• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications
• Key scientific articles in featured topic areas (this week featuring Statistics as Topic)
• Public health articles noted in the media

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     • Effectiveness of home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for reducing asthma morbidity: a Community Guide systematic review
       Crocker DD, Kinyota S, Dumitru GG, Ligon CB, Herman EJ, Ferdinands JM, Hopkins DP, Lawrence BM, Sipe TA.
       Am J Prev Med. 2011 Aug;41(2 Suppl 1):S5-S32.
       
     • Toxic elements in tobacco and in cigarette smoke: inflammation and sensitization
       Pappas RS.
       Metallomics. 2011 .
       
   • Communicable Diseases
     • Game changers: Why did the scale-up of HIV treatment work despite weak health systems?
       De Cock KM, El-Sadr WM, Ghebreyesus TA.
       J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 01 Aug;57 (SUPPL. 2):S61-S63.
       
     • The effect of handwashing at recommended times with water alone and with soap on child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh: an observational study
       Luby SP, Halder AK, Huda T, Unicomb L, Johnston RB.
       PLoS Med. 2011 Jun;8(6):e1001052.
       
   • Environmental Health
     • Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control study
       Aydin D, Feychting M, Schuz J, Tynes T, Andersen TV, Schmidt LS, Poulsen AH, Johansen C, Prochazka M, Lannering B, Klaeboe L, Eggen T, Jenni D, Grotzer M, Von der Weid N, Kuehni CE, Roosli M.
       J Natl Cancer Inst. 2011 Jul 27.
       
   • Healthcare Economics
     • The cost-effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce sodium intake
       Wang G, Labarthe D.
       J Hypertens. 2011 Jul 22.
       
   • Immunity and Immunization
     • Near elimination of varicella deaths in the US after implementation of the vaccination program
       Marin M, Zhang JX, Seward JF.
       Pediatrics. 2011 Jul 25.
       
   • Informatics
     • Development and utilization of best practice operational guidelines for immunization information systems
       Williams W, Lowery NE, Lyalin D, Lambrecht N, Riddick S, Sutliff C, Papadouka V.
       J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 September/October;17(5):449-456.
       
   • Laboratory Sciences
     • Development of a pigtail macaque model of sexually transmitted infection/HIV coinfection using Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, and SHIV(SF162P3)
       Henning T, Fakile Y, Phillips C, Sweeney E, Mitchell J, Patton D, Sturdevant G, Caldwell HD, Secor WE, Papp J, Hendry RM, McNicholl J, Kersh E.
       J Med Primatol. 2011 Aug;40(4):214-23.
       
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     • Assessing compliance with a county board order for third trimester syphilis screening in Maricopa County, Arizona
       Collier MG, Taylor MM, Winscott MM, Mickey T, England B.
       Sex Reprod Healthc. 2011 Aug;2(3):125-8.
       
   
   
2. CDC Authored Articles
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     1. Economic value of home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for reducing asthma morbidity: a Community Guide systematic review
        Nurmagambetov TA, Barnett SB, Jacob V, Chattopadhyay SK, Hopkins DP, Crocker DD, Dumitru GG, Kinyota S.
        Am J Prev Med. 2011 Aug;41(2 Suppl 1):S33-47.
        
     2. Recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services to decrease asthma morbidity through home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions
        Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
        Am J Prev Med. 2011 Aug;41(2 Suppl 1):S1-4.
        
     3. Evaluating home-based, multicomponent, multi-trigger interventions: your results may vary
        Wilce MA, Garbe PL.
        Am J Prev Med. 2011 Aug;41(2 Suppl 1):S52-4.
        
     4. Reported referral for genetic counseling or BRCA 1/2 testing among United States physicians: a vignette-based study
        Trivers KF, Baldwin LM, Miller JW, Matthews B, Andrilla CH, Lishner DM, Goff BA.
        Cancer. 2011 Jul 25.
        
