Issue 32, August 19, 2013

The report consists of two components:

• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications

1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   Selected weekly by a senior CDC scientist from the standard sections listed below.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     • COPD surveillance-United States, 1999-2011external icon
       Ford ES, Croft JB, Mannino DM, Wheaton AG, Zhang X, Giles WH.
       Chest. 2013 Jul 1;144(1):284-305.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Disparities in HIV transmission risk among HIV-infected black and white MSM, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009external icon
       Beer L, Oster AM, Mattson CL, Skarbinski J.
       AIDS. 2013 Aug 12.
       
     • Dracunculiasis eradication: and now, South Sudanexternal icon
       Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E, Weiss A, Withers PC, Eberhard ML, Roy SL.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jul;89(1):5-10.
       
     • Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladeshexternal icon
       Lin A, Arnold BF, Afreen S, Goto R, Huda TM, Haque R, Raqib R, Unicomb L, Ahmed T, Colford JM, Luby SP.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jul;89(1):130-137.
       
     • Recognizing laboratory cross-contamination: two false-positive cultures of mycobacterium tuberculosis-Oklahoma, 2011external icon
       Johnson MG, Lindsey PH, Harvey CF, Bradley KK.
       Chest. 2013 Jul 1;144(1):319-22.
       
     • Gonorrhea infections diagnosed among persons living with HIV/AIDS: identifying opportunities for integrated prevention services in New York City, Washington, DC, Miami/Dade County, and Arizonaexternal icon
       Taylor MM, Schillinger JA, Furness BW, Brewer T, Newman DR, Pathela P, Skinner J, Braunstein S, Shepard C, Ahmed T, Griffin A, Blank S, Peterman TA.
       J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Sep 1;64(1):115-20.
       

   • Healthcare Economics

     • Costs of planning and implementing the CDC’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Programexternal icon
       Subramanian S, Tangka FK, Hoover S, Beebe MC, Degroff A, Royalty J, Seeff LC.
       Cancer. 2013 Aug 1;119 Suppl 15:2855-62.
       

   • Immunity and Immunization

     • Measles vaccination using a microneedle patchexternal icon
       Edens C, Collins ML, Ayers J, Rota PA, Prausnitz MR.
       Vaccine. 2013 Jul 25;31(34):3403-9.
       

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     • Tobacco use in 3 billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveysexternal icon
       Giovino GA, Mirza SA, Samet JM, Gupta PC, Jarvis MJ, Bhala N, Peto R, Zatonski W, Hsia J, Morton J, Palipudi KM, Asma S.
       Lancet. 2012 Aug 18;380(9842):668-79.
       

   • Zoonoses

     • Raccoon rabies virus variant transmission through solid organ transplantationexternal icon
       Vora NM, Basavaraju SV, Feldman KA, Paddock CD, Orciari L, Gitterman S, Griese S, Wallace RM, Said M, Blau DM, Selvaggi G, Velasco-Villa A, Ritter J, Yager P, Kresch A, Niezgoda M, Blanton J, Stosor V, Falta EM, Lyon GM, Zembower T, Kuzmina N, Rohatgi PK, Recuenco S, Zaki S, Damon I, Franka R, Kuehnert MJ.
       JAMA. 2013 Jul 24;310(4):398-407.
       

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

     1. Moving forward: Using the experience of the CDCs’ Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program to guide future colorectal cancer programming effortsexternal icon
        Seeff LC, Degroff A, Joseph DA, Royalty J, Tangka FK, Nadel MR, Plescia M.
        Cancer. 2013 Aug 1;119 Suppl 15:2940-6.
        
