CDC Science Clips: Volume 7, Issue 36, September 8, 2015

Each Tuesday, to enhance awareness of emerging scientific knowledge, selected science clips will be posted here for the public health community. The focus is applied public health research and prevention science that has the capacity to improve health now.

1. Top Ten Articles of the Week 

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

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     • Beyond body mass index: advantages of abdominal measurements for recognizing cardiometabolic disorders
       Kahn HS, Bullard KM.
       Am J Med. 2015 Aug 21.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Pneumonia among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza virus infection - United States, 2005-2008
       Garg S, Jain S, Dawood FS, Jhung M, Perez A, D'Mello T, Reingold A, Gershman K, Meek J, Arnold KE, Farley MM, Ryan P, Lynfield R, Morin C, Baumbach J, Hancock EB, Zansky S, Bennett N, Thomas A, Schaffner W, Finelli L.
       BMC Infect Dis. 2015 ;15:369.
       
     • Using molecular HIV surveillance data to understand transmission between subpopulations in the United States
       Oster AM, Wertheim JO, Hernandez AL, Banez Ocfemia MC, Saduvala N, Hall HI.
       J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Aug 21.
       

   • Environmental Health

     • Epidemiology and ecology of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens: Legionella pneumophila, Mycobacterium avium, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
       Falkinham JO, Hilborn ED, Arduino MJ, Pruden A, Edwards MA.
       Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Aug;123(8):749-58.
       

   • Health Communication and Education

     • Communicating science: the role of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's field-based Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, 2009-2014
       Coronado F, Chen GM, Smith CK, Glynn MK.
       J Public Health Manag Pract. 2015 Aug 21.
       

   • Health Disparities

     • Racial and ethnic disparities in vaccination coverage among adult populations in the U.S
       Lu PJ, O'Halloran A, Williams WW, Lindley MC, Farrall S, Bridges CB.
       Am J Prev Med. 2015 Aug 18.
       

   • Injury and Violence

     • Beyond the individual level: novel approaches and considerations for multilevel adolescent dating violence prevention
       Rothman EF, Bair-Merritt MH, Tharp AT.
       Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):445-7.
       

   • Maternal and Child Health

     • The Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: thirty-five year experience assuring newborn screening laboratory quality
       De Jesus VR, Mei JV, Cordovado SK, Cuthbert CD.
       Int J Neonatal Screen. 2015 ;1(1):13-26.
       

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     • Protobacco media exposure and youth susceptibility to smoking cigarettes, cigarette experimentation, and current tobacco use among US youth
       Fulmer EB, Neilands TB, Dube SR, Kuiper NM, Arrazola RA, Glantz SA.
       PLoS One. 2015 ;10(8):e0134734.
       

   • Zoonoses

     • Incidence of clinician-diagnosed Lyme disease, United States, 2005-2010
       Nelson CA, Saha S, Kugeler KJ, Delorey MJ, Shankar MB, Hinckley AF, Mead PS.
       Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1625-31.
       
   
   

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. Coronary heart disease mortality declines in the United States from 1979 through 2011: evidence for stagnation in young adults, especially women
        Wilmot KA, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S, Ford ES, Vaccarino V.
        Circulation. 2015 Aug 24.
        
     2. Potential impact of prescribing metformin according to eGFR rather than serum creatinine
        Tuot DS, Lin F, Shlipak MG, Grubbs V, Hsu CY, Yee J, Shahinian V, Saran R, Saydah S, Williams DE, Powe NR.
        Diabetes Care. 2015 Aug 25.
        
     3. Sex-specific predictors of hearing-aid use in older persons: the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility - Reykjavik Study
        Fisher DE, Li CM, Hoffman HJ, Chiu MS, Themann CL, Petersen H, Jonsson PV, Jonsson H, Jonasson F, Sverrisdottir JE, Launer LJ, Eiriksdottir G, Gudnason V, Cotch MF.
        Int J Audiol. 2015 Sep;54(9):634-41.
        
     4. Gender- and race-specific metabolic score and cardiovascular disease mortality in adults: a structural equation modeling approach - United States, 1988-2006
        Mercado CI, Yang Q, Ford ES, Gregg E, Valderrama AL.
        Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 Sep;23(9):1911-1919.
        
