Issue 38, September 24, 2012

The report consists of three components:

• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications
• Public health articles noted in the media

1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

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

   • Environmental Health

     • Plain language summaries: a new EHS-net tool to share our published findings
       Brown LG, Wigington PS.
       J Environ Health. 2012 Sep;75(2):30-1.
       

   • Genetics and Genomics

     • Public health action in genomics is now needed beyond newborn screening
       Bowen MS, Kolor K, Dotson WD, Ned RM, Khoury MJ.
       Public Health Genomics. 2012 Sep 11.
       

   • Immunity and Immunization

     • The safety of adjuvants in influenza vaccines during pregnancy: what do we know and why do we need them?
       Jamieson DJ, Rasmussen SA.
       Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Sep;207(3):145-6.
       

   • Nutritional Sciences

     • Nutritional risk factors for tuberculosis among adults in the United States, 1971-1992
       Cegielski JP, Arab L, Cornoni-Huntley J.
       Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Sep 1;176(5):409-22.
       
     • Sodium intake and blood pressure among US children and adolescents
       Yang Q, Zhang Z, Kuklina EV, Fang J, Ayala C, Hong Y, Loustalot F, Dai S, Gunn JP, Tian N, Cogswell ME, Merritt R.
       Pediatrics. 2012 Sep 17.
       

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     • Pilot study of aromatic hydrocarbon adsorption characteristics of disposable filtering facepiece respirators that contain activated carbon
       Rozzi T, Snyder J, Novak D.
       J Occup Environ Hyg. 2012 Nov;9(11):624-9.
       

   • Program Evaluation

     • Evaluating the sustained health impact of household chlorination of drinking water in rural Haiti
       Harshfield E, Lantagne D, Turbes A, Null C.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep 17.
       

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     • Field epidemiology and laboratory training programs in West Africa as a model for sustainable partnerships in animal and human health
       Becker KM, Ohuabunwo C, Ndjakani Y, Nguku P, Nsubuga P, Mukanga D, Wurapa F.
       J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2012 Sep 1;241(5):572-9.
       

   • Reproductive Health

     • Male circumcision programmes in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007
       Mwandi Z, Bunnell R, Cherutich P, Mermin J, Kim AA, Gichangi A, Mureithi P, Kellogg TA, Oluoch T, Muttunga J, Ngare C, Kim E, Kaiser R.
       Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Sep 1;90(9):642-51.
       

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     • Mental health needs assessment after the Gulf Coast oil spill-Alabama and Mississippi, 2010
       Buttke D, Vagi S, Bayleyegn T, Sircar K, Strine T, Morrison M, Allen M, Wolkin A.
       Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012 Aug 21:1-8.
       
   
   

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. Eradication of factor VIII inhibitors in patients with mild and moderate hemophilia A
        Kempton CL, Allen G, Hord J, Kruse-Jarres R, Pruthi RK, Walsh C, Young G, Soucie JM.
        Am J Hematol. 2012 Sep;87(9):933-6.
        
     2. Meta-analysis of 2040 sickle cell anemia patients: BCL11A and HBS1L-MYB are the major modifiers of HbF in African Americans
        Bae HT, Baldwin CT, Sebastiani P, Telen MJ, Ashley-Koch A, Garrett M, Hooper WC, Bean CJ, Debaun MR, Arking DE, Bhatnagar P, Casella JF, Keefer JR, Barron-Casella E, Gordeuk V, Kato GJ, Minniti C, Taylor J, Campbell A, Luchtman-Jones L, Hoppe C, Gladwin MT, Zhang Y, Steinberg MH.
        Blood. 2012 Aug 30;120(9):1961-2.
        
     3. High one year mortality in adults with sickle cell disease and end-stage renal disease
        McClellan AC, Luthi JC, Lynch JR, Soucie JM, Kulkarni R, Guasch A, Huff ED, Gilbertson D, McClellan WM, Debaun MR.
        Br J Haematol. 2012 Sep 12.
        
     4. Magnetic resonance angiography-defined intracranial vasculopathy is associated with silent cerebral infarcts and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase mutation in children with sickle cell anaemia
        Thangarajh M, Yang G, Fuchs D, Ponisio MR, McKinstry RC, Jaju A, Noetzel MJ, Casella JF, Barron-Casella E, Hooper WC, Boulet SL, Bean CJ, Pyle ME, Payne AB, Driggers J, Trau HA, Vendt BA, Rodeghier M, Debaun MR.
        Br J Haematol. 2012 Sep 7.
        
     5. World Trade Center Health Program; addition of certain types of cancer to the list of WTC-related health conditions. Final rule
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
        Fed Regist. 2012 Sep 12;77(177):56138-68.
        
