Issue 3, January 23, 2012

Vol. 4, Issue: 3, 1/23/12

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

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     • Preventing chronic disease in women of reproductive age: opportunities for health promotion and preventive services
       Barfield WD, Warner L.
       Prev Chronic Dis. 2012 Jan;9:E34.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     • "The anticipation alone could kill you": past and potential clients' perspectives on HIV testing in non-health care settings
       Joseph HA, Fasula AM, Morgan RL, Stuckey A, Alvarez ME, Margolis A, Stratford D, Dooley SW.
       AIDS Educ Prev. 2011 Dec;23(6):577-94.
       
     • Use of a human influenza challenge model to assess person-to-person transmission: proof-of-concept study
       Killingley B, Enstone JE, Greatorex J, Gilbert AS, Lambkin-Williams R, Cauchemez S, Katz JM, Booy R, Hayward A, Oxford J, Bridges CB, Ferguson NM, Nguyen Van-Tam JS.
       J Infect Dis. 2012 Jan;205(1):35-43.
       
     • Chlamydia trachomatis trends in the United States among persons 14 to 39 years of age, 1999-2008
       Datta SD, Torrone E, Kruszon-Moran D, Berman S, Johnson R, Satterwhite CL, Papp J, Weinstock H.
       Sex Transm Dis. 2012 Feb;39(2):92-6.
       

   • Environmental Health

     • Lead poisoning in United States-bound refugee children: Thailand-Burma border, 2009
       Mitchell T, Jentes E, Ortega L, Scalia Sucosky M, Jefferies T, Bajcevic P, Parr V, Jones W, Brown MJ, Painter J.
       Pediatrics. 2012 Jan 16.
       

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     • Estimating the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection - New York City, 2008
       France AM, Bornschlegel K, Lazaroff J, Kennedy J, Balter S.
       J Urban Health. 2012 Jan 13.
       

   • Health Communication and Education

     • Enhancing HIV communication between parents and children: efficacy of the Parents Matter! Program
       Miller KS, Lin CY, Poulsen MN, Fasula A, Wyckoff SC, Forehand R, Long N, Armistead L.
       AIDS Educ Prev. 2011 Dec;23(6):550-63.
       

   • Healthcare Economics

     • The cost-effectiveness of cotrimoxazole in people with advanced HIV infection initiating antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa
       Abimbola TO, Marston BJ.
       J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Jan 11.
       

   • Laboratory Sciences

     • Automated on-line column-switching HPLC-MS/MS method for the quantification of triclocarban and its oxidative metabolites in human urine and serum
       Zhou X, Ye X, Calafat AM.
       J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2012 Jan 15;881-882:27-33.
       
     • A rapid method for capture and identification of immunogenic proteins in Bordetella pertussis enriched membranes fractions: a fast-track strategy applicable to other microorganisms
       West R, Whitmon J, Williamson YM, Moura H, Nelson M, Melnick N, Tondella ML, Schieltz D, Rees J, Woolfitt AR, Barr JR, Ades EW, Carlone GM, Sampson JS.
       J Proteomics. 2012 Jan 5.
       
   
   

2. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     1. Sugar-sweetened and diet beverage consumption is associated with cardiovascular risk factor profile in youth with type 1 diabetes
        Bortsov AV, Liese AD, Bell RA, Dabelea D, D'Agostino RB, Hamman RF, Klingensmith GJ, Lawrence JM, Maahs DM, McKeown R, Marcovina SM, Thomas J, Williams DE, Mayer-Davis EJ.
        Acta Diabetol. 2011 Dec;48(4):275-82.
        
     2. Age-specific gender differences in in-hospital mortality by type of acute myocardial infarction
        Zhang Z, Fang J, Gillespie C, Wang G, Hong Y, Yoon PW.
        Am J Cardiol. 2012 Jan 13.
        
     3. Physician over-recommendation of mammography for terminally ill women
        Leach CR, Klabunde CN, Alfano CM, Smith JL, Rowland JH.
        Cancer. 2012 Jan 1;118(1):27-37.
        
     4. Increased prevalence of inhibitors in Hispanic patients with severe haemophilia A enrolled in the Universal Data Collection database
        Carpenter SL, Soucie JM, Sterner S, Presley R.
        Haemophilia. 2012 Jan 18.
        
     5. Prevalence of obesity and trends in body mass index among US children and adolescents, 1999-2010
        Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Kit BK, Flegal KM.
        JAMA. 2012 Jan 17.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     6. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in the HIV outpatient study (HOPS): incidence and implications for mortality
        Novak RM, Richardson JT, Buchacz K, Chmiel JS, Durham MD, Palella FJ, Wendrow A, Wood K, Young B, Brooks JT.
        AIDS. 2012 Jan 10.
        