     5. Effect of family income on the relationship between parental education and sealant prevalence, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010
        Al Agili DE, Griffin SO.
        Prev Chronic Dis. 2015 ;12:E138.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     6. On the front line of HIV virological monitoring: barriers and facilitators from a provider perspective in resource-limited settings
        Rutstein SE, Golin CE, Wheeler SB, Kamwendo D, Hosseinipour MC, Weinberger M, Miller WC, Biddle AK, Soko A, Mkandawire M, Mwenda R, Sarr A, Gupta S, Mataya R.
        AIDS Care. 2015 Aug 17:1-10.
        
     7. Border lookout: enhancing tuberculosis control on the United States-Mexico border
        DeSisto C, Broussard K, Escobedo M, Borntrager D, Alvarado-Ramy F, Waterman S.
        Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Aug 24.
        
     8. First case of tricuspid valve endocarditis caused by Gemella bergeri
        Pachirat O, Watt G, Pussadhamma B.
        Case Rep Med. 2015 ;2015:704785.
        
     9. Flu-like and other systemic drug reactions among persons receiving weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid or daily isoniazid for treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in the PREVENT Tuberculosis Study
        Sterling TR, Moro RN, Borisov AS, Phillips E, Shepherd G, Adkinson NF, Weis S, Ho C, Villarino ME.
        Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Aug 15;61(4):527-35.
        
     10. A pilot study of a portable hand washing station for recently displaced refugees during an acute emergency in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia
         Husain F, Hardy C, Zekele L, Clatworthy D, Blanton C, Handzel T.
         Confl Health. 2015 ;9:26.
         
     11. Enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative E. coli in stools of children with acute gastroenteritis in Davidson County, Tennessee
         Foster MA, Iqbal J, Zhang C, McHenry R, Cleveland BE, Romero-Herazo Y, Fonnesbeck C, Payne DC, Chappell JD, Halasa N, Gomez-Duarte OG.
         Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 26.
         
     12. The US Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network
         Chaves SS, Lynfield R, Lindegren ML, Bresee J, Finelli L.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1543-50.
         
     13. Emerging Infections Program as surveillance for antimicrobial drug resistance
         Fridkin SK, Cleveland AA, See I, Lynfield R.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1578-81.
         
     14. Twenty years of Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
         Langley G, Schaffner W, Farley MM, Lynfield R, Bennett NM, Reingold A, Thomas A, Harrison LH, Nichols M, Petit S, Miller L, Moore MR, Schrag SJ, Lessa FC, Skoff TH, MacNeil JR, Briere EC, Weston EJ, Van Beneden C.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1520-8.
         
     15. Improving accuracy of influenza-associated hospitalization rate estimates
         Millman AJ, Reed C, Kirley PD, Aragon D, Meek J, Farley MM, Ryan P, Collins J, Lynfield R, Baumbach J, Zansky S, Bennett NM, Fowler B, Thomas A, Lindegren ML, Atkinson A, Finelli L, Chaves SS.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1595-601.
         
     16. Use of pneumococcal disease epidemiology to set policy and prevent disease during 20 years of the Emerging Infections Program
         Moore MR, Whitney CG.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1551-6.
         
     17. Fatal accelerated cirrhosis after imported HEV genotype 4 infection
         Perumpail RB, Ahmed A, Higgins JP, So SK, Cochran JL, Drobeniuc J, Mixson-Hayden TR, Teo CG.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1679-81.
         
     18. Cultivation of an adaptive domestic network for surveillance and evaluation of emerging infections
         Pinner RW, Lynfield R, Hadler JL, Schaffner W, Farley MM, Frank ME, Schuchat A.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1499-509.
         
     19. Tracking pertussis and evaluating control measures through enhanced pertussis surveillance, Emerging Infections Program, United States
         Skoff TH, Baumbach J, Cieslak PR.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1568-73.
         
     20. Preference for condoms, antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis or both methods to reduce risk for HIV acquisition among uninfected U.S. black and Latino MSM
         Mansergh G, Herbst JH, Mimiaga MJ, Holman J.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Aug 21.
         
     21. Severe enterovirus 68 respiratory illness in children requiring intensive care management
         Schuster JE, Miller JO, Selvarangan R, Weddle G, Thompson MT, Hassan F, Rogers SL, Oberste MS, Nix WA, Jackson MA.
         J Clin Virol. 2015 Sep;70:77-82.
         