     6. EUROGIN 2011 roadmap on prevention and treatment of HPV-related disease
        Arbyn M, de Sanjose S, Saraiya M, Sideri M, Palefsky J, Lacey C, Gillison M, Bruni L, Ronco G, Wentzensen N, Brotherton J, Qiao YL, Denny L, Bornstein J, Abramowitz L, Giuliano A, Tommasino M, Monsonego J.
        Int J Cancer. 2012 Nov 1;131(9):1969-82.
        
     7. The implications of age and comorbidity on survival following epithelial ovarian cancer: summary and results from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study
        O'Malley CD, Shema SJ, Cress RD, Bauer K, Kahn AR, Schymura MJ, Wike JM, Stewart SL.
        J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2012 Sep;21(9):887-94.
        
     8. Trends in venous thromboembolism-related hospitalizations, 1994-2009
        Boulet SL, Grosse SD, Thornburg CD, Yusuf H, Tsai J, Hooper WC.
        Pediatrics. 2012 Sep 17.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     9. HIV testing among patients infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: STD Surveillance Network, United States, 2009-2010
        Bradley H, Asbel L, Bernstein K, Mattson M, Pathela P, Mohamed M, Samuel MC, Schwebke J, Stenger M, Tabidze I, Zenilman J, Dowell D, Weinstock H.
        AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 15.
        
     10. Baseline characteristics and mortality among people in care for chronic viral hepatitis: the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS)
         Moorman AC, Gordon SC, Rupp LB, Spradling PR, Teshale EH, Lu M, Nerenz DR, Nakasato CC, Boscarino JA, Henkle EM, Oja-Tebbe NJ, Xing J, Ward JW, Holmberg SD.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 18.
         
     11. Fatal wild-type varicella-zoster virus encephalitis without a rash in a vaccinated child
         Ibraheem M, Marin M, Leung J, Bryce CH, Schmid DS, Zaki SR, Drew C, Liu L, Smelser C.
         Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Sep 13.
         
     12. Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient outcomes: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 9,153 patients
         Ahuja SD, Ashkin D, Avendano M, Banerjee R, Bauer M, Bayona JN, Becerra MC, Benedetti A, Burgos M, Centis R, Chan ED, Chiang CY, Cox H, D'Ambrosio L, Deriemer K, Dung NH, Enarson D, Falzon D, Flanagan K, Flood J, Garcia-Garcia ML, Gandhi N, Granich RM, Hollm-Delgado MG, Holtz TH, Iseman MD, Jarlsberg LG, Keshavjee S, Kim HR, Koh WJ, Lancaster J, Lange C, de Lange WC, Leimane V, Leung CC, Li J, Menzies D, Migliori GB, Mishustin SP, Mitnick CD, Narita M, O'Riordan P, Pai M, Palmero D, Park SK, Pasvol G, Pena J, Perez-Guzman C, Quelapio MI, Ponce-de-Leon A, Riekstina V, Robert J, Royce S, Schaaf HS, Seung KJ, Shah L, Shim TS, Shin SS, Shiraishi Y, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Sotgiu G, Strand MJ, Tabarsi P, Tupasi TE, van Altena R, Van der Walt M, Van der Werf TS, Vargas MH, Viiklepp P, Westenhouse J, Yew WW, Yim JJ.
         PLoS Med. 2012 Aug;9(8):e1001300.
         
     13. Controlling HIV epidemics among injection drug users: eight years of cross-border HIV prevention interventions in Vietnam and China
         Hammett TM, Des Jarlais DC, Kling R, Kieu BT, McNicholl JM, Wasinrapee P, McDougal JS, Liu W, Chen Y, Meng D, Doan N, Huu Nguyen T, Ngoc Hoang Q, Van Hoang T.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(8):e43141.
         
     14. Modeling population immunity to support efforts to end the transmission of live polioviruses
         Thompson KM, Pallansch MA, Tebbens RJ, Wassilak SG, Cochi SL.
         Risk Anal. 2012 Sep 17.
         

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     15. The dengue virus mosquito vector Aedes aegypti at high elevation in Mexico
         Lozano-Fuentes S, Hayden MH, Welsh-Rodriguez C, Ochoa-Martinez C, Tapia-Santos B, Kobylinski KC, Uejio CK, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Monache LD, Monaghan AJ, Steinhoff DF, Eisen L.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep 17.
         

