Issue 46, November 15, 2010
Vol. 2, Issue: 46, 11/15/10
Welcome to Science Clips, CDC’s new 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 Maternal and Child Health – Autistic Disorders, and Zoonoses – Malaria)
- Public health articles noted in the media
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Top Ten Articles of the Week
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Communicable Diseases
- Contact network structure explains the changing epidemiology of pertussis
Rohani P, Zhong X, King AA.
Science. 2010 Nov 12;330(6006):982-985.
- Contact network structure explains the changing epidemiology of pertussis
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Food Safety
- Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 associated with raw milk, Connecticut, 2008external icon
Guh A, Phan Q, Nelson R, Purviance K, Milardo E, Kinney S, Mshar P, Kasacek W, Cartter M.
Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 8.
- Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 associated with raw milk, Connecticut, 2008external icon
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Health Behavior and Risk
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of US travelers to Asia regarding seasonal influenza and H5N1 avian influenza prevention measuresexternal icon
Yanni EA, Marano N, Han P, Edelson PJ, Blumensaadt S, Becker M, Dwyer S, Crocker K, Daley T, Davis X, Gallagher N, Balaban V, McCarron M, Mounts A, Lipman H, Brown C, Kozarsky P.
J Travel Med. 2010 Nov;17(6):374-81.
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of US travelers to Asia regarding seasonal influenza and H5N1 avian influenza prevention measuresexternal icon
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Health Communication and Education
- School-based randomized controlled trial of an HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for South African adolescentsexternal icon
Jemmott JB, Jemmott LS, O’Leary A, Ngwane Z, Icard LD, Bellamy SL, Jones SF, Landis JR, Heeren GA, Tyler JC, Makiwane MB.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Oct;164(10):923-9.
- School-based randomized controlled trial of an HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for South African adolescentsexternal icon
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Health Disparities
- State disparities in teenage birth rates in the United Statesexternal icon
Mathews TJ, Sutton PD, Hamilton BE, Ventura SJ.
NCHS Data Brief. 2010 Oct(46):1-8.
- State disparities in teenage birth rates in the United Statesexternal icon
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Laboratory Sciences
- Nanobead-based interventions for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosisexternal icon
Griffiths G, Nystrom B, Sable SB, Khuller GK.
Nat Rev Microbiol. 2010 Nov;8(11):827-34.
- Nanobead-based interventions for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosisexternal icon
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Maternal and Child Health – Autistic Disorders
- Genome-scan for IQ discrepancy in autism: evidence for loci on chromosomes 10 and 16external icon
Chapman NH, Estes A, Munson J, Bernier R, Webb SJ, Rothstein JH, Minshew NJ, et al..
Hum Genet. 2010 Oct 21.
- Age of diagnosis for autism: individual and community factors across 10 birth cohortsexternal icon
Fountain C, King MD, Bearman PS.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Oct 25.
- Genome-scan for IQ discrepancy in autism: evidence for loci on chromosomes 10 and 16external icon
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Zoonoses
- West Nile fever characteristics among viremic persons identified through blood donor screeningexternal icon
Zou S, Foster GA, Dodd RY, Petersen LR, Stramer SL.
J Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 1;202(9):1354-61.
- West Nile fever characteristics among viremic persons identified through blood donor screeningexternal icon
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Zoonoses – Malaria
- Using serological measures to monitor changes in malaria transmission in Vanuatuexternal icon
Cook J, Reid H, Iavro J, Kuwahata M, Taleo G, Clements A, McCarthy J, et al..
Malar J. 2010 ;9:169.
- Using serological measures to monitor changes in malaria transmission in Vanuatuexternal icon
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CDC Authored Publications
The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.
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Chronic Diseases and Conditions
- Comprehensive cancer control: progress and accomplishmentsexternal icon
Rochester PW, Townsend JS, Given L, Krebill H, Balderrama S, Vinson C.
Cancer Causes Control. 2010 Nov 11.
- Recent trends in the prevalence of high blood pressure and its treatment and control, 1999-2008external icon
Yoon SS, Ostchega Y, Louis T.
NCHS Data Brief. 2010 Oct(48):1-8.
- Comprehensive cancer control: progress and accomplishmentsexternal icon
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Communicable Diseases
- Sex and geographic patterns of human herpesvirus 8 infection in a nationally representative population-based sample in Ugandaexternal icon
Biryahwaho B, Dollard SC, Pfeiffer RM, Shebl FM, Munuo S, Amin MM, Hladik W, Parsons R, Mbulaiteye SM.
J Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 1;202(9):1347-53.
- Sex and geographic patterns of human herpesvirus 8 infection in a nationally representative population-based sample in Ugandaexternal icon
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Disease Reservoirs and Vectors
- Where have all the vector control programs gone? Part one
Herring ME.
