Issue 17, April 30, 2012

Vol. 4, Issue: 17, 4/30/12

Welcome to Science Clips, CDC's weekly digest!

The report consists of four components:

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

Two related reviews on mental health from the Community Guide are featured in this week's Science Clips. AB Thota and multiple collaborators find strong evidence of clinical and public health effectiveness for collaborative care for depression, while V Jacob writing with others concludes that collaborative depression care "provides good economic value".

Surveys as surveillance tools, and new state and local surveillance methods, also figure prominently in the week's featured articles. C Li, writing with several CDC colleagues in Preventive Medicine, compare prevalence estimates for chronic conditions and risk behaviors across three of CDC's major surveys: BRFSS, NHIS, and NHANES. Writing for an international collaborative group, V Balaban documents less respiratory illness and shorter duration of illness in surveyed Hajj pilgrims who complied with protective practices including hand hygiene and social distancing. A joint academic-public health group of authors, led by E Samoff, describe the integration of syndromic surveillance into public health practice in North Carolina; they also discuss implications for the sensitivity and efficiency of surveillance systems.

"Winnable battles" often merit special attention in Science Clips, with this week being no exception. Safe injection practices are an important component of healthcare-associated infection prevention. AY Guh and colleagues from the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion review patient notifications for bloodborne pathogen testing resulting from unsafe injection practices. A randomized trial led by LR Metsch finds value for using rapid HIV testing in drug treatment settings, but no additional benefit from providing HIV risk-reduction counseling. Motor vehicle injury prevention, as well as injury prevention more broadly, may depend in part on legal authorities of public health to intervene. DD Stier, writing in the American Journal of Public Health, finds that only 20% of state health departments have full authority over injury prevention.

Diverse aspects of viral diseases comprise our final featured selections. KM Gustin and colleagues from CDC's Influenza Division review recent innovations in laboratory models of influenza infections. The potential severity of Dengue virus infections is well known, but KM Tomashek et al provide data indicating that deaths due to Dengue that were part of a recent outbreak in Puerto Rico may have been preventable.

John Iskander

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     • Collaborative care to improve the management of depressive disorders: a community guide systematic review and meta-analysis
       Thota AB, Sipe TA, Byard GJ, Zometa CS, Hahn RA, McKnight-Eily LR, Chapman DP, Abraido-Lanza AF, Pearson JL, Anderson CW, Gelenberg AJ, Hennessy KD, Duffy FF, Vernon-Smiley ME, Nease DE, Williams SP.
       Am J Prev Med. 2012 May;42(5):525-38.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     • Implementing rapid HIV testing with or without risk-reduction counseling in drug treatment centers: results of a randomized trial
       Metsch LR, Feaster DJ, Gooden L, Matheson T, Mandler RN, Haynes L, Tross S, Kyle T, Gallup D, Kosinski AS, Douaihy A, Schackman BR, Das M, Lindblad R, Erickson S, Korthuis PT, Martino S, Sorensen JL, Szapocznik J, Walensky R, Branson B, Colfax GN.
       Am J Public Health. 2012 Apr 19.
       
     • Protective practices and respiratory illness among US travelers to the 2009 Hajj
       Balaban V, Stauffer WM, Hammad A, Afgarshe M, Abd-Alla M, Ahmed Q, Memish ZA, Saba J, Harton E, Palumbo G, Marano N.
       J Travel Med. 2012 May;19(3):163-168.
       

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     • Dengue deaths in Puerto Rico: lessons learned from the 2007 epidemic
       Tomashek KM, Gregory CJ, Rivera Sanchez A, Bartek MA, Garcia Rivera EJ, Hunsperger E, Munoz-Jordan JL, Sun W.
       PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 Apr;6(4):e1614.
       

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     • A comparison of prevalence estimates for selected health indicators and chronic diseases or conditions from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2008
       Li C, Balluz LS, Ford ES, Okoro CA, Zhao G, Pierannunzi C.
       Prev Med. 2012 Apr 12.
       