     7. A multivariable model to classify methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections as health care or community associated
        Sievert DM, Boulton ML, Wilson ML, Wilkins MJ, Gillespie BW.
        Infect Dis Clin Pract (Baltim Md). 2012 January;20(1):42-48.
        
     8. Neuraminidase H275Y and hemagglutinin D222G mutations in a fatal case of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection
        Devries A, Wotton J, Lees C, Boxrud D, Uyeki T, Lynfield R.
        Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2012 Jan 14.
        
     9. Preventing deaths in persons with HIV/hepatitis B virus coinfection: a call to accelerate prevention and treatment efforts
        Peters PJ, Marston BJ.
        J Infect Dis. 2012 Jan;205(2):166-8.
        
     10. Cytomegalovirus survival on common environmental surfaces: opportunities for viral transmission
         Stowell JD, Forlin-Passoni D, Din E, Radford K, Brown D, White A, Bate SL, Dollard SC, Bialek SR, Cannon MJ, Schmid DS.
         J Infect Dis. 2012 Jan;205(2):211-4.
         
     11. Cervical pap screening cytological abnormalities among HIV-infected adolescents in the LEGACY cohort
         Setse R, Siberry GK, Moss WJ, Gravitt P, Wheeling T, Bohannon B, Dominguez K.
         J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2012 Feb;25(1):27-34.
         
     12. HIV risk-related behaviors in the United States household population aged 15-44 years: data from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002 and 2006-2010
         Chandra A, Billioux V, Copen C, Sionean C.
         Natl Health Stat Report. 2012 Jan 19(46).
         
     13. Correlates of HIV infection among sexually active adults in Kenya: a national population-based survey
         Oluoch T, Mohammed I, Bunnell R, Kaiser R, Kim AA, Gichangi A, Mwangi M, Dadabhai S, Marum L, Orago A, Mermin J.
         Open AIDS J. 2011 ;5:125-34.
         
     14. Trends in the treatment of anemia using recombinant human erythropoietin in patients with HIV infection
         Sullivan PS, Hanson DL, Richardson JT, Brooks JT.
         Open AIDS J. 2011 ;5:113-8.
         
     15. Antiviral treatment of influenza in children
         Garg S, Fry AM, Patton M, Fiore AE, Finelli L.
         Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Feb;31(2):e43-51.
         
     16. Pertussis pseudo-outbreak linked to specimens contaminated by Bordetella pertussis DNA from clinic surfaces
         Mandal S, Tatti KM, Woods-Stout D, Cassiday PK, Faulkner AE, Griffith MM, Jackson ML, Pawloski LC, Wagner B, Barnes M, Cohn AC, Gershman KA, Messonnier NE, Clark TA, Tondella ML, Martin SW.
         Pediatrics. 2012 Jan 16.
         
     17. Dynamic patterns of circulating seasonal and pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza viruses from 2007-2010 in and around Delhi, India
         Broor S, Krishnan A, Roy DS, Dhakad S, Kaushik S, Mir MA, Singh Y, Moen A, Chadha M, Mishra AC, Lal RB.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(1):e29129.
         
     18. Health related quality of life among patients with tuberculosis and HIV in Thailand
         Kittikraisak W, Kingkaew P, Teerawattananon Y, Yothasamut J, Natesuwan S, Manosuthi W, Chongsuvivatwong V, Whitehead SJ.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(1):e29775.
         
     19. Prevalence and risk factors associated with herpes simplex virus-2 infection in a contemporary cohort of HIV-infected persons in the United States
         Patel P, Bush T, Mayer KH, Desai S, Henry K, Overton ET, Conley L, Hammer J, Brooks JT.
         Sex Transm Dis. 2012 Feb;39(2):154-160.
         

   • Environmental Health

     20. Adhering to fundamental principles of biomonitoring, BPA pharmacokinetics, and mass balance is no "flaw"
         Teeguarden JG, Calafat AM, Doerge DR.
         Toxicol Sci. 2012 Jan;125(1):321-5.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     21. Prostate cancer treatment ascertained from several sources: analysis of disagreement and error
         Goodman M, Steenland NK, Almon ML, Liff JS, Dilorio CK, Butler SO, Ekwueme DU, Hall IJ, Smith JL, Master VA, Roberts PL.
         Ann Oncol. 2012 Jan;23(1):256-63.
         
     22. Temporal trend and climate factors of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome epidemic in Shenyang City, China
         Liu X, Jiang B, Gu W, Liu Q.
         BMC Infect Dis. 2011 ;11:331.
         
     23. Improving surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia in an era of public reporting and performance measurement
         Magill SS, Fridkin SK.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Feb;54(3):378-80.
         
