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1. CDC Vital Signs
   • Physical Activity - Walking
     1. *The impact of community design and land-use choices on public health: a scientific research agenda
        Dannenberg AL, Jackson RJ, Frumkin H, Schieber RA, Pratt M, Kochtitzky C, Tilson HH.
        Am J Public Health. 2003 Sep;93(9):1500-8.
        
     2. *Built environment correlates of walking: a review
        Saelens BE, Handy SL.
        Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Jul;40(7 Suppl):S550-66.
        
     3. The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity. A systematic review
        Kahn EB, Ramsey LT, Brownson RC, Heath GW, Howze EH, Powell KE, Stone EJ, Rajab MW, Corso P.
        Am J Prev Med. 2002 May;22(4 Suppl):73-107.
        
     4. Walking trends among U.S. adults: the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1987-2000
        Simpson ME, Serdula M, Galuska DA, Gillespie C, Donehoo R, Macera C, Mack K.
        Am J Prev Med. 2003 Aug;25(2):95-100.
        
     5. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001-2009: evidence from the National Household Travel Surveys
        Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A.
        Am J Public Health. 2011 Dec;101 Suppl 1:S310-7.
        
     6. The effectiveness of urban design and land use and transport policies and practices to increase physical activity: a systematic review
        Heath GW, Brownson RC, Kruger J, Miles R, Powell KE, Ramsey LT.
        J Phys Act Health. 2006 ;3(Suppl 1).
        
     7. A national physical activity plan for the United States
        Pate RR.
        J Phys Act Health. 2009 Nov;6 Suppl 2:S157-8.
        
     8. The importance of walking to public health
        Lee IM, Buchner DM.
        Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Jul;40(7 Suppl):S512-8.
        
     9. National prevention strategy
        National Prevention Council. (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
        U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2011 .
        
     10. Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee report, 2008
         Physical Activity Guidelines Committee.
         Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008. 2008 .
         
   
   
2. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.
   Articles published in the past 6-8 weeks authored by CDC or ATSDR staff.
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     11. Urinary naphthol metabolites and chromosomal aberrations in 5-year-old children
         Orjuela MA, Liu X, Miller RL, Warburton D, Tang D, Jobanputra V, Hoepner L, Suen IH, Diaz-Carreno S, Li Z, Sjodin A, Perera FP.
         Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Jul;21(7):1191-202.
         
     12. Health utility scores for people with type 2 diabetes in U.S. managed care health plans: results from Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD)
         Zhang P, Brown MB, Bilik D, Ackermann RT, Li R, Herman WH.
         Diabetes Care. 2012 Jul 26.
         
   • Communicable Diseases
     13. Q fever with unusual exposure history: a classic presentation of a commonly misdiagnosed disease
         Nett RJ, Book E, Anderson AD.
         Case Rep Infect Dis. 2012 ;2012:916142.
         
     14. Factors related to increasing prevalence of resistance to ciprofloxacin and other antimicrobial drugs in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, United States
         Goldstein E, Kirkcaldy RD, Reshef D, Berman S, Weinstock H, Sabeti P, Del Rio C, Hall G, Hook EW, Lipsitch M.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Aug;18(8):1290-7.
         
     15. Lessons learned during tuberculosis screening in public medical clinics in Francistown, Botswana
         Bloss E, Makombe R, Kip E, Smit M, Chirenda J, Gammino VM, Creek T, Oeltmann JE.
         Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Aug;16(8):1030-2.
         
     16. Scale-up of isoniazid preventive therapy in PEPFAR-assisted clinical sites in South Africa
         Bristow CC, Larson E, Vilakazi-Nhlapo AK, Wilson M, Klausner JD.
         Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Aug;16(8):1020-2.
         
     17. Outcomes and follow-up of patients treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Orel, Russia, 2002-2005
         Cavanaugh JS, Kazennyy BY, Nguyen ML, Kiryanova EV, Vitek E, Khorosheva TM, Nemtsova E, Cegielski JP.
         Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Aug;16(8):1069-74.
         
     18. Predictors of failure in timely tuberculosis treatment completion, United States
         Mitruka K, Winston CA, Navin TR.
         Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Aug;16(8):1075-82.
         
     19. Factors associated with delays in treatment initiation after tuberculosis diagnosis in two districts of India
         Paul D, Busireddy A, Nagaraja SB, Satyanarayana S, Dewan PK, Nair SA, Sarkar S, Ahmed QT, Sarkar S, Shamrao SR, Harries AD, Oeltmann JE.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(7):e39040.
         
   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services
     20. Recovery of HIV service provision post-earthquake
         Walldorf JA, Joseph P, Valles JS, Sabatier JF, Marston BJ, Jean-Charles K, Louissant E, Tappero JW.
         Aids. 2012 Jul 17;26(11):1431-6.
         
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     21. Drug coverage surveys for neglected tropical diseases: 10 years of field experience
         Worrell C, Mathieu E.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug;87(2):216-22.
         