     • Integration of syndromic surveillance data into public health practice at state and local levels in North Carolina
       Samoff E, Waller A, Fleischauer A, Ising A, Davis MK, Park M, Haas SW, Dibiase L, MacDonald PD.
       Public Health Rep. 2012 May/June;127(3):310-317.
       

   • Healthcare Associated Infections

     • Patient notification for bloodborne pathogen testing due to unsafe injection practices in the US health care settings, 2001-2011
       Guh AY, Thompson ND, Schaefer MK, Patel PR, Perz JF.
       Med Care. 2012 Apr 19.
       

   • Healthcare Economics

     • Economics of collaborative care for management of depressive disorders: a community guide systematic review
       Jacob V, Chattopadhyay SK, Sipe TA, Thota AB, Byard GJ, Chapman DP.
       Am J Prev Med. 2012 May;42(5):539-49.
       

   • Laboratory Sciences

     • Innovations in modeling influenza virus infections in the laboratory
       Gustin KM, Belser JA, Katz JM, Tumpey TM, Maines TR.
       Trends Microbiol. 2012 Apr 18.
       

   • Public Health Law

     • The status of legal authority for injury prevention practice in state health departments
       Stier DD, Thombley ML, Kohn MA, Jesada RA.
       Am J Public Health. 2012 Apr 19.
       
   
   

2. CDC Authored Publications

   
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.

   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions

     1. Applying the interactive systems framework to the dissemination and adoption of national and state recommendations for hypertension
        Lane RI, Berkowitz JM, Sullivan ST, Rose J, Bernichon T, Favoretto A, Shifflett P, Miles E, Jones M.
        Am J Community Psychol. 2012 Apr 13.
        
     2. Implications of the energy gap for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity
        Dietz WH.
        Am J Prev Med. 2012 May;42(5):560-1.
        
     3. Access to health care and control of ABCs of diabetes
        Zhang X, Bullard KM, Gregg EW, Beckles GL, Williams DE, Barker LE, Albright AL, Imperatore G.
        Diabetes Care. 2012 Apr 20.
        
     4. Primary prevention of type 2 diabetes: integrative public health and primary care opportunities, challenges and strategies
        Green LW, Brancati FL, Albright A.
        Fam Pract. 2012 Apr;29 Suppl 1:i13-23.
        
     5. Lifestyle change and mobility in obese adults with type 2 diabetes
        Rejeski WJ, Ip EH, Bertoni AG, Bray GA, Evans G, Gregg EW, Zhang Q.
        N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 29;366(13):1209-17.
        
     6. Racial/ethnic differences in the percentage of gestational diabetes mellitus cases attributable to overweight and obesity, Florida, 2004-2007
        Kim SY, England L, Sappenfield W, Wilson HG, Bish CL, Salihu HM, Sharma AJ.
        Prev Chronic Dis. 2012 Apr;9:E88.
        
     7. State-specific synthetic estimates of health status groups among inactive older adults with self-reported diabetes, 2000-2009
        Kirtland KA, Zack MM, Caspersen CJ.
        Prev Chronic Dis. 2012 Apr;9:E89.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     8. Safe in the city: effective prevention interventions for human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted infections
        Harshbarger CL, O'Donnell LN, Warner L, Margolis AD, Richardson DB, Novey SR, Glover LC, Klausner JD, Malotte CK, Rietmeijer CA.
        Am J Prev Med. 2012 May;42(5):468-72.
        
     9. Integrating pneumonia prevention and treatment interventions with immunization services in resource-poor countries
        Cohen AL, Hyde TB, Verani J, Watkins M.
        Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Apr 1;90(4):289-94.
        
     10. The population-based burden of influenza-associated hospitalization in rural western Kenya, 2007-2009
         Feikin DR, Ope MO, Aura B, Fuller JA, Gikunju S, Vulule J, Ng'ang'a Z, Njenga MK, Breiman RF, Katz M.
         Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Apr 1;90(4):256-263A.
         