     5. Population sciences, translational research and the promise of genomics to reduce the burden of cancer in the 21st century
        Khoury M, Clauser SB, Freedman AN, Gillanders EM, Glasgow RE, Klein WM, Schully SD.
        Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Jul 27.
        
     6. Oral contraceptive use and survival in women with invasive breast cancer
        Lu Y, Ma H, Malone KE, Norman SA, Sullivan-Halley J, Strom BL, Simon MS, Marchbanks PA, McDonald JA, West DW, Henderson KD, Deapen D, Ursin G, Bernstein L.
        Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Jul;20(7):1391-7.
        
     7. Chronic kidney disease awareness is low among individuals with clinical markers of kidney dysfunction
        Tuot DS, Plantinga LC, Hsu CY, Jordan R, Burrows NR, Hedgeman E, Yee J, Saran R, Powe NR.
        Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Jul 22.
        
     8. Obesity and survival among black women and white women 35 to 64 years of age at diagnosis with invasive breast cancer
        Lu Y, Ma H, Malone KE, Norman SA, Sullivan-Halley J, Strom BL, Marchbanks PA, Spirtas R, Burkman RT, Deapen D, Folger SG, Simon MS, Press MF, McDonald JA, Bernstein L.
        J Clin Oncol. 2011 Jul 25.
        
   • Communicable Diseases
     9. Immune reconstitution and risk of Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in HIV-infected adults
        Jaffe HW, De Stavola BL, Carpenter LM, Porter K, Cox DR.
        Aids. 2011 Jul 17;25(11):1395-1403.
        
     10. Evaluation of the rapid scale-up of collaborative TB/HIV activities in TB facilities in Rwanda, 2005-2009
         Pevzner ES, Vandebriel G, Lowrance DW, Gasana M, Finlay A.
         BMC Public Health. 2011 Jul 11;11(1):550.
         
     11. Health recommendations for international travel: a review of the evidence base of travel medicine
         LaRocque RC, Jentes ES.
         Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2011 Jul 22.
         
     12. Bridging the divide
         El-Sadr WM, Rabkin M, Atun R, De Cock KM.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 01 Aug;57 (SUPPL. 2):S59-S60.
         
     13. Postexposure prophylaxis of breastfeeding HIV-exposed infants with antiretroviral drugs to age 14 weeks: updated efficacy results of the PEPI-Malawi trial
         Taha TE, Li Q, Hoover DR, Mipando L, Nkanaunena K, Thigpen MC, Taylor A, Kumwenda J, Fowler MG, Mofenson LM, Kumwenda NI.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 01 Aug;57 (4):319-325.
         
     14. Investigation of a researcher's death due to septicemic plague
         Frank KM, Schneewind O, Shieh WJ.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 30;364(26):2563-4.
         
     15. Parent-child communication for youth HIV prevention in Kenya: letter to the editor in response to "voices unheard: youth and sexuality in the wake of HIV prevention in Kenya"
         Miller KS, Lasswell SM, Vandenhoudt H.
         Sex Reprod Healthc. 2011 Aug;2(3):135.
         
     16. Natural infection of guinea pigs exposed to patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis
         Dharmadhikari AS, Basaraba RJ, Van Der Walt ML, Weyer K, Mphahlele M, Venter K, Jensen PA, First MW, Parsons S, McMurray DN, Orme IM, Nardell EA.
         Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2011 Jul;91(4):329-38.
         
   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors
     17. Insect-specific flaviviruses from culex mosquitoes in Colorado, with evidence of vertical transmission
         Bolling BG, Eisen L, Moore CG, Blair CD.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Jul;85(1):169-77.
         
     18. Distribution and phylogenetic comparisons of a novel mosquito flavivirus sequence present in Culex tarsalis mosquitoes from western Canada with viruses isolated in California and Colorado
         Tyler S, Bolling BG, Blair CD, Brault AC, Pabbaraju K, Armijos MV, Clark DC, Calisher CH, Drebot MA.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Jul;85(1):162-8.
         