     22. Incidence of medically attended influenza during pandemic and post-pandemic seasons through the Influenza Incidence Surveillance Project, 2009-13
         Fowlkes A, Steffens A, Temte J, Lonardo SD, McHugh L, Martin K, Rubino H, Feist M, Davis C, Selzer C, Lojo J, Oni O, Kurkjian K, Thomas A, Boulton R, Bryan N, Lynfield R, Biggerstaff M, Finelli L.
         Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Aug 20.
         
     23. Patient and provider reported reasons for lost to follow up in MDRTB treatment: a qualitative study from a Drug Resistant TB Centre in India
         Deshmukh RD, Dhande DJ, Sachdeva KS, Sreenivas A, Kumar AM, Satyanarayana S, Parmar M, Moonan PK, Lo TQ.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(8):e0135802.
         
     24. Associations between meteorological parameters and influenza activity in Berlin (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Castile and Leon (Spain) and Israeli districts
         Soebiyanto RP, Gross D, Jorgensen P, Buda S, Bromberg M, Kaufman Z, Prosenc K, Socan M, Vega Alonso T, Widdowson MA, Kiang RK.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(8):e0134701.
         

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     25. Exposures and symptoms among workers after an offsite train derailment and vinyl chloride release
         Wilken JA, Graziano L, Vaouli E, Markiewicz K, Helverson R, Brinker K, Shumate AM, Duncan MA.
         Am J Disaster Med. 2015 Spring;10(2):153-165.
         
     26. A decision support framework for characterizing and managing dermal exposures to chemicals during emergency management and operations
         Dotson GS, Hudson NL, Maier A.
         J Emerg Manag. 2015 Jul-Aug;13(4):359-380.
         
     27. A whole community approach to emergency management: strategies and best practices of seven community programs
         Sobelson RK, Wigington CJ, Harp V, Bronson BB.
         J Emerg Manag. 2015 Jul-Aug;13(4):349-357.
         

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     28. Characterizing the insecticide resistance of Anopheles gambiae in Mali
         Cisse MB, Keita C, Dicko A, Dengela D, Coleman J, Lucas B, Mihigo J, Sadou A, Belemvire A, George K, Fornadel C, Beach R.
         Malar J. 2015 ;14(1):327.
         

   • Environmental Health

     29. Confidence interval estimation for pooled-sample biomonitoring from a complex survey design
         Caudill SP.
         Environ Int. 2015 Aug 24;85:40-45.
         
     30. Green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and human health
         Coutts C, Hahn M.
         Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Aug;12(8):9768-98.
         
     31. Relationship between vapor intrusion and human exposure to trichloroethylene
         Archer NP, Bradford CM, Villanacci JF, Crain NE, Corsi RL, Chambers DM, Burk T, Blount BC.
         J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2015 Aug 11:1-9.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     32. Alexander Duncan Langmuir
         Schultz MG, Schaffner W.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 ;21(9):1635-1637.
         

   • Food Safety

     33. Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network - 2 decades of achievements, 1996-2015
         Henao OL, Jones TF, Vugia DJ, Griffin PM.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1529-36.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     34. Telomere length and age-at-menopause in the US
         Shenassa ED, Rossen LM.
         Maturitas. 2015 Jul 22.
         

   • Health Disparities

     35. The role of socio-economic status and perinatal factors in racial disparities in the risk of cerebral palsy
         Durkin MS, Maenner MJ, Benedict RE, Van Naarden Braun K, Christensen D, Kirby RS, Wingate M, Yeargin-Allsopp M.
         Dev Med Child Neurol. 2015 Sep;57(9):835-43.
         
     36. Emerging Infections Program efforts to address health equity
         Hadler JL, Vugia DJ, Bennett NM, Moore MR.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1589-94.
         
     37. Reducing racial disparities in influenza vaccination among children with asthma
         Lin CJ, Nowalk MP, Zimmerman RK, Moehling KK, Conti T, Allred NJ, Reis EC.
         J Pediatr Health Care. 2015 Aug 5.
         

   • Healthcare Associated Infections

     38. Evaluating epidemiology and improving surveillance of infections associated with health care, United States
         Magill SS, Dumyati G, Ray SM, Fridkin SK.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1537-42.
         
     39. Targeted assessment for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: a new prioritization metric
         Soe MM, Gould CV, Pollock D, Edwards J.
         Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Aug 27:1-6.
         