     11. Influenza-associated mortality in temperate and subtropical Chinese cities, 2003-2008
         Feng L, Shay DK, Jiang Y, Zhou H, Chen X, Zheng Y, Jiang L, Zhang Q, Lin H, Wang S, Ying Y, Xu Y, Wang N, Feng Z, Viboud C, Yang W, Yu H.
         Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Apr 1;90(4):279-288B.
         
     12. Influenza-associated mortality in 2009 in four sentinel sites in Bangladesh
         Homaira N, Luby SP, Alamgir A, Islam K, Paul R, Abedin J, Rahman M, Azim T, Podder G, Sohel BM, Brooks A, Fry AM, Widdowson MA, Bresee J, Rahman M, Azziz-Baumgartner E.
         Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Apr 1;90(4):272-8.
         
     13. Impact of USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on clinical outcomes of patients with pneumonia or central line-associated bloodstream infections
         Lessa FC, Mu Y, Ray SM, Dumyati G, Bulens S, Gorwitz RJ, Fosheim G, Devries A, Schaffner W, Nadle J, Gershman K, Fridkin SK.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Apr 20.
         
     14. Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis C in workers at a large food-processing plant in Brazil: challenges of controlling disease spread to the larger community
         Iser BP, Lima HC, De Moraes C, De Almeida RP, Watanabe LT, Alves SL, Lemos AP, Gorla MC, Goncalves MG, Dos Santos DA, Sobel J.
         Epidemiol Infect. 2012 May;140(5):906-15.
         
     15. Hepatitis B in the United States: a major health disparity affecting many foreign-born populations
         Ward JW, Byrd KK.
         Hepatology. 2012 Apr 24.
         
     16. Using tuberculin skin test as an entry point to screen for latent and active tuberculosis in Thai people living with HIV
         Phanuphak N, Varma JK, Kittikraisak W, Teeratakulpisarn N, Phasitlimakul S, Suwanmala P, Pankam T, Burapat T, Tasaneeyapan T, McCarthy KD, Cain KP, Phanuphak P.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Apr 23.
         
     17. Association between missed early visits and mortality among patients of China National Free Antiretroviral Treatment cohort
         Zhang Y, Dou Z, Sun K, Ma Y, Chen RY, Bulterys M, Zhao Y, Zhu H, Liu Z, Zhang F.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 May 1;60(1):59-67.
         
     18. Tuberculosis among Africans living in the United States, 2000-2009
         Abraham BK, Winston CA, Magee E, Miramontes R.
         J Immigr Minor Health. 2012 Apr 26.
         
     19. High and persistent HIV seroincidence in men who have sex with men across 47 U.S. cities
         Ackers ML, Greenberg AE, Lin CY, Bartholow BN, Goodman AH, Longhi M, Gurwith M.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(4):e34972.
         
     20. Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype-2 childhood meningitis in Bangladesh: a newly recognized pneumococcal infection threat
         Saha SK, Al Emran HM, Hossain B, Darmstadt GL, Saha S, Islam M, Chowdhury AI, Foster D, Naheed A, Arifeen SE, Baqui AH, Qazi SA, Luby SP, Breiman RF, Santosham M, Black RE, Crook DW.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(3):e32134.
         

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     21. From SARS to 2009 H1N1 influenza: the evolution of a public health incident management system at CDC
         Papagiotas SS, Frank M, Bruce S, Posid JM.
         Public Health Rep. 2012 May/June;127(3):267-274.
         

   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors

     22. Detection of influenza A virus in live bird markets in Kenya, 2009-2011
         Munyua PM, Githinji JW, Waiboci LW, Njagi LM, Arunga G, Mwasi L, Murithi Mbabu R, Macharia JM, Breiman RF, Njenga MK, Katz MA.
         Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2012 Apr 19.
         