     19. Transmission efficiency of Francisella tularensis by adult American dog ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)
         Reese SM, Petersen JM, Sheldon SW, Dolan MC, Dietrich G, Piesman J, Eisen RJ.
         J Med Entomol. 2011 ;48(4):884-890.
         
     20. Host and viral ecology determine bat rabies seasonality and maintenance
         George DB, Webb CT, Farnsworth ML, O'Shea TJ, Bowen RA, Smith DL, Stanley TR, Ellison LE, Rupprecht CE.
         Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jun 21;108(25):10208-13.
         
   • Environmental Health
     21. Irrigation water issues potentially related to the 2006 multistate E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with spinach
         Gelting RJ, Baloch MA, Zarate-Bermudez MA, Selman C.
         Agr Water Manage. 2011 ;98(9):1395-1402.
         
     22. Serum paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) genotype and exposure to organophosphorous insectides - is there a high-risk population?
         Matthews AR, Sutter ME, Rentz DE.
         J Med Toxicol. 2011 Jul 23.
         
     23. Urinary trichlorophenol levels and increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among US school-aged children
         Xu X, Nembhard WN, Kan H, Kearney G, Zhang ZJ, Talbott EO.
         Occup Environ Med. 2011 Aug;68(8):557-61.
         
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     24. The National Tuberculosis Surveillance System training program to ensure accuracy of tuberculosis data
         Magee E, Tryon C, Forbes A, Heath B, Manangan L.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 Sep-Oct;17(5):427-30.
         
     25. Standard terminology for fetal, infant, and perinatal deaths
         Barfield WD, Papile LA, Baley JE, Bhutani VK, Carlo WA, Cummings JJ, Kumar P, Polin RA, Tan RC, Watterberg KL, Barth Jr WH, Jeffries AL, Mainous RO, Raju TN, Wang KS, Couto J.
         Pediatrics. 2011 July;128 (1):177-181.
         
   • Health Behavior and Risk
     26. Emotional/behavioral difficulties and adolescent obesity: effect of sex and Hispanic origin/race
         Pastor PN, Reuben CA.
         Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jul 26.
         
     27. Sexual risk behaviors among African-American and Hispanic women in five counties in the Southeastern United States: 2008-2009
         McLellan-Lemal E, O'Daniels CM, Marks G, Villar-Loubet O, Doherty IA, Simpson C, Weiss S, Hanna B, Adimora AA, White BL, Wheeling JT, Borkowf CB.
         Womens Health Issues. 2011 Jul 23.
         
   • Health Communication and Education
     28. Primary care physician reports of amount of time spent with male patients in prostate cancer screening discussions
         Hall IJ, Ross LE, Taylor YJ, Richardson LC.
         J Prim Care Community Health. 2011 ;2(3):192-204.
         
   • Healthcare Economics
     29. Health economics of cardiovascular disease: defining the research agenda
         Ferdinand KC, Orenstein D, Hong Y, Journigan JG, Trogdon J, Bowman J, Zohrabian A, Kilgore M, White A, Mokdad A, Pechacek TF, Goetzel RZ, Labarthe DR, Puckrein GA, Finkelstein E, Wang G, French ME, Vaccarino V.
         CVD Prev Control. 2011 September;6 (3):91-100.
         
     30. Expanding the generation and use of economic and financial data to improve HIV program planning and efficiency: a global perspective
         Holmes CB, Atun R, Avila C, Blandford JM.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 01 Aug;57 (SUPPL. 2):S104-S108.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     31. Thimerosal exposure in early life and neuropsychological outcomes 7-10 years later
         Barile JP, Kuperminc GP, Weintraub ES, Mink JW, Thompson WW.
         J Pediatr Psychol. 2011 Jul 23.
         
     32. The major determinant of attenuation in mice of the Candid1 vaccine for Argentine hemorrhagic fever is located in the G2 glycoprotein transmembrane domain
         Albarino CG, Bird BH, Chakrabarti AK, Dodd KA, Flint M, Bergeron E, White DM, Nichol ST.
         J Virol. 2011 Jul 27.
         