J Environ Health. 2010 Nov;73(4):30-31.
- Where have all the vector control programs gone? Part one
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Epidemiology and Surveillance
- The evolving epidemiology of hepatitis A in the United States: incidence and molecular epidemiology from population-based surveillance, 2005-2007external icon
Klevens RM, Miller JT, Iqbal K, Thomas A, Rizzo EM, Hanson H, Sweet K, Phan Q, Cronquist A, Khudyakov Y, Xia GL, Spradling P.
Arch Intern Med. 2010 Nov 8;170(20):1811-8.
- The evolving epidemiology of hepatitis A in the United States: incidence and molecular epidemiology from population-based surveillance, 2005-2007external icon
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Food Safety
- A prolonged outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections associated with multiple locations of a restaurant chain in Phoenix, Arizona, 2008external icon
Patel MK, Chen S, Pringle J, Russo E, Vinaras J, Weiss J, Anderson S, Sunenshine R, Komatsu K, Schumacher M, Flood D, Theobald L, Bopp C, Wannemuehler K, White P, Angulo FJ, Behravesh CB.
J Food Prot. 2010 Oct;73(10):1858-63.
- A prolonged outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections associated with multiple locations of a restaurant chain in Phoenix, Arizona, 2008external icon
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Genetics and Genomics
- Evolution of canine and equine influenza (H3N8) viruses co-circulating between 2005 and 2008external icon
Rivailler P, Perry IA, Jang Y, Davis CT, Chen LM, Dubovi EJ, Donis RO.
Virology. 2010 Dec 5;408(1):71-9.
- Evolution of canine and equine influenza (H3N8) viruses co-circulating between 2005 and 2008external icon
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Health Behavior and Risk
- HIV-related attitudes and intentions for high-risk, substance-using men who have sex with men: associations and clinical implications for HIV-positive and HIV-negative MSM
Mansergh G, McKirnan DJ, Flores SA, Hudson SM, Koblin BA, Purcell DW, Colfax GN.
J Cogn Psychother. 2010 ;24 (4):281-293.
- Pre-travel health advice-seeking behavior among US international travelers departing from Boston Logan International Airportexternal icon
Larocque RC, Rao SR, Tsibris A, Lawton T, Anita Barry M, Marano N, Brunette G, Yanni E, Ryan ET.
J Travel Med. 2010 Nov;17(6):387-91.
- Trends in low-risk lifestyle factors among adults in the United States: findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 1996-2007external icon
Ford ES, Li C, Zhao G, Pearson WS, Tsai J, Greenlund KJ.
Prev Med. 2010 Nov;51(5):403-7.
- HIV-related attitudes and intentions for high-risk, substance-using men who have sex with men: associations and clinical implications for HIV-positive and HIV-negative MSM
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Healthcare Economics
- The economic implications of influenza vaccination for adults with asthmaexternal icon
Trogdon JG, Nurmagambetov TA, Thompson HF.
Am J Prev Med. 2010 Nov;39(5):403-10.
- The economic implications of influenza vaccination for adults with asthmaexternal icon
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Immunity and Immunization
- Improved protection against avian influenza H5N1 virus by a single vaccination with virus-like particles in skin using microneedlesexternal icon
Song JM, Kim YC, Barlow PG, Hossain MJ, Park KM, Donis RO, Prausnitz MR, Compans RW, Kang SM.
Antiviral Res. 2010 Nov;88(2):244-7.
- Inside this year’s flu vaccine
Bridges C.
Consum Rep Health. 2010 ;22(11):6-6.
- Type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus from patients with acute flaccid paralysis in China: current immunization strategy effectively prevented its sustained transmissionexternal icon
Zhang Y, Yan D, Zhu S, Wen N, Li L, Wang H, Liu J, Ye X, Ding Z, Wang D, Zhu H, Chen L, Hou X, An H, Liang X, Luo H, Kew O, Xu W.
J Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 4.
- Improved protection against avian influenza H5N1 virus by a single vaccination with virus-like particles in skin using microneedlesexternal icon
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Informatics
- Electronic medical record adoption and use in home health and hospiceexternal icon
Bercovitz A, Sengupta M, Jamison P.
NCHS Data Brief. 2010 Sep(45):1-8.
- Electronic medical record adoption and use in home health and hospiceexternal icon
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Laboratory Sciences
- In-vitro oxidation of bisphenol A: Is bisphenol A catechol a suitable biomarker for human exposure to bisphenol A?external icon
Ye X, Zhou X, Needham LL, Calafat AM.
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2010 Nov 9.