     23. Flea diversity as an element for persistence of plague bacteria in an east African plague focus
         Eisen RJ, Borchert JN, Mpanga JT, Atiku LA, Macmillan K, Boegler KA, Montenieri JA, Monaghan A, Gage KL.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(4):e35598.
         
     24. Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodid ticks from equine-inhabited sites in the southeastern United States
         Roellig DM, Fang QQ.
         Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2012 Apr;12(4):330-2.
         

   • Drug Safety

     25. Nevirapine-associated hepatotoxicity and rash among HIV-infected pregnant women in Kenya
         Peters PJ, Polle N, Zeh C, Masaba R, Borkowf CB, Oyaro B, Omolo P, Ogindo P, Ndivo R, Angira F, Lando R, Fowler MG, Weidle PJ, Thomas TK.
         J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic). 2012 Mar-Apr;11(2):142-9.
         

   • Entomology

     26. Crossbreeding between different geographical populations of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae)
         Levin ML, Studer E, Killmaster L, Zemtsova G, Mumcuoglu KY.
         Exp Appl Acarol. 2012 Apr 21.
         

   • Environmental Health

     27. Heavy metals and couple fecundity, the LIFE Study
         Buck Louis GM, Sundaram R, Schisterman EF, Sweeney AM, Lynch CD, Gore-Langton RE, Chen Z, Kim S, Caldwell KL, Barr DB.
         Chemosphere. 2012 Jun;87(11):1201-7.
         
     28. Polyfluoroalkyl compounds in Texas children from birth through 12 years of age
         Schecter A, Malik-Bass N, Calafat AM, Kato K, Colacino JA, Gent TL, Hynan LS, Harris TR, Malla S, Birnbaum L.
         Environ Health Perspect. 2012 Apr;120(4):590-4.
         
     29. Health impact assessment: a comparison of 45 local, national, and international guidelines
         Hebert KA, Wendel AM, Kennedy SK, Dannenberg AL.
         Environ Impact Assess Rev. 2012 Apr;34:74-82.
         

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     30. Population-based active surveillance cohort studies for influenza: lessons from Peru
         Razuri H, Romero C, Tinoco Y, Guezala MC, Ortiz E, Silva M, Reaves E, Williams M, Laguna-Torres VA, Halsey ES, Gomez J, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Widdowson MA, Bresee J, Moen A, Uyeki TM, Bennett A, Montgomery JM, Bausch DG.
         Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Apr 1;90(4):318-20.
         
     31. Recognizing excellence in maternal and child health (MCH) epidemiology: the 2011 MCH Epidemiology Awards
         Kroelinger CD, Jones J.
         Matern Child Health J. 2012 May;16(4):749-52.
         
     32. A tale of two gonorrhea epidemics: results from the STD surveillance network
         Newman LM, Dowell D, Bernstein K, Donnelly J, Martins S, Stenger M, Stover J, Weinstock H.
         Public Health Rep. 2012 May/June;127(3):282-292.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     33. Age-associated DNA methylation in pediatric populations
         Alisch RS, Barwick BG, Chopra P, Myrick LK, Satten GA, Conneely KN, Warren ST.
         Genome Res. 2012 Apr;22(4):623-32.
         

   • Health Behavior and Risk

     34. Association between HIV-related risk behaviors and HIV testing among high school students in the United States, 2009
         Balaji AB, Eaton DK, Voetsch AC, Wiegand RE, Miller KS, Doshi SR.
         Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012 Apr;166(4):331-6.
         
     35. A comparison of sexual behavior patterns among men who have sex with men and heterosexual men and women
         Glick SN, Morris M, Foxman B, Aral SO, Manhart LE, Holmes KK, Golden MR.
         J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 May 1;60(1):83-90.
         