     33. Hepatitis B vaccination coverage among high-risk adults 18-49 years, U.S., 2009
         Lu PJ, Byrd KK, Murphy TV, Weinbaum C.
         Vaccine. 2011 Jul 20.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     34. Subtyping salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis isolates from different sources by using sequence typing based on virulence genes and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs)
         Liu F, Kariyawasam S, Jayarao BM, Barrangou R, Gerner-Smidt P, Ribot EM, Knabel SJ, Dudley EG.
         Appl Environ Microbiol. 2011 Jul;77(13):4520-6.
         
     35. An alternative in vivo method to refine the mouse bioassay for botulinum toxin detection
         Wilder-Kofie TD, Luquez C, Adler M, Dykes JK, Coleman JD, Maslanka SE.
         Comp Med. 2011 ;61(3):235-242.
         
     36. Haptenation: chemical reactivity and protein binding
         Chipinda I, Hettick JM, Siegel PD.
         J Allergy (Cairo). 2011 ;2011:839682.
         
     37. Inhalation of ortho-phthalaldehyde vapor causes respiratory sensitization in mice
         Johnson VJ, Reynolds JS, Wang W, Fluharty K, Yucesoy B.
         J Allergy (Cairo). 2011 ;2011:751052.
         
     38. Uric acid as a potential cue to screen for iron overload
         Mainous AG, Knoll ME, Everett CJ, Matheson EM, Hulihan MM, Grant AM.
         J Am Board Fam Med. 2011 Jul-Aug;24(4):415-21.
         
     39. Pulmonary fibrotic response to aspiration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes
         Mercer RR, Hubbs AF, Scabilloni JF, Wang L, Battelli LA, Friend S, Castranova V, Porter DW.
         Part Fibre Toxicol. 2011 Jul 22;8(1):21.
         
     40. Noninvasive pulmonary function screening in spontaneously breathing rodents: an engineering systems perspective
         Reynolds JS, Frazer DG.
         Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Sep;131(3):359-68.
         
     41. Detection of North American orthopoxviruses by real time-PCR
         Gallardo-Romero NF, Velasco-Villa A, Weiss SL, Emerson GL, Carroll DS, Hughes CM, Li Y, Karem KL, Damon IK, Olson VA.
         Virol J. 2011 ;8:313.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     42. Associations between periconceptional alcohol consumption and craniosynostosis, omphalocele, and gastroschisis
         Richardson S, Browne ML, Rasmussen SA, Druschel CM, Sun L, Jabs EW, Romitti PA.
         Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Jul;91(7):623-630.
         
     43. Antiretroviral use during pregnancy and risk of preterm delivery: more questions than answers
         Kourtis AP, Fowler MG.
         J Infect Dis. 2011 Aug;204(4):493-4.
         
     44. Prenatal versus postnatal repair of myelomeningocele
         Reefhuis J, Rasmussen SA, Honein MA.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 30;364(26):2555; author reply 2556.
         
   • Nutritional Sciences
     45. Vitamin D status is associated with arterial stiffness and vascular dysfunction in healthy humans
         Al Mheid I, Patel R, Murrow J, Morris A, Rahman A, Fike L, Kavtaradze N, Uphoff I, Hooper C, Tangpricha V, Alexander RW, Brigham K, Quyyumi AA.
         J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 5;58(2):186-92.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     46. Sleep duration and biomarkers of metabolic function among police officers
         Charles LE, Gu JK, Andrew ME, Violanti JM, Fekedulegn D, Burchfiel CM.
         J Occup Environ Med. 2011 Jul 21.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining
     47. Aerosol sensing technologies in the mining industry
         Janisko SJ, Noll JD, Cauda EE.
         Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2011 ;8029:80291E.
         