   • Immune System Disorders

     40. Immunocompromised travelers: demographic characteristics, travel destinations, and pretravel health care from the U.S. Global TravEpiNet Consortium
         Schwartz BS, Rosen J, Han PV, Hynes NA, Hagmann SH, Rao SR, Jentes ES, Ryan ET, LaRocque RC.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Aug 24.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     41. Lessons learned from making and implementing vaccine recommendations in the U.S
         Walton LR, Orenstein WA, Pickering LK.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Aug 18.
         
     42. Childhood immunizations: first-time expectant mothers' knowledge, beliefs, intentions, and behaviors
         Weiner JL, Fisher AM, Nowak GJ, Basket MM, Gellin BG.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Aug 18.
         
     43. National, state, and selected local area vaccination coverage among children aged 19-35 months - United States, 2014
         Hill HA, Elam-Evans LD, Yankey D, Singleton JA, Kolasa M.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Aug 28;64(33):889-896.
         
     44. Vaccination coverage among children in kindergarten - United States, 2014-15 school year
         Seither R, Calhoun K, Knighton CL, Mellerson J, Meador S, Tippins A, Greby SM, Dietz V.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Aug 28;64(33):897-904.
         
     45. Usage of quadrivalent influenza vaccine among children in the United States, 2013-14
         Rodgers L, Pabst LJ, Zhu L, Chaves SS.
         Vaccine. 2015 Aug 19.
         

   • Injury and Violence

     46. Examining explanations for the link between bullying perpetration and physical dating violence perpetration: do they vary by bullying victimization?
         Foshee VA, Benefield TS, McNaughton Reyes HL, Eastman M, Vivolo-Kantor AM, Basile KC, Ennett ST, Faris R.
         Aggress Behav. 2015 Aug 24.
         
     47. Why psychopathy matters: implications for public health and violence prevention
         Reidy DE, Kearns MC, DeGue S, Lilienfeld SO, Massetti G, Kiehl KA.
         Aggress Violent Behav. 2015 ;24:214-225.
         
     48. A first look at gender inequality as a societal risk factor for dating violence
         Gressard LA, Swahn MH, Tharp AT.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):448-57.
         
     49. Predicting adolescent dating violence perpetration: role of exposure to intimate partner violence and parenting practices
         Latzman NE, Vivolo-Kantor AM, Holditch Niolon P, Ghazarian SR.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):476-82.
         
     50. Adolescent dating violence in context
         Mercy JA, Teten Tharp A.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):441-4.
         
     51. Substance use and physical dating violence: the role of contextual moderators
         Reyes HL, Foshee VA, Tharp AT, Ennett ST, Bauer DJ.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):467-75.
         
     52. Sentinel events predicting later unwanted sex among girls: a national survey in Haiti, 2012
         Sumner SA, Marcelin LH, Cela T, Mercy JA, Lea V, Kress H, Hillis SD.
         Child Abuse Negl. 2015 Aug 18.
         
     53. Helmets for Kids: evaluation of a school-based helmet intervention in Cambodia
         Ederer DJ, Bui TV, Parker EM, Roehler DR, Sidik M, Florian MJ, Kim P, Sim S, Ballesteros MF.
         Inj Prev. 2015 Aug 25.
         
     54. Masculine discrepancy stress, substance use, assault and injury in a survey of US men
         Reidy DE, Berke DS, Gentile B, Zeichner A.
         Inj Prev. 2015 Aug 24.
         
     55. Taking stock of behavioral measures of adolescent dating violence
         Smith J, Mulford C, Latzman NE, Tharp AT, Niolon PH, Blachman-Demner D.
         J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 2015 ;24(6):674-692.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     56. International laboratory comparison of influenza microneutralization assays for A(H1N1)pdm09, A(H3N2), and A(H5N1) influenza viruses by CONSISE
         Laurie KL, Engelhardt OG, Wood J, Heath A, Katz JM, Peiris M, Hoschler K, Hungnes O, Zhang W, Van Kerkhove MD.
         Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2015 Aug;22(8):957-64.
         
     57. Improved phenotype-based definition for identifying carbapenemase producers among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
         Chea N, Bulens SN, Kongphet-Tran T, Lynfield R, Shaw KM, Vagnone PS, Kainer MA, Muleta DB, Wilson L, Vaeth E, Dumyati G, Concannon C, Phipps EC, Culbreath K, Janelle SJ, Bamberg WM, Guh AY, Limbago B, Kallen AJ.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1611-6.
         