- Quadratic variance models for adaptively preprocessing SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry dataexternal icon
Emanuele VA, Gurbaxani BM.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 ;11:512.
- Antimicrobial-resistant Nocardia isolates, United States, 1995-2004external icon
Uhde KB, Pathak S, McCullum Jr I, Jannat-Khah DP, Shadomy SV, Dykewicz CA, Clark TA, Smith TL, Brown JM.
Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 8.
- Correlation of the detection of Clostridium difficile toxins in stools and presence of the clostridia in tissues of childrenexternal icon
Guarner J, Bhatnagar J, Shane AL, Jones T, DeLeon-Carnes MN, Schemankewitz E, Zaki SR.
Hum Pathol. 2010 Nov;41(11):1586-92.
- Invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis strains expressing both serogroup Y and W-135 antigenic specificitiesexternal icon
Rudolph KM, Debyle C, Reasonover A, Zulz T, Law DK, Zhou J, Tsang RS.
J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Nov 10.
- Spatial configuration of hepatitis E virus antigenic domainexternal icon
Xing L, Wang JC, Li TC, Yasutomi Y, Lara J, Khudyakov Y, Schofield D, Emerson SU, Purcell RH, Takeda N, Miyamura T, Cheng RH.
J Virol. 2010 Nov 10.
- Robust gold nanoparticles stabilized by trithiol for application in chemiresistive sensors
Garg N, Mohanty A, Lazarus N, Schultz L, Rozzi TR, Santhanam S, Weiss L, Snyder JL, Fedder GK, Jin R.
Nanotechnology. 2010 ;21(40).
- Real-time fluorescence loop mediated isothermal amplification for the diagnosis of malariaexternal icon
Lucchi NW, Demas A, Narayanan J, Sumari D, Kabanywanyi A, Kachur SP, Barnwell JW, Udhayakumar V.
PLoS ONE. 2010 ;5(10):e13733.
- In-vitro oxidation of bisphenol A: Is bisphenol A catechol a suitable biomarker for human exposure to bisphenol A?external icon
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Occupational Safety and Health
- A method to determine the available UV-C dose for the decontamination of filtering facepiece respiratorsexternal icon
Fisher EM, Shaffer RE.
J Appl Microbiol. 2010 Nov 4.
- Economic burden of dermatitis in US workersexternal icon
Blanciforti LA.
J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Nov;52(11):1045-54.
- Evaluation of methods to determine excessive decline of forced expiratory volume in one second in workers exposed to diacetyl-containing flavoringsexternal icon
Chaisson NF, Kreiss K, Hnizdo E, Hakobyan A, Enright PL.
J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Nov;52(11):1119-23.
- Antioxidants and pulmonary function among police officersexternal icon
Charles LE, Burchfiel CM, Mnatsakanova A, Fekedulegn D, Tinney-Zara C, Joseph PN, Schunemann HJ, Violanti JM, Andrew ME, Ochs-Balcom HM.
J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Nov;52(11):1124-1131.
- Protecting the planet and its people: How do interventions to promote environmental sustainability and occupational safety and health overlap?external icon
Cunningham TR, Galloway-Williams N, Geller ES.
J Safety Res. 2010 Oct;41(5):407-16.
- A method to determine the available UV-C dose for the decontamination of filtering facepiece respiratorsexternal icon
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Public Health Leadership and Management
- U.S. primary care physicians’ lung cancer screening beliefs and recommendationsexternal icon
Klabunde CN, Marcus PM, Silvestri GA, Han PK, Richards TB, Yuan G, Marcus SE, Vernon SW.
Am J Prev Med. 2010 Nov;39(5):411-20.
- U.S. primary care physicians’ lung cancer screening beliefs and recommendationsexternal icon
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Public Health, General
- Health promotion practice and the road ahead: addressing enduring gaps and encouraging greater practice-to-research translationexternal icon
Rivera MD, Birnbaum AS.
Health Promot Pract. 2010 Nov;11(6):779-83.
- Visits to primary care delivery sites: United States, 2008external icon
Hing E, Uddin S.
NCHS Data Brief. 2010 Oct(47):1-8.
- Health promotion practice and the road ahead: addressing enduring gaps and encouraging greater practice-to-research translationexternal icon
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Sciences, General
- Checking the foundation: recent radiobiology and the linear no-threshold theoryexternal icon
Ulsh BA.
Health Phys. 2010 Dec;99(6):747-58.
- Checking the foundation: recent radiobiology and the linear no-threshold theoryexternal icon
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Zoonoses
- An outbreak of dengue fever in St. Croix (US Virgin Islands), 2005external icon
Mohammed H, Ramos M, Armstrong J, Munoz-Jordan J, Arnold-Lewis KO, Ayala A, Clark GG, Tull ES, Beatty ME.