     24. Networking for applied field epidemiology - Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) conference 2011
         Al Nsour M, Kaiser R.
         East Mediterr Health J. 2011 December;17(12):990-993.
         
     25. Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance
         Mueller I, Slutsker L, Tanner M.
         PLoS Med. 2011 Dec;8(12):e1001144.
         

   • Healthcare Economics

     26. Medical expenditures attributable to cerebral palsy and intellectual disability among Medicaid-enrolled children
         Kancherla V, Amendah DD, Grosse SD, Yeargin-Allsopp M, Van Naarden Braun K.
         Res Dev Disabil. 2012 Jan 11;33(3):832-840.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     27. Human vaccines and their importance to public health
         Schuchat A.
         Procedia Vaccinol. 2011 ;5(1):120-126.
         
     28. Persistence of long-term immunity to hepatitis B among adolescents immunized at birth
         Chaves SS, Fischer G, Groeger J, Patel PR, Thompson ND, Teshale EH, Stevenson K, Yano VM, Armstrong GL, Samandari T, Kamili S, Drobeniuc J, Hu DJ.
         Vaccine. 2012 Jan 10.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     29. Dispersal state of multiwalled carbon nanotubes elicits profibrogenic cellular responses that correlate with fibrogenesis biomarkers and fibrosis in the murine lung
         Wang X, Xia T, Addo Ntim S, Ji Z, Lin S, Meng H, Chung CH, George S, Zhang H, Wang M, Li N, Yang Y, Castranova V, Mitra S, Bonner JC, Nel AE.
         ACS Nano. 2011 ;5(12):9772-9787.
         
     30. Identification of potential biomarkers of exposure to di(isononyl)cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylate (DINCH), an alternative for phthalate plasticizers
         Silva MJ, Furr J, Preau JL, Samandar E, Gray LE, Calafat AM.
         J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 Jan 18.
         
     31. Measuring surface area of airborne titanium dioxide powder agglomerates: relationships between gas adsorption, diffusion and mobility-based methods
         LeBouf RF, Ku BK, Chen BT, Frazer DG, Cumpston JL, Stefaniak AB.
         J Nanopart Res. 2011 Dec;13(12):7029-7039.
         
     32. Nanoparticle filtration performance of NIOSH-certified particulate air-purifying filtering facepiece respirators: evaluation by light scattering photometric and particle number-based test methods
         Rengasamy S, Eimer BC.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2012 Feb;9(2):99-109.
         
     33. Molecular identification of Enterocytozoon bieneusi isolates from Nigerian children
         Ayinmode AB, Ojuromi OT, Xiao L.
         J Parasitol Res. 2011 ;2011:129542.
         
     34. Development and application of a high-throughput microneutralization assay: lack of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus and/or murine leukemia virus detection in blood donors
         Zhou Y, Steffen I, Montalvo L, Lee TH, Zemel R, Switzer WM, Tang S, Jia H, Heneine W, Winkelman V, Tailor CS, Ikeda Y, Simmons G.
         Transfusion. 2012 Feb;52(2):332-42.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     35. Spina bifida subtypes and sub-phenotypes by maternal race/ethnicity in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
         Agopian AJ, Canfield MA, Olney RS, Lupo PJ, Ramadhani T, Mitchell LE, Shaw GM, Moore CA.
         Am J Med Genet A. 2011 Dec 2.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     36. Shift work and adverse pregnancy outcomes: comments on a recent meta-analysis
         Rocheleau C, Lawson C, Whelan E, Rich-Edwards J.
         BJOG. 2012 Feb;119(3):378.
         
     37. Comparative analysis of aromatic diisocyanate conjugation to human albumin utilizing multiplexed tandem mass spectrometry
         Hettick J, Siegel P.
         Int J Mass Spectrom. 2012 ;309:168-175.
         
     38. An updated algorithm for estimation of pesticide exposure intensity in the Agricultural Health Study
         Coble J, Thomas KW, Hines CJ, Hoppin JA, Dosemeci M, Curwin B, Lubin JH, Freeman LE, Blair A, Sandler DP, Alavanja MC.
         Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2011 Dec;8(12):4608-4622.
         
     39. Development of elastomeric isolators to reduce roof bolting machine drilling noise
         Michael R, Yantek D, Johnson D, Ferro E, Swope C.
         Noise Control Eng J. 2011 ;59(6):591-612.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining

     40. A shell-based magnetic field model for magnetic proximity detection systems
         Li J, Carr J, Jobes C.
         Saf Sci. 2012 ;50(3):463-471.
         

