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• CDC-authored publications
• Key scientific articles in featured topic areas (this week featuring Public Health Law)
• Public health articles noted in the media

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     • Breast cancer statistics, 2011
       Desantis C, Siegel R, Bandi P, Jemal A.
       CA Cancer J Clin. 2011 Oct 3.
       
     • Progression of carotid intima-media thickness in a contemporary human immunodeficiency virus cohort
       Baker JV, Henry WK, Patel P, Bush TJ, Conley LJ, Mack WJ, Overton ET, Budoff M, Hammer J, Carpenter CC, Hodis HN, Brooks JT.
       Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;53(8):826-835.
       
   • Environmental Health
     • Remediating buildings damaged by dampness and mould for preventing or reducing respiratory tract symptoms, infections and asthma
       Sauni R, Uitti J, Jauhiainen M, Kreiss K, Sigsgaard T, Verbeek JH.
       Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 ;9:CD007897.
       
   • Immunity and Immunization
     • Measles elimination in the Americas: a comparison between countries with a one-dose and two-dose routine vaccination schedule
       Sever AE, Rainey JJ, Zell ER, Hennessey K, Uzicanin A, Castillo-Solorzano C, Dietz V.
       J Infect Dis. 2011 Sep;204 Suppl 2:S748-55.
       
   • Injury and Violence
     • Public health efforts to build a surveillance system for child maltreatment mortality: lessons learned for stakeholder engagement
       Smith LR, Gibbs D, Wetterhall S, Schnitzer PG, Farris T, Crosby AE, Leeb RT.
       J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 Nov;17(6):542-9.
       
   • Laboratory Sciences
     • The stability of markers in dried-blood spots for recommended newborn screening disorders in the United States
       Adam BW, Hall EM, Sternberg M, Lim TH, Flores SR, O'Brien S, Simms D, Li LX, De Jesus VR, Hannon WH.
       Clin Biochem. 2011 Sep 21.
       
     • Development of an improved methodology to detect infectious airborne influenza virus using the NIOSH bioaerosol sampler
       Cao G, Noti JD, Blachere FM, Lindsley WG, Beezhold DH.
       J Environ Monit. 2011 Oct 5.
       
   • Maternal and Child Health
     • A reversal in reductions of child mortality in western Kenya, 2003-2009
       Hamel MJ, Adazu K, Obor D, Sewe M, Vulule J, Williamson JM, Slutsker L, Feikin DR, Laserson KF.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Oct;85(4):597-605.
       
   • Nutritional Sciences
     • Home fortification of foods with multiple micronutrient powders for health and nutrition in children under two years of age
       De-Regil LM, Suchdev PS, Vist GE, Walleser S, Pena-Rosas JP.
       Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 ;9:CD008959.
       
   • Parasitic Diseases
     • Presumptive treatment to reduce imported malaria among refugees from east Africa resettling in the United States
       Phares CR, Kapella BK, Doney AC, Arguin PM, Green M, Mekonnen L, Galev A, Weinberg M, Stauffer WM.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Oct;85(4):612-5.
       
   
   
2. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     1. Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries
        Olds T, Maher C, Zumin S, Peneau S, Lioret S, Castetbon K, Bellisle , de Wilde J, Hohepa M, Maddison R, Lissner L, Sjoberg A, Zimmermann M, Aeberli I, Ogden C, Flegal K, Summerbell C.
        Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Oct;6(5-6):342-60.
        
     2. Associations between sleep disorders, sleep duration, quality of sleep, and hypertension: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005 to 2008
        Bansil P, Kuklina EV, Merritt RK, Yoon PW.
        J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2011 Oct;13(10):739-43.
        
   • Communicable Diseases
     3. The spectrum of engagement in HIV care: do more than 19% of HIV-infected persons in the US have undetectable viral load?
        Marks G, Gardner LI, Craw J, Giordano TP, Mugavero MJ, Keruly JC, Wilson TE, Metsch LR, Drainoni ML, Malitz F.
        Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Oct 5.
        