     2. Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetesexternal icon
        Wing RR, Bolin P, Brancati FL, Bray GA, Clark JM, Coday M, Crow RS, Curtis JM, Egan CM, Espeland MA, Evans M, Foreyt JP, Ghazarian S, Gregg EW, Harrison B, Hazuda HP, Hill JO, Horton ES, Hubbard VS, Jakicic JM, Jeffery RW, Johnson KC, Kahn SE, Kitabchi AE, Knowler WC, Lewis CE, Maschak-Carey BJ, Montez MG, Murillo A, Nathan DM, Patricio J, Peters A, Pi-Sunyer X, Pownall H, Reboussin D, Regensteiner JG, Rickman AD, Ryan DH, Safford M, Wadden TA, Wagenknecht LE, West DS, Williamson DF, Yanovski SZ.
        N Engl J Med. 2013 Jul 11;369(2):145-54.
        
     3. Achievement of goals in U.S. dabetes cre, 1999?2010 (authors reply)
        Ali MK, Bullard KM, Gregg EW.
        New England Journal of Medicine. 2013 ;369(3):287-288.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     4. Evaluation of a dried blood and plasma collection device, sample tanker, for HIV type 1 drug resistance genotyping in patients receiving antiretroviral therapyexternal icon
        Diallo K, Lehotzky E, Zhang J, Zhou Z, de Rivera IL, Murillo WE, Nkengasong J, Sabatier J, Zhang G, Yang C.
        AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2013 Aug 14.
        
     5. Unusual enterocytozoon bieneusi genotypes and cryptosporidium hominis subtypes in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapyexternal icon
        Akinbo FO, Okaka CE, Omoregie R, Adamu H, Xiao L.
        Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jul;89(1):157-61.
        
     6. Association between CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts and fecal excretion of schistosoma mansoni eggs in patients coinfected with S. mansoni and human immunodeficiency virus before and after initiation of antiretroviral therapyexternal icon
        Muok EM, Simiyu EW, Ochola EA, Ng’ang’a ZW, Secor WE, Karanja DM, Mwinzi PN.
        Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jul;89(1):42-5.
        
     7. The proportions of people living with HIV in low and middle-income countries who test tuberculin skin test positive using either a greater or equal to 5 mm or a greater or equal to 10 mm cut-off: a systematic reviewexternal icon
        Kerkhoff AD, Gupta A, Samandari T, Lawn SD.
        BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Jul 8;13(1):307.
        
     8. Norovirus disease in the United Statesexternal icon
        Hall AJ, Lopman BA, Payne DC, Patel MM, Gastanaduy PA, Vinje J, Parashar UD.
        Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;19(8):1198-205.
        
     9. Rapid advances in understanding viral gastroenteritis from domestic surveillanceexternal icon
        Payne DC, Parashar UD.
        Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;19(8):1189.
        
     10. Rotavirus G9P[4] in 3 countries in Latin America, 2009-2010 (letter)external icon
         Quaye O, McDonald S, Esona MD, Lyde FC, Mijatovic-Rustempasic S, Roy S, Banegas DJ, Quinonez YM, Chinchilla BL, Santiago FG, Lozano HG, Rey-Benito G, de Oliveira LH, Gentsch JR, Bowen MD.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;19(8).
         
     11. Influenza-associated excess mortality in southern Brazil, 1980-2008external icon
         Freitas FT, Souza LR, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Cheng PY, Zhou H, Widdowson MA, Shay DK, Oliveira WK, Araujo WN.
         Epidemiology and Infection. 2013 August;141(8):1731-1740.
         
     12. A single early introduction of HIV-1 subtype B into Central America accounts for most current casesexternal icon
         Murillo W, Veras N, Prosperi M, de Rivera IL, Paz-Bailey G, Morales-Miranda S, Juarez SI, Yang C, DeVos J, Marin JP, Mild M, Albert J, Salemi M.
         J Virol. 2013 Jul;87(13):7463-70.
         
     13. Interleukin-21 is a critical cytokine for the generation of virus-specific long-lived plasma cellsexternal icon
         Rasheed MA, Latner DR, Aubert RD, Gourley T, Spolski R, Davis CW, Langley WA, Ha SJ, Ye L, Sarkar S, Kalia V, Konieczny BT, Leonard WJ, Ahmed R.
         J Virol. 2013 Jul;87(13):7737-46.
         