   • Environmental Health

     16. Comparison of polyfluoroalkyl compound concentrations in maternal serum and amniotic fluid: a pilot study
         Stein CR, Wolff MS, Calafat AM, Kato K, Engel SM.
         Reprod Toxicol. 2012 Nov;34(3):312-6.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     17. Short report: improving record-review surveillance of young children with an autism spectrum disorder
         Wiggins LD, Robins DL, Yeargin-Allsopp M.
         Autism. 2012 Sep 17.
         
     18. Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia
         Klompas M, Magill S, Robicsek A, Strymish JM, Kleinman K, Evans RS, Lloyd JF, Khan Y, Yokoe DS, Stevenson K, Samore M, Platt R.
         Crit Care Med. 2012 Sep 17.
         
     19. Estimating influenza incidence and rates of influenza-like illness in the outpatient setting
         Fowlkes A, Dasgupta S, Chao E, Lemmings J, Goodin K, Harris M, Martin K, Feist M, Wu W, Boulton R, Temte J, Brammer L, Finelli L.
         Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2012 Sep 18.
         

   • Food Safety

     20. Epidemiology of foodborne norovirus outbreaks, United States, 2001-2008
         Hall A, Eisenbart V, Etingue A, Gould L, Lopman B, Parashar U.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 .
         
     21. Development of a consensus method for culture of Clostridium difficile from meat and its use in a survey of U.S. retail meats
         Limbago B, Thompson AD, Greene SA, MacCannell D, Macgowan CE, Jolbitado B, Hardin HD, Estes SR, Weese JS, Songer JG, Gould LH.
         Food Microbiol. 2012 Dec;32(2):448-51.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     22. Tumor necrosis factor -308 polymorphism (rs1800629) is associated with mortality and ventilator duration in 1057 Caucasian patients
         Watanabe E, Zehnbauer BA, Oda S, Sato Y, Hirasawa H, Buchman TG.
         Cytokine. 2012 Oct;60(1):249-56.
         
     23. Genetic variants in antioxidant genes are associated with diisocyanate-induced asthma
         Yucesoy B, Johnson VJ, Lummus ZL, Kissling GE, Fluharty K, Gautrin D, Malo JL, Cartier A, Boulet LP, Sastre J, Quirce S, Germolec DR, Tarlo SM, Cruz MJ, Munoz X, Luster MI, Bernstein DI.
         Toxicol Sci. 2012 Sep;129(1):166-73.
         

   • Health Behavior and Risk

     24. Associations between partner-venue specific personal responsibility beliefs and transmission risk behavior by HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM)
         O'Leary A, Horvath KJ, Simon Rosser BR.
         AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 16.
         

   • Injury and Violence

     25. Smoke alarm giveaway and installation programs: an economic evaluation
         Liu Y, Mack KA, Diekman ST.
         Am J Prev Med. 2012 Oct;43(4):385-91.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     26. Analytical detection of influenza A(H3N2)v and other A variant viruses from the USA by rapid influenza diagnostic tests
         Balish A, Garten R, Klimov A, Villanueva J.
         Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2012 Sep 18.
         
     27. Metabolomic profiling of amino acids and beta-cell function relative to insulin sensitivity in youth
         Michaliszyn SF, Sjaarda LA, Mihalik SJ, Lee S, Bacha F, Chace DH, De Jesus VR, Vockley J, Arslanian SA.
         J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012 Sep 13.
         
     28. Evaluation of physical sampling efficiency for cyclone-based personal bioaerosol samplers in moving air environments
         Su WC, Tolchinsky AD, Chen BT, Sigaev VI, Cheng YS.
         J Environ Monit. 2012 Sep 22;14(9):2430-7.
         
     29. Evaluation of the Tetracore Orthopox BioThreat(R) antigen detection assay using laboratory grown orthopoxviruses and rash illness clinical specimens
         Townsend MB, Macneil A, Reynolds MG, Hughes CM, Olson VA, Damon IK, Karem KL.
         J Virol Methods. 2012 Sep 5.
         
     30. Aspergillus bertholletius sp. nov. from brazil nuts
         Taniwaki MH, Pitt JI, Iamanaka BT, Sartori D, Copetti MV, Balajee A, Fungaro MH, Frisvad JC.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(8):e42480.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     31. Rates and success rates of trial of labor after Cesarean delivery in the United States, 1990-2009
         Uddin SF, Simon AE.
         Matern Child Health J. 2012 Sep 19.
         
     32. The burden and consequences of inherited blood disorders among young children in western Kenya
         Suchdev PS, Ruth LJ, Earley M, Macharia A, Williams TN.
         Matern Child Nutr. 2012 Sep 13.
         

   • Nutritional Sciences

     33. Effects of trimming weight-for-height data on growth-chart percentiles
         Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL.
         Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Sep 18.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     34. Nanomaterial interactions with biological systems: implications for occupational health
         Iavicoli I, Schulte PA, Iavicoli S.
         J Nanomater. 2012 .
         