     4. Performance of premarket rapid hepatitis C virus antibody assays in 4 National Human Immunodeficiency Virus Behavioral Surveillance System sites
        Smith BD, Teshale E, Jewett A, Weinbaum CM, Neaigus A, Hagan H, Jenness SM, Melville SK, Burt R, Thiede H, Al-Tayyib A, Pannala PR, Miles IW, Oster AM, Smith A, Finlayson T, Bowles KE, Dinenno EA.
        Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;53(8):780-6.
        
     5. A pre-pandemic outbreak of triple-reassortant swine influenza virus infection among university students, South Dakota, 2008
        Dawood FS, Dong L, Liu F, Blau DM, Peebles PJ, Lu X, Wagers L, Oakland B, Zielenski M, Daly R, Horan V, Swenson SL, Schmitt BJ, Hancock K, Katz JM, Bridges C, Kightlinger L, Finelli L.
        J Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;204(8):1165-71.
        
     6. Enrollment characteristics and risk behaviors of injection drug users participating in the Bangkok Tenofovir Study, Thailand
        Martin M, Vanichseni S, Suntharasamai P, Sangkum U, Chuachoowong R, Mock PA, Leethochawalit M, Chiamwongpaet S, Kittimunkong S, van Griensven F, McNicholl JM, Paxton L, Choopanya K.
        PLoS One. 2011 ;6(9):e25127.
        
     7. Biological feasibility of measles eradication
        Bellini WJ, Rota PA.
        Virus Res. 2011 Sep 22.
        
   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors
     8. Competency of reptiles and amphibians for eastern equine encephalitis virus
        White G, Ottendorfer C, Graham S, Unnasch TR.
        Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Sep;85(3):421-5.
        
   • Environmental Health
     9. Microbiologic effectiveness of boiling and safe water storage in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
        Sodha SV, Menon M, Trivedi K, Ati A, Figueroa ME, Ainslie R, Wannemuehler K, Quick R.
        J Water Health. 2011 Sep;9(3):577-85.
        
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     10. Multisite virological influenza surveillance in India: 2004-2008
         Chadha MS, Broor S, Gunasekaran P, Potdar VA, Krishnan A, Chawla-Sarkar M, Biswas D, Abraham AM, Jalgaonkar SV, Kaur H, Klimov A, Lal RB, Moen A, Kant L, Mishra AC.
         Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2011 Sep 29.
         
     11. Needle in a haystack: the yield of syphilis outreach screening at 5 US sites-2000 to 2007
         Lewis FM, Schillinger JA, Taylor M, Brewer TH, Blank S, Mickey T, Furness BW, Anschuetz GL, Salmon ME, Peterman TA.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 Nov;17(6):513-521.
         
   • Food Safety
     12. Eosinophilic meningitis attributable to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection in Hawaii: clinical characteristics and potential exposures
         Hochberg NS, Blackburn BG, Park SY, Sejvar JJ, Effler PV, Herwaldt BL.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Oct;85(4):685-690.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     13. Qualitative assessment of study materials and communication strategies used in studies that include DNA collection
         Jenkins MM, Reed-Gross E, Barfield WD, Prue CE, Gallagher ML, Rasmussen SA, Honein MA.
         Am J Med Genet A. 2011 Oct 4.
         
     14. Diverse mutational mechanisms cause pathogenic subtelomeric rearrangements
         Luo Y, Hermetz KE, Jackson JM, Mulle JG, Dodd A, Tsuchiya KD, Ballif BC, Shaffer LG, Cody JD, Ledbetter DH, Martin CL, Rudd MK.
         Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Oct 1;20(19):3769-78.
         
   • Health Behavior and Risk
     15. Associations of medically documented psychiatric diagnoses and risky health behaviors in highly active antiretroviral therapy-experienced perinatally HIV-infected youth
         Kapetanovic S, Wiegand RE, Dominguez K, Blumberg D, Bohannon B, Wheeling J, Rutstein R.
         AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2011 Aug;25(8):493-501.
         
   • Health Communication and Education
     16. Why take an HIV test? Concerns, benefits, and strategies to promote HIV testing among low-income heterosexual African American young adults
         Wallace SA, McLellan-Lemal E, Harris MJ, Townsend TG, Miller KS.
         Health Educ Behav. 2011 Oct;38(5):462-70.
         