     22. Use of lung cancer screening tests in the United States: results from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey
         Doria-Rose VP, White MC, Klabunde CN, Nadel MR, Richards TB, McNeel TS, Rodriguez JL, Marcus PM.
         Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Jul;21(7):1049-59.
         
     23. Frontiers in cancer epidemiology: a challenge to the research community from the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program at the National Cancer Institute
         Khoury MJ, Freedman AN, Gillanders EM, Harvey CE, Kaefer C, Reid BC, Rogers S, Schully SD, Seminara D, Verma M.
         Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Jul;21(7):999-1001.
         
     24. Development of a new platform for neglected tropical disease surveillance
         Lammie PJ, Moss DM, Brook Goodhew E, Hamlin K, Krolewiecki A, West SK, Priest JW.
         Int J Parasitol. 2012 Jul 27.
         
     25. Unexplained death due to possible infectious diseases in infants-United States, 2006
         Taylor CA, Holman RC, Callinan LS, Zaki SR, Blau DM.
         J Pediatr. 2012 Jul 25.
         
   • Food Safety
     26. Outbreak of human trichinellosis in Northern California caused by Trichinella murrelli
         Hall RL, Lindsay A, Hammond C, Montgomery SP, Wilkins PP, da Silva AJ, McAuliffe I, de Almeida M, Bishop H, Mathison B, Sun B, Largusa R, Jones JL.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug;87(2):297-302.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     27. Reverse genetics recovery of Lujo virus and role of virus RNA secondary structures in efficient virus growth
         Bergeron E, Chakrabarti AK, Bird BH, Dodd KA, McMullan LK, Spiropoulou CF, Nichol ST, Albarino CG.
         J Virol. 2012 Jul 25.
         
     28. A hybrid approach for the automated finishing of bacterial genomes
         Bashir A, Klammer AA, Robins WP, Chin CS, Webster D, Paxinos E, Hsu D, Ashby M, Wang S, Peluso P, Sebra R, Sorenson J, Bullard J, Yen J, Valdovino M, Mollova E, Luong K, Lin S, Lamay B, Joshi A, Rowe L, Frace M, Tarr CL, Turnsek M, Davis BM, Kasarskis A, Mekalanos JJ, Waldor MK, Schadt EE.
         Nat Biotechnol. 2012 Jul 1.
         
     29. Ethnicity interacts with the OPRM1 gene in experimental pain sensitivity
         Hastie BA, Riley JL, Kaplan L, Herrera DG, Campbell CM, Virtusio K, Mogil JS, Wallace MR, Fillingim RB.
         Pain. 2012 Aug;153(8):1610-9.
         
   • Health Disparities
     30. The health of male veterans and nonveterans aged 25-64: United States, 2007-2010
         Kramarow E, Pastor P.
         NCHS Data Brief. 2012 August(101):1-8.
         
   • Healthcare Associated Infections
     31. Solid organ transplant-associated lymphocytic choriomeningitis, United States, 2011
         MacNeil A, Stroher U, Farnon E, Campbell S, Cannon D, Paddock CD, Drew CP, Kuehnert M, Knust B, Gruenenfelder R, Zaki SR, Rollin PE, Nichol ST.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Aug;18(8):1256-1262.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     32. A varicella outbreak in a school with high one-dose vaccination coverage, Beijing, China
         Lu L, Suo L, Li J, Zhai L, Zheng Q, Pang X, Bialek SR, Wang C.
         Vaccine. 2012 Jul 20;30(34):5094-8.
         
     33. Antibody persistence in mothers one year after pneumococcal immunization in pregnancy
         Schlaudecker EP, Steinhoff MC, Omer SB, Roy E, Arifeen SE, Dodd CN, Altaye M, Raqib R, Breiman RF, Zaman K.
         Vaccine. 2012 Jul 20;30(34):5063-6.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     34. Population diversity among Bordetella pertussis isolates, United States, 1935-2009
         Schmidtke AJ, Boney KO, Martin SW, Skoff TH, Tondella ML, Tatti KM.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Aug;18(8):1248-55.
         
     35. Probability of negative Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex cultures based on time-to-detection of positive cultures: a multi-center evaluation of commercial broth-based culture systems
         Tyrrell FC, Budnick GE, Elliott T, Gillim-Ross L, Hildred MV, Mahlmeister P, Parrish N, Pentella M, Vanneste J, Wang YF, Starks AM.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Jul 25.
         
     36. Rapid differentiation of monocytes into type I IFN-producing myeloid dendritic cells as an antiviral strategy against influenza virus infection
         Cao W, Taylor AK, Biber RE, Davis WG, Kim JH, Reber AJ, Chirkova T, De La Cruz JA, Pandey A, Ranjan P, Katz JM, Gangappa S, Sambhara S.
         J Immunol. 2012 Aug 1.
         