     14. Differences in human immunodeficiency virus care and treatment among subpopulations in the United Statesexternal icon
         Hall HI, Frazier EL, Rhodes P, Holtgrave DR, Furlow-Parmley C, Tang T, Gray KM, Cohen SM, Mermin J, Skarbinski J.
         JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Jul 22;173(14):1337-44.
         
     15. High impact prevention and management strategies for improving outcomes in an HIV/AIDS population
         Branson BM.
         Journal of Managed Care Medicine. 2013 ;16(2):63-65.
         
     16. Sensitive assessment of the virologic outcomes of stopping and restarting non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapyexternal icon
         Geretti AM, Fox Z, Johnson JA, Booth C, Lipscomb J, Stuyver LJ, Tachedjian G, Baxter J, Touloumi G, Lehmann C, Owen A, Phillips A.
         PLoS One. 2013 ;8(7):e69266.
         
     17. Screening for sexually transmitted diseases in short-term correctional institutions: summary of evidence reviewed for the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelinesexternal icon
         Spaulding AC, Miller J, Trigg BG, Braverman P, Lincoln T, Reams PN, Staples-Horne M, Sumbry A, Rice D, Satterwhite CL.
         Sex Transm Dis. 2013 Sep;40(9):679-684.
         
     18. Hepatitis E virus infection in a liver transplant recipient: delayed diagnosis due to variable performance of serologic assaysexternal icon
         Yoo N, Bernstein J, Caldwell C, Dong C, Drobeniuc J, Kamili S, Landry ML.
         Transpl Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;15(4):E166-8.
         
     19. Afriflu2-Second international workshop on influenza vaccination in the African continent-8 November 2012, Cape Town (South Africa)external icon
         Schoub BD, Gessner BD, Ampofo W, Cohen AL, Steffen CA.
         Vaccine. 2013 Aug 2;31(35):3461-6.
         

   • Environmental Health

     20. The impact of succimer chelation on blood cadmium in children with background exposures: a randomized trialexternal icon
         Cao Y, Chen A, Bottai M, Caldwell KL, Rogan WJ.
         J Pediatr. 2013 Aug;163(2):598-600.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     21. Epidemiology of community-associated clostridium difficile infection, 2009 through 2011external icon
         Chitnis AS, Holzbauer SM, Belflower RM, Winston LG, Bamberg WM, Lyons C, Farley MM, Dumyati GK, Wilson LE, Beldavs ZG, Dunn JR, Gould LH, Maccannell DR, Gerding DN, McDonald LC, Lessa FC.
         JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Jul 22;173(14):1359-67.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     22. Phenotypic, genomic, and transcriptional characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae interacting with human pharyngeal cellsexternal icon
         Kimaro Mlacha SZ, Romero-Steiner S, Hotopp JC, Kumar N, Ishmael N, Riley DR, Farooq U, Creasy TH, Tallon LJ, Liu X, Goldsmith CS, Sampson J, Carlone GM, Hollingshead SK, Scott JA, Tettelin H.
         BMC Genomics. 2013 ;14:383.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     23. Roadmap for the international collaborative epidemiologic monitoring of safety and effectiveness of new high priority vaccinesexternal icon
         Izurieta HS, Zuber P, Bonhoeffer J, Chen RT, Sankohg O, Laserson KF, Sturkenboom M, Loucq C, Weibel D, Dodd C, Black S.
         Vaccine. 2013 Aug 2;31(35):3623-7.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     24. Exposure to carbon nanotubes leads to changes in the cellular biomechanicsexternal icon
         Dong C, Kashon ML, Lowry D, Dordick JS, Reynolds SH, Rojanasakul Y, Sargent LM, Dinu CZ.
         Adv Healthc Mater. 2013 Jul;2(7):945-51.
         