     17. Analysis of participatory photojournalism in a widely disseminated skin cancer prevention program
         Hall D, Kline M, Glanz K.
         Health Promot Pract. 2011 Sep;12(5):666-72.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     18. Comparative immunogenicity and cross-clade protective efficacy of mammalian cell-grown inactivated and live attenuated H5N1 reassortant vaccines in ferrets
         Gustin KM, Maines TR, Belser JA, van Hoeven N, Lu X, Dong L, Isakova-Sivak I, Chen LM, Voeten JT, Heldens JG, van den Bosch H, Cox NJ, Tumpey TM, Klimov AI, Rudenko L, Donis RO, Katz JM.
         J Infect Dis. 2011 Sep 28.
         
     19. Haiti 2007-2008 national measles-rubella vaccination campaign: implications for rubella elimination
         Rainey JJ, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Magloire R, Kananda G, Lee CE, Chamouillet H, Lacapere F, Mung K, Luman ET.
         J Infect Dis. 2011 Sep;204 Suppl 2:S616-21.
         
     20. The impact of missed opportunities on seasonal influenza vaccination coverage for healthy young children
         Allred NJ, Poehling KA, Szilagyi PG, Zhang F, Edwards KM, Staat MA, Donauer S, Prill MM, Fairbrother G.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 Nov;17(6):560-564.
         
   • Informatics
     21. Utilization of two web-based continuing education courses evaluated by Markov chain model
         Tian H, Lin JM, Reeves WC.
         J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Oct 5.
         
   • Injury and Violence
     22. Israeli adolescents exposed to community and terror violence: the protective role of social support
         Brookmeyer KA, Henrich CC, Cohen G, Shahar G.
         J Early Adolesc. 2011 Aug;31(4):577-603.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     23. Particle collection efficiency for nylon mesh screens
         Cena LG, Ku BK, Peters TM.
         Aerosol Sci Technol. 2012 2012/02/01;46(2):214-221.
         
     24. Reduced avian virulence and viremia of West Nile virus isolates from Mexico and Texas
         Brault AC, Langevin SA, Ramey WN, Fang Y, Beasley DW, Barker CM, Sanders TA, Reisen WK, Barrett AD, Bowen RA.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Oct;85(4):758-767.
         
     25. National validation study of a cellulose sponge-wipe processing method for use after sampling Bacillus anthracis spores from surfaces
         Rose LJ, Hodges L, O'Connell H, Noble-Wang J.
         Appl Environ Microbiol. 2011 Sep 30.
         
     26. Development of a human-murine chimeric immunoglobulin M for use in the serological detection of human alphavirus antibodies
         Thibodeaux BA, Liss NM, Panella AN, Roehrig JT.
         Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2011 Oct 5.
         
     27. Comparison of the HPDLab and REATMaster software/hardware systems for ANSI S12.6 testing
         Byrne DC, Perry CC, Murphy WJ.
         J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Oct;130(4):2434.
         
     28. Comparison of three acoustics test fixtures for impulse peak insertion loss
         Murphy WJ, Flamme GA, Meinke DK, Finan DS, Lankford J, Khan A, Sondergaard J, Stewart M.
         J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Oct;130(4):2433.
         
     29. Measuring, rating, and comparing the real ear attenuation at threshold of four earplugs
         Murphy WJ, Stephenson MR, Byrne DC.
         J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Oct;130(4):2435.
         
     30. Calibration details for the impulse peak insertion loss measurement
         Murphy WJ, Vernon JA.
         J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Oct;130(4):2434.
         
     31. Alaska sentinel surveillance study of Helicobacter pylori isolates from Alaska Native persons from 2000 to 2008
         Tveit AH, Bruce MG, Bruden DL, Morris J, Reasonover A, Hurlburt DA, Hennessy TW, McMahon B.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Oct;49(10):3638-43.
         