     37. Preliminary studies on the use of acid-soluble cellulose acetate internal capsules for workplace metals sampling and analysis
         Harper M, Ashley K.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2012 Jul;9(7):D125-D129.
         
     38. TLR7 recognition is dispensable for influenza virus A infection, but important for the induction of hemagglutinin-specific antibodies in response to the 2009 pandemic split vaccine in mice
         Jeisy-Scott V, Kim JH, Davis WG, Cao W, Katz JM, Sambhara S.
         J Virol. 2012 Jul 25.
         
     39. Chemical and biochemical approaches in the study of histone methylation and demethylation
         Li KK, Luo C, Wang D, Jiang H, Zheng YG.
         Med Res Rev. 2012 Jul;32(4):815-67.
         
     40. Prediction of acute mammalian toxicity using QSAR methods: a case study of sulfur mustard and its breakdown products
         Ruiz P, Begluitti G, Tincher T, Wheeler J, Mumtaz M.
         Molecules. 2012 ;17(8):8982-9001.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     41. Health care utilization in the first year of life among small- and large- for-gestational age term infants
         Dietz PM, Rizzo JH, England LJ, Callaghan WM, Vesco KK, Bruce FC, Bulkley JE, Sharma AJ, Hornbrook MC.
         Matern Child Health J. 2012 Aug 2.
         
   • Nutritional Sciences
     42. Sodium and potassium intakes among US adults: NHANES 2003-2008
         Cogswell ME, Zhang Z, Carriquiry AL, Gunn JP, Kuklina EV, Saydah SH, Yang Q, Moshfegh AJ.
         Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Aug 1.
         
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     43. A multistate examination of partnership activity among local public health systems using the National Public Health Performance Standards
         Barnes PA, Curtis AB, Hall-Downey L, Moonesinghe R.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2012 Sep;18(5):E14-23.
         
     44. Functions of environmental epidemiology and surveillance in state health departments
         Stanbury M, Anderson H, Blackmore C, Fagliano J, Heumann M, Kass D, McGeehin M.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2012 Sep;18(5):453-460.
         
   • Statistics as Topic
     45. A hierarchical Bayesian nonresponse model for two-way categorical data from small areas with uncertainty about ignorability
         Nandram B, Katzoff M.
         Surv Methodol. 2012 Jun;38(1):81-93.
         
   • Zoonoses
     46. Evidence of rabies virus exposure among humans in the Peruvian Amazon
         Gilbert AT, Petersen BW, Recuenco S, Niezgoda M, Gomez J, Laguna-Torres VA, Rupprecht C.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug;87(2):206-15.
         
     47. Identification of diverse Bartonella genotypes among small mammals from Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania
         Gundi VA, Kosoy MY, Makundi RH, Laudisoit A.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug;87(2):319-26.
         
     48. Zoonotic infections among employees from Great Smoky Mountains and Rocky Mountain National Parks, 2008-2009
         Adjemian J, Weber IB, McQuiston J, Griffith KS, Mead PS, Nicholson W, Roche A, Schriefer M, Fischer M, Kosoy O, Laven JJ, Stoddard RA, Hoffmaster AR, Smith T, Bui D, Wilkins PP, Jones JL, Gupton PN, Quinn CP, Messonnier N, Higgins C, Wong D.
         Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2012 Jul 26.
         
   
   
3. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   Articles about important public health topics that have been mentioned in the press.
   • MMWR in the Media
     49. Consumption of cigarettes and combustible tobacco - United States, 2000-2011
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Aug 3;61(30):565-9.
         
     50. Infant lead poisoning associated with use of tiro, an eye cosmetic from Nigeria - Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Aug 3;61(30):574-6.
         
   • Health Disparities
     51. The health of male veterans and nonveterans aged 25-64: United States, 2007-2010
         Kramarow E, Pastor P.
         NCHS Data Brief. 2012 August(101):1-8.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     52. Age at last birth in relation to risk of endometrial cancer: pooled analysis in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium
         Setiawan VW, Pike MC, Karageorgi S, Deming SL, Anderson K, Bernstein L, Brinton LA, Cai H, Cerhan JR, Cozen W, Chen C, Doherty J, Freudenheim JL, Goodman MT, Hankinson SE, Lacey JV, Liang X, Lissowska J, Lu L, Lurie G, Mack T, Matsuno RK, McCann S, Moysich KB, Olson SH, Rastogi R, Rebbeck TR, Risch H, Robien K, Schairer C, Shu XO, Spurdle AB, Strom BL, Thompson PJ, Ursin G, Webb PM, Weiss NS, Wentzensen N, Xiang YB, Yang HP, Yu H, Horn-Ross PL, De Vivo I.
         Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Jul 23.
         
   • Zoonoses
     53. Evidence of rabies virus exposure among humans in the Peruvian Amazon
         Gilbert AT, Petersen BW, Recuenco S, Niezgoda M, Gomez J, Laguna-Torres VA, Rupprecht C.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug;87(2):206-15.
         
   
   

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