PLoS ONE. 2010 ;5(10):e13729.
- An outbreak of dengue fever in St. Croix (US Virgin Islands), 2005external icon
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Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas
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Maternal and Child Health – Autistic Disorders
- Screening for autism in preterm children: diagnostic utility of the social communication questionnaireexternal icon
Johnson S, Hollis C, Hennessy E, Kochhar P, Wolke D, Marlow N.
Arch Dis Child. 2010 Oct 27.
- Distortions and disconnections: disrupted brain connectivity in autismexternal icon
Wass S.
Brain Cogn. 2010 Nov 3.
- Autism in adults. New biologicial findings and their translational implications to the cost of clinical servicesexternal icon
Murphy DG, Beecham J, Craig M, Ecker C.
Brain Res. 2010 Oct 19.
- Health care expenditures for children with autism spectrum disorders in Medicaidexternal icon
Wang L, Leslie DL.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 Nov;49(11):1165-71.
- Rare familial 16q21 microdeletions under a linkage peak implicate cadherin 8 (CDH8) in susceptibility to autism and learning disabilityexternal icon
Pagnamenta AT, Khan H, Walker S, Gerrelli D, Wing K, Bonaglia MC, Giorda R, et al..
J Med Genet. 2010 Oct 23.
- Altered functional connectivity in frontal lobe circuits is associated with variation in the autism risk gene CNTNAP2external icon
Scott-Van Zeeland AA, Abrahams BS, Alvarez-Retuerto AI, Sonnenblick LI, Rudie JD, Ghahremani D, Mumford JA, et al..
Sci Transl Med. 2010 Nov 3;2(56):56ra80.
- Screening for autism in preterm children: diagnostic utility of the social communication questionnaireexternal icon
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Zoonoses – Malaria
- Scaling up malaria control in Zambia: progress and impact 2005-2008external icon
Chizema-Kawesha E, Miller JM, Steketee RW, Mukonka VM, Mukuka C, Mohamed AD, Miti SK, et al..
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010 Sep;83(3):480-8.
- Malaria elimination in Asia-Pacific: an under-told storyexternal icon
Hsiang MS, Abeyasinghe R, Whittaker M, Feachem RG.
Lancet. 2010 May 8;375(9726):1586-7.
- Revisiting the circulation time of plasmodium falciparum gametocytes: molecular detection methods to estimate the duration of gametocyte carriage and the effect of gametocytocidal drugsexternal icon
Bousema T, Okell L, Shekalaghe S, Griffin JT, Omar S, Sawa P, Sutherland C, et al..
Malar J. 2010 ;9:136.
- How absolute is zero? An evaluation of historical and current definitions of malaria eliminationexternal icon
Cohen JM, Moonen B, Snow RW, Smith DL.
Malar J. 2010 ;9:213.
- Continued decline of malaria in the Gambia with implications for eliminationexternal icon
Ceesay SJ, Casals-Pascual C, Nwakanma DC, Walther M, Gomez-Escobar N, Fulford AJ, Takem EN, et al..
PLoS ONE. 2010 ;5(8):e12242.
- Why functional pre-erythrocytic and bloodstage malaria vaccines fail: a meta-analysis of fully protective immunizations and novel immunological modelexternal icon
Guilbride DL, Gawlinski P, Guilbride PD.
PLoS ONE. 2010 ;5(5):e10685.
- That was then but this is now: malaria research in the time of an eradication agendaexternal icon
Kappe SH, Vaughan AM, Boddey JA, Cowman AF.
Science. 2010 May 14;328(5980):862-6.
- Elimination meets reality in Hispaniolaexternal icon
Roberts L.
Science. 2010 May 14;328(5980):850-1.
- Scaling up malaria control in Zambia: progress and impact 2005-2008external icon
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Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
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MMWR in the Media
- Evaluation of acute hepatitis C infection surveillance — United States, 2008external icon
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Nov 5;59(43):1407-10.
- Increasing prevalence of parent-reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder among children — United States, 2003 and 2007external icon
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Nov 12;59(44):1439-43.
- Evaluation of acute hepatitis C infection surveillance — United States, 2008external icon
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Immunity and Immunization
- Controversy undermines support for state mandates on the human papillomavirus vaccineexternal icon
Gollust SE, Dempsey AF, Lantz PM, Ubel PA, Fowler EF.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Nov;29(11):2041-6.
- Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination and trends in genital warts in Australia: analysis of national sentinel surveillance dataexternal icon
Donovan B, Franklin N, Guy R, Grulich AE, Regan DG, Ali H, Wand H, Fairley CK.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 8.
- Controversy undermines support for state mandates on the human papillomavirus vaccineexternal icon
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