrs RJ.
         J Neurol Sci. 2011 May 15;304(1-2):22-4.
         
     13. Temporal variations in the hepatitis C virus intra-host population during chronic infection
         Ramachandran S, Campo DS, Dimitrova ZE, Xia GL, Purdy MA, Khudyakov YE.
         J Virol. 2011 Apr 27.
         
     14. The ABRF Proteomics Research Group studies: educational exercises for qualitative and quantitative proteomic analyses
         Friedman DB, Andacht TM, Bunger MK, Chien AS, Hawke DH, Krijgsveld J, Lane WS, Lilley KS, Maccoss MJ, Moritz RL, Settlage RE, Sherman NE, Weintraub ST, Witkowska HE, Yates NA, Turck CW.
         Proteomics. 2011 Apr;11(8):1371-81.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     15. Singleton preterm birth: risk factors and association with assisted reproductive technology
         Tepper NK, Farr SL, Cohen BB, Nannini A, Zhang Z, Anderson JE, Jamieson DJ, Macaluso M.
         Matern Child Health J. 2011 Apr 23.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     16. AORN Ergonomic Tool 2: Positioning and repositioning the supine patient on the OR bed
         Waters T, Short M, Lloyd J, Baptiste A, Butler L, Petersen C, Nelson A.
         AORN J. 2011 Apr;93(4):445-9.
         
     17. Development of retrospective quantitative and qualitative job-exposure matrices for exposures at a beryllium processing facility
         Couch JR, Petersen M, Rice C, Schubauer-Berigan MK.
         Occup Environ Med. 2011 May;68(5):361-5.
         
     18. Associations of occupation, job control and job demands with intima-media thickness: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
         Fujishiro K, Diez Roux AV, Landsbergis P, Baron S, Barr RG, Kaufman JD, Polak JF, Stukovsky KH.
         Occup Environ Med. 2011 May;68(5):319-26.
         
     19. Inhalation exposure of gas-metal arc stainless steel welding fume increased atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E knockout mice
         Erdely A, Hulderman T, Salmen-Muniz R, Liston A, Zeidler-Erdely PC, Chen BT, Stone S, Frazer DG, Antonini JM, Simeonova PP.
         Toxicol Lett. 2011 Apr 14.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     20. Does shortening the training on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines reduce its effectiveness? A systematic review
         Rowe AK, Rowe SY, Holloway KA, Ivanovska V, Muhe L, Lambrechts T.
         Health Policy Plan. 2011 Apr 23.
         

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     21. Estimating the effect of smoking on slowdowns in mortality declines in developed countries
         Rostron BL, Wilmoth JR.
         Demography. 2011 Apr 26.
         

   • Zoonoses

     22. Genomic analysis reveals Nairobi sheep disease virus to be highly diverse and present in both Africa, and in India in the form of the Ganjam virus variant
         Yadav PD, Vincent MJ, Khristova M, Kale C, Nichol ST, Mishra AC, Mourya DT.
         Infect Genet Evol. 2011 Apr 12.
         
     23. Live attenuated rabies virus co-infected with street rabies virus protects animals against rabies
         Wu X, Franka R, Henderson H, Rupprecht CE.
         Vaccine. 2011 Apr 20.
         
   
   

3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas

   • Environmental Health - Radiation

     24. Triage and treatment tools for use in a scarce resources-crisis standards of care setting after a nuclear detonation
         Coleman CN, Weinstock DM, Casagrande R, Hick JL, Bader JL, Chang F, Nemhauser JB, et al.
         Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2011 Mar;5 Suppl 1:S111-21.
         
     25. Rural and suburban population surge following detonation of an improvised nuclear device: a new model to estimate impact
         Meit M, Redlener I, Briggs TW, Kwanisai M, Culp D, Abramson DM.
         Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2011 Mar;5 Suppl 1:S143-50.
         
     26. Three plutonium chelation cases at Los Alamos national laboratory
         Bertelli L, Waters TL, Miller G, Gadd MS, Eaton MC, Guilmette RA.
         Health Phys. 2010 Oct;99(4):532-8.
         
     27. A mobile bioassay laboratory for the assessment of internal doses based on in vivo and in vitro measurements
         Dantas BM, Lucena EA, Dantas AL, Santos MS, Juliao LQ, Melo DR, Sousa WO, et al.
         Health Phys. 2010 Oct;99(4):449-52.
         
     28. Integration of uncertainties into internal contamination monitoring
         Davesne E, Casanova P, Chojnacki E, Paquet F, Blanchardon E.
         Health Phys. 2010 Oct;99(4):517-22.
         
     29. Creation and use of adjustable 3D phantoms: application for the lung monitoring of female workers
         Farah J, Broggio D, Franck D.
         Health Phys. 2010 Nov;99(5):649-61.
         
     30. Preliminary clinical findings on NEUMUNE as a potential treatment for acute radiation syndrome
         Stickney DR, Groothuis JR, Ahlem C, Kennedy M, Miller BS, Onizuka-Handa N, Schlangen KM, et al.
         J Radiol Prot. 2010 Dec;30(4):687-98.
         
     31. Visulation and quantification of lung content of radionuclides associated with nuclear and radiological emergencies
         Hansson M, Raaf CL.
         Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2011 Dec 31.
         
     32. Combined hardware--software considerations for triage of internally contaminated personnel
         Waller EJ.
         Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2010 Nov;142(1):24-8.
         
     33. Cerebrovascular diseases in the cohort of workers first employed at Mayak PA in 1948-1958
         Azizova TV, Muirhead CR, Druzhinina MB, Grigoryeva ES, Vlasenko EV, Sumina MV, O'Hagan JA, et al.
         Radiat Res. 2010 Dec;174(6):851-64.
         
   
   

4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media

     34. Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses among older workers - United States, 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 April 29;60(16):503-508.
         
     35. Occupational highway transportation deaths - United States, 2003-2008
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 April 29;60(16):497-502.
         
     36. Prevalence of obesity among adults with arthritis - United States, 2003-2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 April 29;60(16):509-513.
         

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     37. Trends in mortality from all causes and cardiovascular disease among hypertensive and nonhypertensive adults in the United States
         Ford ES.
         Circulation. 2011 Apr 26;123(16):1737-44.
         

   • Communicable Diseases

     38. Upward trend in dengue incidence among hospitalized patients, United States
         Streit J, Yang M, Cavanaugh J, Polgreen P.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 May;17(5):914-916.
         
   
   

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