     32. Antioxidant c-FLIP inhibits Fas ligand-induced NF-{kappa}B activation in a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt-dependent manner
         Iyer AK, Azad N, Talbot S, Stehlik C, Lu B, Wang L, Rojanasakul Y.
         J Immunol. 2011 Sep 15;187(6):3256-66.
         
     33. Viable Staphylococcus aureus quantitation using 15N metabolically-labeled bacteriophage amplification coupled with a multiple reaction monitoring proteomic workflow
         Pierce CL, Rees JC, Fernandez FM, Barr JR.
         Mol Cell Proteomics. 2011 Oct 4.
         
     34. Effect of D222G mutation in the hemagglutinin protein on receptor binding, pathogenesis and transmissibility of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus
         Belser JA, Jayaraman A, Raman R, Pappas C, Zeng H, Cox NJ, Katz JM, Sasisekharan R, Tumpey TM.
         PLoS One. 2011 ;6(9):e25091.
         
     35. Increased MDSC accumulation and Th2 biased response to influenza A virus infection in the absence of TLR7 in mice
         Jeisy-Scott V, Davis WG, Patel JR, Bowzard JB, Shieh WJ, Zaki SR, Katz JM, Sambhara S.
         PLoS One. 2011 ;6(9):e25242.
         
     36. Using next generation sequencing to identify yellow fever virus in Uganda
         McMullan LK, Frace M, Sammons SA, Shoemaker T, Balinandi S, Wamala JF, Lutwama JJ, Downing RG, Stroeher U, Macneil A, Nichol ST.
         Virology. 2011 Sep 30.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     37. Gestational diabetes mellitus and risk of childhood overweight and obesity in offspring: a systematic review
         Kim SY, England JL, Sharma JA, Njoroge T.
         Exp Diabetes Res. 2011 ;2011:541308.
         
     38. Birth prevalence rates of newborn screening disorders in relation to screening practices in the United States
         Hertzberg VS, Hinton CF, Therrell BL, Shapira SK.
         J Pediatr. 2011 Oct;159(4):555-60.
         
   • Nutritional Sciences
     39. Nutritional status of under-five children living in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
         Olack B, Burke H, Cosmas L, Bamrah S, Dooling K, Feikin DR, Talley LE, Breiman RF.
         J Health Popul Nutr. 2011 Aug;29(4):357-63.
         
     40. Formative research for the development of a market-based home fortification programme for young children in Niger
         Tripp K, Perrine CG, de Campos P, Knieriemen M, Hartz R, Ali F, Jefferds ME, Kupka R.
         Matern Child Nutr. 2011 Oct;7 Suppl 3:82-95.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     41. Exposure and emissions monitoring during carbon nanofiber production--part II: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
         Birch ME.
         Ann Occup Hyg. 2011 Oct 5.
         
     42. Exposure and emissions monitoring during carbon nanofiber production--part I: elemental carbon and iron-soot aerosols
         Birch ME, Ku BK, Evans DE, Ruda-Eberenz TA.
         Ann Occup Hyg. 2011 Sep 28.
         
     43. The effectiveness of using interferon-gamma release assays in screening immigration employees for latent tuberculosis infection
         de Perio A, Niemeier RT, Groenewold MR.
         Int J Occup Environ Health. 2011 ;17(4):322-327.
         
     44. A pilot study of workplace dermal exposures to cypermethrin at a chemical manufacturing plant
         Buckley TJ, Geer LA, Connor TH, Robertson S, Sammons D, Smith J, Snawder J, Boeniger M.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2011 Oct;8(10):600-8.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining
     45. Detonability of natural gas-air mixtures
         Gamezo VN, Zipf Jr RK, Sapko MJ, Marchewka WP, Mohamed KM, Oran ES, Kessler D, Weiss ES, Addis JD, Karnack FA, Sellers DD.
         Combust Flame. 2011 .
         
   • Parasitic Diseases
     46. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the United States: a systematic review--1940-2010
         Starr MC, Montgomery SP.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Oct;85(4):680-4.
         
     47. Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas' disease in the United States
         Bern C, Kjos S, Yabsley MJ, Montgomery SP.
         Clin Microbiol Rev. 2011 Oct;24(4):655-81.
         