   • Public Health Law

     41. Potential moderating role of seat belt law on the relationship between seat belt use and adverse health behavior
         Strine TW, Beck L, Bolen J, Okoro C, Li C.
         Am J Health Behav. 2012 Jan;36(1):44-55.
         

   • Sciences, General

     42. Comment on 'Electromagnetic force on a moving dipole'
         Hnizdo V.
         Eur J Phys. 2012 Jan;33(1):L3-L6.
         

   • Veterinary Medicine

     43. Coxiella burnetii infection of marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest, 1997-2010
         Kersh GJ, Lambourn DM, Raverty SA, Fitzpatrick KA, Self JS, Akmajian AM, Jeffries SJ, Huggins J, Drew CP, Zaki SR, Massung RF.
         J Wildl Dis. 2012 Jan;48(1):201-6.
         

   • Zoonoses

     44. Outbreaks of human monkeypox after cessation of smallpox vaccination
         Reynolds MG, Damon IK.
         Trends Microbiol. 2012 Jan 10.
         
   
   

3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas

   • Environmental Health - Radiation

     45. Learning from the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster: insights from a special radiological emergency assistance mission
         Becker SM.
         Biosecur Bioterror. 2011 Dec;9(4):394-404.
         
     46. Can we remove iodine-131 from tap water in Japan by boiling? Experimental testing in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
         Tagami K, Uchida S.
         Chemosphere. 2011 Aug;84(9):1282-4.
         
     47. Radiological preparedness-awareness and attitudes: a cross-sectional survey of emergency medicine residents and physicians at three academic institutions in the United States
         Sheikh S, McCormick LC, Pevear J, Adoff S, Walter FG, Kazzi ZN.
         Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2012 Jan;50(1):34-8.
         
     48. Laboratory evaluation of a spectramax microplate reader and test strips for field measurement of creatinine in spot urine samples in the event of a radiological accident
         Daka JN, Moodie G, Li C, Wilkins R, Kramer GH.
         Health Phys. 2011 Aug;101(2):154-8.
         
     49. International workshop on emergency radiobioassay: considerations, gaps and recommendations
         Li C, Inn KG, Jones R, Jourdain JR, Priest N, Wilkinson D, Sadi B, et al.
         Health Phys. 2011 Aug;101(2):107-11.
         
     50. Canada's efforts in developing capabilities in radiological population monitoring
         Li C, Wilkins R, Dai X, Sadi B, Ko R, Kramer GH.
         Health Phys. 2011 Aug;101(2):112-7.
         
     51. Rapid determination of (237)Np and plutonium isotopes in urine by inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry and alpha spectrometry
         Maxwell SL, Culligan BK, Jones VD, Nichols ST, Noyes GW, Bernard MA.
         Health Phys. 2011 Aug;101(2):180-6.
         
     52. Severe deterministic effects of external exposure and intake of radioactive material: basis for emergency response criteria
         Kutkov V, Buglova E, McKenna T.
         J Radiol Prot. 2011 Jun;31(2):237-53.
         
     53. Medical countermeasures for platelet regeneration after radiation exposure. Report of a workshop and guided discussion sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, March 22-23, 2010
         DiCarlo AL, Poncz M, Cassatt DR, Shah JR, Czarniecki CW, Maidment BW.
         Radiat Res. 2011 Jul;176(1):e0001-15.
         
   
   

4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media

     54. CDC Grand Rounds: prescription drug overdoses - a U.S. epidemic
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61:10-3.
         
     55. Mercury exposure among household users and nonusers of skin-lightening creams produced in Mexico - California and Virginia, 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Jan 20;61:33-6.
         
     56. Postneonatal mortality among Alaska native infants - Alaska, 1989-2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61:1-5.
         
     57. Prepregnancy contraceptive use among teens with unintended pregnancies resulting in live births - Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2004-2008
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Jan 20;61:25-9.
         

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     58. Prevalence of obesity and trends in body mass index among US children and adolescents, 1999-2010
         Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Kit BK, Flegal KM.
         JAMA. 2012 Jan 17.
         

   • Communicable Diseases

     59. HIV risk-related behaviors in the United States household population aged 15-44 years: data from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002 and 2006-2010
         Chandra A, Billioux V, Copen C, Sionean C.
         Natl Health Stat Report. 2012 Jan 19(46).
         
     60. Pertussis pseudo-outbreak linked to specimens contaminated by Bordetella pertussis DNA from clinic surfaces
         Mandal S, Tatti KM, Woods-Stout D, Cassiday PK, Faulkner AE, Griffith MM, Jackson ML, Pawloski LC, Wagner B, Barnes M, Cohn AC, Gershman KA, Messonnier NE, Clark TA, Tondella ML, Martin SW.
         Pediatrics. 2012 Jan 16.
         
   
   

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