     25. HPLC-ESI-MS/MS analysis of hemoglobin peptides in tryptic digests of dried-blood spot extracts detects HbS, HbC, HbD, HbE, HbO-Arab, and HbG-Philadelphia mutationsexternal icon
         Haynes CA, Guerra SL, Fontana JC, Dejesus VR.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2013 Jun 21;424C:191-200.
         
     26. Distribution and fibrotic response following inhalation exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubesexternal icon
         Mercer RR, Scabilloni JF, Hubbs AF, Battelli LA, McKinney W, Friend S, Wolfarth MG, Andrew M, Castranova V, Porter DW.
         Part Fibre Toxicol. 2013 Jul 30;10(1):33.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     27. Maternal periconceptional occupational exposure to pesticides and selected musculoskeletal birth defectsexternal icon
         Kielb C, Lin S, Herdt-Losavio M, Bell E, Chapman B, Rocheleau CM, Lawson C, Waters M, Stewart P, Olney RS, Romitti PA, Cao Y, Druschel C.
         Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2013 Jun 20.
         
     28. Diagnostic approach in cases with suspected work-related asthmaexternal icon
         Aasen TB, Burge PS, Henneberger PK, Schlunssen V, Baur X.
         J Occup Med Toxicol. 2013 ;8(1):17.
         
     29. Pulmonary and cardiovascular responses of rats to inhalation of silver nanoparticlesexternal icon
         Roberts JR, McKinney W, Kan H, Krajnak K, Frazer DG, Thomas TA, Waugh S, Kenyon A, Maccuspie RI, Hackley VA, Castranova V.
         J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2013 Apr 1;76(11):651-68.
         
     30. Communicating risks after exposure has ended: former workers’ perspectives on PCBsexternal icon
         Fujishiro K, Mobley A, Lehman E.
         New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy. 2013 ;23(2):347-367.
         

   • Reproductive Health

     31. Determinants of urinary bisphenol A concentrations in Mexican/Mexican-American pregnant womenexternal icon
         Quiros-Alcala L, Eskenazi B, Bradman A, Ye X, Calafat AM, Harley K.
         Environ Int. 2013 Jun 28;59C:152-160.
         
     32. A national action plan for promoting preconception health and health care in the United States (2012-2014)external icon
         Floyd RL, Johnson KA, Owens JR, Verbiest S, Moore CA, Boyle C.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2013 Aug 14.
         

   • Sciences, General

     33. The effect of ultrafast laser wavelength on ablation properties and implications on sample introduction in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
         LaHaye NL, Harilal SS, Diwakar PK, Hassanein A, Kulkarni P.
         Journal of Applied Physics. 2013 07/14;114(2):023103 (10 pp.).
         

   • Zoonoses

     34. Nonhuman primate retroviruses from Cambodia: High simian foamy virus prevalence, identification of divergent STLV-1 strains and no evidence of SIV infectionexternal icon
         Ayouba A, Duval L, Liegeois F, Ngin S, Ahuka-Mundeke S, Switzer WM, Delaporte E, Ariey F, Peeters M, Nerrienet E.
         Infect Genet Evol. 2013 Aug;18:325-34.
         
     35. Borrelia burgdorferi bba66 gene inactivation results in attenuated mouse infection by tick transmissionexternal icon
         Patton TG, Brandt KS, Nolder C, Clifton DR, Carroll JA, Gilmore RD.
         Infect Immun. 2013 Jul;81(7):2488-98.
         
     36. Assessment of new culture method to detect borrelia species in serum of lyme disease patientsexternal icon
         Johnson BJ, Pilgard MA, Russell TM.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Aug 14.
         
     37. West Nile virus: too important to forgetexternal icon
         Ostroff SM.
         JAMA. 2013 Jul 17;310(3):267-8.
         

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