   • Parasitic Diseases
     48. Malaria in Kakuma refugee camp, Turkana, Kenya: facilitation of Anopheles arabiensis vector populations by installed water distribution and catchment systems
         Nabie Bayoh M, Akhwale W, Ombok M, Sang D, Engoki SC, Koros D, Walker ED, Williams HA, Burke H, Armstrong GL, Cetron MS, Weinberg M, Breiman R, Hamel MJ.
         Malar J. 2011 ;10:149.
         
   • Reproductive Health
     49. Multi-city assessment of lifetime pregnancy involvement among street youth, Ukraine
         Zapata LB, Kissin DM, Robbins CL, Finnerty E, Skipalska H, Yorick RV, Jamieson DJ, Marchbanks PA, Hillis SD.
         J Urban Health. 2011 Jul 21.
         
   • Statistics as Topic
     50. Discrete-time semi-Markov modeling of human papillomavirus persistence
         Mitchell CE, Hudgens MG, King CC, Cu-Uvin S, Lo Y, Rompalo A, Sobel J, Smith JS.
         Stat Med. 2011 Jul 30;30(17):2160-70.
         
   
   
3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas
   • Statistics as Topic
     51. Significance testing as perverse probabilistic reasoning
         Westover MB, Westover KD, Bianchi MT.
         BMC Med. 2011 ;9:20.
         
     52. Separated at birth: statisticians, social scientists, and causality in health services research
         Dowd BE.
         Health Serv Res. 2011 Apr;46(2):397-420.
         
     53. Commentary on Bryan Dowd's paper "separated at birth: statisticians, social scientists, and causality in health services research"
         O'Malley AJ.
         Health Serv Res. 2011 Apr;46(2):430-6.
         
     54. Statistics and causality: separated to reunite-commentary on Bryan Dowd's "separated at birth"
         Pearl J.
         Health Serv Res. 2011 Apr;46(2):421-9.
         
     55. A space-time scan statistic for detecting emerging outbreaks
         Tango T, Takahashi K, Kohriyama K.
         Biometrics. 2011 Mar;67(1):106-15.
         
     56. Statistical inference for a two-stage outcome-dependent sampling design with a continuous outcome
         Zhou H, Song R, Wu Y, Qin J.
         Biometrics. 2011 Mar;67(1):194-202.
         
     57. Comparison of intraclass correlation coefficient estimates and standard errors between using cross-sectional and repeated measurement data: the Safety Check cluster randomized trial
         Ip EH, Wasserman R, Barkin S.
         Contemp Clin Trials. 2011 Mar;32(2):225-32.
         
     58. Socio-geographical factors in vulnerability to dengue in Thai villages: a spatial regression analysis
         Tipayamongkholgul M, Lisakulruk S.
         Geospat Health. 2011 May;5(2):191-8.
         
     59. A social-cognitive model of pandemic influenza H1N1 risk perception and recommended behaviors in Italy
         Prati G, Pietrantoni L, Zani B.
         Risk Anal. 2011 Apr;31(4):645-56.
         
     60. Parametric mixture models to evaluate and summarize hazard ratios in the presence of competing risks with time-dependent hazards and delayed entry
         Lau B, Cole SR, Gange SJ.
         Stat Med. 2011 Mar 15;30(6):654-65.
         
     61. On Gaussian Markov random fields and Bayesian disease mapping
         MacNab YC.
         Stat Methods Med Res. 2011 Feb;20(1):49-68.
         
   
   
4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   • MMWR in the Media
     62. HIV-2 infection surveillance --- United States, 1987--2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Jul 29;60:985-8.
         
     63. Nonfatal sports and recreation heat illness treated in hospital emergency departments --- United States, 2001--2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Jul 29;60:977-80.
         
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     64. Prevalence of gout and hyperuricemia in the US general population
         Zhu Y, Pandya B, Choi H.
         Arthritis Rheum. 2011 .
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     65. Change in prevalence of chronic conditions between childhood and adolescence among extremely low-birth-weight children
         Hack M, Schluchter M, Andreias L, Margevicius S, Taylor HG, Drotar D, Cuttler L.
         JAMA. 2011 Jul 27;306(4):394-401.
         
   
   

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