     48. Schistosoma mansoni enhances host susceptibility to mucosal but not intravenous challenge by R5 clade C SHIV
         Siddappa NB, Hemashettar G, Shanmuganathan V, Semenya AA, Sweeney ED, Paul KS, Lee SJ, Secor WE, Ruprecht RM.
         PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Aug;5(8):e1270.
         
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     49. Cancer plan index: a measure for assessing the quality of cancer plans
         Rochester P, Adams E, Porterfield DS, Holden D, McAleer K, Steele CB.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2011 Nov;17(6):E12-7.
         
   • Reproductive Health
     50. Postpartum intrauterine device insertion and postpartum tubal sterilization in the United States
         Whiteman MK, Cox S, Tepper NK, Curtis KM, Jamieson DJ, Penman-Aguilar A, Marchbanks PA.
         Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Aug 11.
         
   • Statistics as Topic
     51. Evaluation of variance estimators for the concentration and health achievement indices: a Monte Carlo simulation
         Chen Z, Roy K, Gotway Crawford CA.
         Health Econ. 2011 Sep 28.
         
   • Zoonoses
     52. Cyclospora papionis, Cryptosporidium hominis, and human-pathogenic Enterocytozoon bieneusi in captive baboons in Kenya
         Li W, Kiulia NM, Mwenda JM, Nyachieo A, Taylor MB, Zhang X, Xiao L.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Sep 28.
         
   
   
3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas
   • Public Health Law
     53. Recommendations on dram shop liability and overservice law enforcement initiatives to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and related harms
         Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
         Am J Prev Med. 2011 Sep;41(3):344-6.
         
     54. Changes in retail tobacco promotions in a cohort of stores before, during, and after a tobacco product display ban
         Cohen JE, Planinac L, Lavack A, Robinson D, O'Connor S, Dinardo J.
         Am J Public Health. 2011 Oct;101(10):1879-81.
         
     55. Informational privacy, public health, and state laws
         O'Connor J, Matthews G.
         Am J Public Health. 2011 Oct;101(10):1845-50.
         
     56. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, soda, and USDA policy: who benefits?
         Brownell KD, Ludwig DS.
         JAMA. 2011 Sep 28;306(12):1370-1.
         
     57. Graduated driver licensing and fatal crashes involving 16- to 19-year-old drivers
         Masten SV, Foss RD, Marshall SW.
         JAMA. 2011 Sep 14;306(10):1098-103.
         
     58. Food and Drug Administration regulation of food safety
         Stewart K, Gostin LO.
         JAMA. 2011 Jul 6;306(1):88-9.
         
     59. Assisted reproduction--Canada's Supreme Court and the "global baby"
         Annas GJ.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 4;365(5):459-63.
         
     60. Reforming the regulations governing research with human subjects
         Emanuel EJ, Menikoff J.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Jul 25.
         
     61. Higher First Amendment hurdles for public health regulation
         Outterson K.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 18;365(7):e13.
         
     62. Will the Food Safety Modernization Act help prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness?
         Taylor MR.
         N Engl J Med. 2011 Sep 1;365(9):e18.
         
   
   
4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   • MMWR in the Media
     63. Acute illness and injury from swimming pool disinfectants and other chemicals - United States, 2002 - 2008
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Oct 7;60:1343-7.
         
     64. Nonfatal traumatic brain injuries related to sports and recreation activities among persons aged </=19 years - United States, 2001 - 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Oct 7;60:1337-42.
         
     65. Vital signs: alcohol-impaired driving among adults - United States, 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Oct 7;60:1351-6.
         
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     66. Self-rated health and risk of incident dementia: a community-based elderly cohort, the 3C Study
         Montlahuc C, Soumare A, Dufouil C, Berr C, Dartigues JF, Poncet M, Tzourio C, Alperovitch A.
         Neurology. 2011 Oct 5.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     67. Alternative vaccination schedule preferences among parents of young children
         Dempsey AF, Schaffer S, Singer D, Butchart A, Davis M, Freed GL.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Oct 3.
         
   
   

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