     35. Are exhalation valves on n95 filtering facepiece respirators beneficial at low-moderate work rates: an overview
         Roberge RJ.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2012 Nov;9(11):617-23.
         
     36. Characterization of frequency-dependent responses of the vascular system to repetitive vibration
         Krajnak K, Miller GR, Waugh S, Johnson C, Kashon ML.
         J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Aug;54(8):1010-6.
         

   • Parasitic Diseases

     37. Mechanism of anemia in Schistosoma mansoni-infected school children in western Kenya
         Butler SE, Muok EM, Montgomery SP, Odhiambo K, Mwinzi PM, Secor WE, Karanja DM.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep 17.
         
     38. Development of clinical immunity to malaria in highland areas of low and unstable transmission
         Rolfes MA, McCarra M, Magak NG, Ernst KC, Dent AE, Lindblade KA, John CC.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep 17.
         
     39. Schistosoma mansoni morbidity among school-aged children: a SCORE project in Kenya
         Samuels AM, Matey E, Mwinzi PN, Wiegand R, Muchiri G, Ireri E, Hyde M, Montgomery SP, Karanja DM, Secor WE.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep 17.
         
     40. Influenza and malaria co-infection among young children in western Kenya, 2009-2011
         Thompson MG, Breiman RF, Hamel MJ, Desai M, Emukule G, Khagayi S, Shay DK, Morales K, Kariuki S, Bigogo GM, Njenga MK, Burton DC, Odhiambo F, Feikin DR, Laserson KF, Katz MA.
         J Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 14.
         
     41. Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis in travelers: case report and review of the literature
         Pavlin BI, Kozarsky P, Cetron MS.
         Travel Med Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 11.
         

   • Program Evaluation

     42. Evaluation of an HIV prevention intervention designed for African American women: results from the SISTA community-based organization behavioral outcomes project
         Sapiano TN, Moore A, Kalayil EJ, Zhang X, Chen B, Uhl G, Patel-Larson A, Williams W.
         AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 19.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     43. Adopting healthy and sustainable food service guidelines: emerging evidence from implementation at the United States federal government, New York City, Los Angeles County, and Kaiser Permanente
         Kimmons J, Wood M, Villarante JC, Lederer A.
         Adv Nutr. 2012 ;3(5):746-8.
         
     44. Exogenous predictors of national performance measures for emergency department crowding
         Pines JM, Decker SL, Hu T.
         Ann Emerg Med. 2012 Sep;60(3):293-8.
         

   • Reproductive Health

     45. Emergency contraception and risk for sexually transmitted infections among U.S. women
         Habel MA, Leichliter JS.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2012 Sep;21(9):910-6.
         

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     46. Psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and burnout among international humanitarian aid workers: a longitudinal study
         Lopes Cardozo B, Gotway Crawford C, Eriksson C, Zhu J, Sabin M, Ager A, Foy D, Snider L, Scholte W, Kaiser R, Olff M, Rijnen B, Simon W.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(9):e44948.
         
   
   

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

     47. Chikungunya outbreak - Cambodia, February - March 2012
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Sep 21;61(37):737-40.
         
     48. Evaluation of a neighborhood rat-management program - New York City, December 2007 - August 2009
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Sep 21;61(37):733-6.
         
     49. Update on vaccine-derived polioviruses - worldwide, April 2011 - June 2012
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Sep 21;61(37):741-6.
         

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     50. Cancer statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2012
         Siegel R, Naishadham D, Jemal A.
         CA Cancer J Clin. 2012 Sep;62(5).
         
     51. Prevalence of periodontitis in adults in the United States: 2009 and 2010
         Eke PI, Dye BA, Wei L, Thornton-Evans GO, Genco RJ.
         J Dent Res. 2012 Oct;91(10):914-920.
         
     52. Prevalence of obesity among adults from rural and urban areas of the United States: findings from NHANES (2005-2006)
         Befort C, Perri M.
         J Rural Health. 2012 .
         

   • Food Safety

     53. Epidemiology of foodborne norovirus outbreaks, United States, 2001-2008
         Hall A, Eisenbart V, Etingue A, Gould L, Lopman B, Parashar U.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 .
         

   • Injury and Violence

     54. Leading causes of unintentional and intentional injury mortality: United States, 2000-2009
         Rockett IR, Regier MD, Kapusta ND, Coben JH, Miller TR, Hanzlick RL, Todd KH, Sattin RW, Kennedy LW, Kleinig J, Smith GS.
         Am J Public Health. 2012 .
         
   
   

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