     58. Effect of culture-independent diagnostic tests on future Emerging Infections Program surveillance
         Langley G, Besser J, Iwamoto M, Lessa FC, Cronquist A, Skoff TH, Chaves S, Boxrud D, Pinner RW, Harrison LH.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1582-8.
         
     59. Performance of a real time PCR for leishmaniasis diagnosis using a L. (L.) infantum hypothetical protein as target in canine samples
         Colombo FA, Pereira-Chioccola VL, da Silva Meira C, Motoie G, Gava R, Hiramoto RM, de Almeida ME, da Silva AJ, Cutolo AA, Menz I.
         Exp Parasitol. 2015 Aug 18.
         
     60. Comparison of phenotypic and genotypic approaches to capsule typing Neisseria meningitidis using invasive and carriage isolate collections
         Jones CH, Mohamed N, Rojas E, Andrew L, Hoyos J, Hawkins JC, McNeil LK, Jiang Q, Mayer LW, Wang X, Gilca R, De Wals P, Pedneault L, Eiden J, Jansen KU, Anderson AS.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Aug 26.
         
     61. Performance evaluation of the CHEMBIO DPP(R) (dual path platform) HIV-1/2 assay in early and established infections
         Masciotra S, Price KA, Sprinkle P, Wesolowski L, Owen SM.
         J Clin Virol. 2015 Sep;70:97-100.
         
     62. Fast technology analysis (FTA) enables identification of species and genotypes of latent microsporidia infections in healthy native Cameroonians
         Ndzi ES, Asonganyi T, Nkinin MB, Xiao L, Didier ES, Bowers LC, Nkinin SW, Kaneshiro ES.
         J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2015 Aug 25.
         
     63. Use of Enterococcus faecalis and Bacillus atrophaeus as surrogates to establish and maintain laboratory proficiency for concentration of water samples using ultrafiltration
         Mapp L, Klonicki P, Takundwa P, Hill VR, Schneeberger C, Knee J, Raynor M, Hwang N, Chambers Y, Miller K, Pope M.
         J Microbiol Methods. 2015 Aug 22.
         
     64. Effect of carbon nanotubes upon emissions from cutting and sanding carbon fiber-epoxy composites
         Heitbrink WA, Lo LM.
         J Nanopart Res. 2015 ;17(8).
         
     65. Interlaboratory evaluation of cellulosic acid-soluble internal air sampling capsules for multi-element analysis
         Andrews RN, Feng HA, Ashley K.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2015 Aug 26:1-28.
         
     66. Molecular strain typing and characterisation of toxigenic Clostridium difficile
         Dingle TC, MacCannell DR.
         Microbiol Methods. 2015 .
         
     67. Generation of monoclonal antibodies against dengue virus type 4 and identification of enhancing epitopes on envelope protein
         Tang CT, Liao MY, Chiu CY, Shen WF, Chiu CY, Cheng PC, Chang GJ, Wu HC.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(8):e0136328.
         
     68. Review and evaluation of hand-arm coordinate systems for measuring vibration exposure, biodynamic responses, and hand forces
         Dong RG, Sinsel EW, Welcome DE, Warren C, Xu XS, McDowell TW, Wu JZ.
         Saf Health Work. 2015 .
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     69. An overview of the CDC's Community-Based Breastfeeding Supplemental Cooperative Agreement
         Rutledge G, Ayers DR, MacGowan C, Murphy P.
         J Hum Lact. 2015 Aug 24.
         
     70. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia cases identified by newborn screening in one- and two-screen states
         Held PK, Shapira SK, Hinton CF, Jones E, Hannon WH, Ojodu J.
         Mol Genet Metab. 2015 Aug 12.
         
     71. Single newborn screen or routine second screening for primary congenital hypothyroidism
         Shapira SK, Hinton CF, Held PK, Jones E, Hannon WH, Ojodu J.
         Mol Genet Metab. 2015 Aug 11.
         

   • Medicine

     72. In which states are physician assistants or nurse practitioners more likely to work in primary care?
         Hing E, Hsiao CJ.
         JAAPA. 2015 Sep;28(9):46-53.
         

   • Mining

     73. Analysis of gob gas venthole production performances for strata gas control in longwall mining
         Karacan CO.
         Int J Rock Mech Min Sci (1997). 2015 ;79:9-18.
         

   • Nutritional Sciences

     74. School-level practices to increase availability of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and reduce sodium in school meals - United States, 2000, 2006, and 2014
         Merlo C, Brener N, Kann L, McManus T, Harris D, Mugavero K.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Aug 28;64(33):905-908.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     75. Styrene-associated health outcomes at a windblade manufacturing plant
         McCague AB, Cox-Ganser JM, Harney JM, Alwis KU, Blount BC, Cummings KJ, Edwards N, Kreiss K.
         Am J Ind Med. 2015 Aug 25.
         
     76. Ultrafine and respirable particle exposure during vehicle fire suppression
         Evans DE, Fent KW.
         Environ Sci Process Impacts. 2015 Aug 26.
         
     77. A demonstration project in New York and Virginia: retrofitting cost-effective roll-over protective structures (CROPS) on tractors
         Hard DL, McKenzie EA, Cantis D, May J, Sorensen J, Bayes B, Madden E, Wyckoff S, Stone B, Maass J.
         J Agric Saf Health. 2015 Jul;21(3):173-185.
         
     78. Deposition of graphene nanomaterial aerosols in human upper airways
         Su WC, Ku BK, Kulkarni P, Cheng YS.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2015 Aug 28:1-34.
         
     79. Exposure estimation and interpretation of occupational risk: enhanced information for the occupational risk manager
         Waters M, McKernan L, Maier A, Jayjock M, Schaeffer V, Brosseau L.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2015 Aug 24:0.
         

   • Parasitic Diseases

     80. Anti-malarial prescription practices among children admitted to six public hospitals in Uganda from 2011 to 2013
         Sserwanga A, Sears D, Kapella BK, Kigozi R, Rubahika D, Staedke SG, Kamya M, Yoon SS, Chang MA, Dorsey G, Mpimbaza A.
         Malar J. 2015 ;14(1):331.
         

   • Physical Activity

     81. Active transportation surveillance - United States, 1999-2012
         Whitfield GP, Paul P, Wendel AM.
         MMWR Surveill Summ. 2015 Aug 28;64(SS-07):1-17.
         

   • Reproductive Health

     82. Menstrual needs and associations with sexual and reproductive risks in rural Kenyan females: a cross-sectional behavioral survey linked with HIV prevalence
         Phillips-Howard PA, Otieno G, Burmen B, Otieno F, Odongo F, Odour C, Nyothach E, Amek N, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Odhiambo F, Zeh C, Kwaro D, Mills LA, Laserson KF.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2015 Aug 21.
         

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     83. Aligning the work of two U.S. Task Forces on behavioral counseling recommendations
         Grossman DC, Elder RW.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3 Suppl 2):S174-83.
         

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     84. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the mainstream smoke of popular U.S. cigarettes
         Vu AT, Taylor KM, Holman MR, Ding YS, Hearn B, Watson CH.
         Chem Res Toxicol. 2015 Aug 17;28(8):1616-26.
         
     85. Injuries from methamphetamine-related chemical incidents - five states, 2001-2012
         Melnikova N, Orr MF, Wu J, Christensen B.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Aug 28;64(33):909-912.
         
     86. The influence of estimated retail tobacco sale price increase on smokers' smoking habit in Jiangxi province, China: a cross-sectional study
         Wang R, Zhu L, Yan W, Zeng G, Engelgau M.
         Tob Induc Dis. 2015 ;13(1):25.
         

   • Zoonoses

     87. Enhancing Lyme disease surveillance by using administrative claims data, Tennessee, USA
         Clayton JL, Jones SG, Dunn JR, Schaffner W, Jones TF.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1632-4.
         
     88. TickNET - a collaborative public health approach to tickborne disease surveillance and research
         Mead P, Hinckley A, Hook S, Beard CB.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;21(9):1574-7.
         
     89. Human plague - United States, 2015
         Kwit N, Nelson C, Kugeler K, Petersen J, Plante L, Yaglom H, Kramer V, Schwartz B, House J, Colton L, Feldpausch A, Drenzek C, Baumbach J, DiMenna M, Fisher E, Debess E, Buttke D, Weinburke M, Percy C, Schriefer M, Gage K, Mead P.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Aug 28;64(33):918-919.
         
   
   

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