   • Healthcare Associated Infections

     36. Statewide validation of hospital-reported central line-associated bloodstream infections: Oregon, 2009
         Oh JY, Cunningham MC, Beldavs ZG, Tujo J, Moore SW, Thomas AR, Cieslak PR.
         Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 May;33(5):439-45.
         
     37. Epidemiology and diagnosis of health care-associated infections in the NICU
         Polin RA, Denson S, Brady MT, Papile LA, Baley JE, Carlo WA, Cummings JJ, Kumar P, Tan RC, Watterberg KL, Barfield WD, Jefferies AL, Macones GA, Mainous RO, Raju TN, Wang KS, Couto J, Byington CL, Davies HD, Edwards KM, Glode MP, Jackson MA, Keyserling HL, Maldonado YA, Murray DL, Orenstein WA, Schutze GE, Willoughby RE, Zaoutis TE, Fischer MA, Gellin B, Gorman RL, Lee L, Pratt RD, Read JS, Robinson J, Safadi MA, Seward J, Starke JR, Simon G, Tan TQ, Baker CJ, Bernstein HH, Kimberlin DW, Long SS, Meissner HC, Pickering LK, Rubin LG, Frantz J.
         Pediatrics. 2012 April;129(4):e1104-e1109.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     38. Immunization site pain: case definition and guidelines for collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data
         Gidudu JF, Walco GA, Anna Taddio A, Zempsky WT, Halperin SA, Calugar A, Gibbs NA, Hennig R, Jovancevic M, Netterlid E, O'Connor T, Oleske JM, Varricchio F, Tsai TF, Seifert H, Schuind AE.
         Vaccine. 2012 Apr 17.
         
     39. Immunogenicity of one dose of Vero cell culture-derived Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine in adults previously vaccinated with mouse brain-derived JE vaccine
         Woolpert T, Staples JE, Faix DJ, Nett RJ, Kosoy OI, Biggerstaff BJ, Johnson BW, Sracic M, Fischer M.
         Vaccine. 2012 Apr 26;30(20):3090-6.
         

   • Informatics

     40. Current and potential use of new technologies for reminder notifications
         Dombkowski KJ, Harrington L, Hanauer D, Kennedy A, Clark S.
         Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2012 Apr;51(4):394-7.
         
     41. Physicians in nonprimary care and small practices and those age 55 and older lag in adopting electronic health record systems
         Decker SL, Jamoom EW, Sisk JE.
         Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Apr 25.
         
     42. Most physicians were eligible for federal incentives in 2011, but few had EHR systems that met meaningful-use criteria
         Hsiao CJ, Decker SL, Hing E, Sisk JE.
         Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Apr 24.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     43. Involvement of the autophagy pathway in trafficking of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli through cultured human type II epithelial cells
         Fine KL, Metcalfe MG, White E, Virji M, Karls RK, Quinn FD.
         Cell Microbiol. 2012 Apr 23.
         
     44. Assessing the influence of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism on folate stability during long-term frozen storage, thawing, and repeated freeze/thawing of whole blood
         Fazili Z, Sternberg MR, Pfeiffer CM.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2012 Jun 14;413(11-12):966-72.
         
     45. Rapid, simultaneous detection of Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium perfringens in archived tissues by a novel PCR-based microsphere assay: diagnostic implications for pregnancy-associated toxic shock syndrome cases
         Bhatnagar J, Deleon-Carnes M, Kellar KL, Bandyopadhyay K, Antoniadou ZA, Shieh WJ, Paddock CD, Zaki SR.
         Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2012 ;2012:972845.
         
     46. Application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic models in chemical risk assessment
         Mumtaz M, Fisher J, Blount B, Ruiz P.
         J Toxicol. 2012 ;2012:904603.
         
     47. Influenza virus titration, antigenic characterization, and serological methods for antibody detection
         Klimov A, Balish A, Veguilla V, Sun H, Schiffer J, Lu X, Katz JM, Hancock K.
         Methods Mol Biol. 2012 ;865:25-51.
         
     48. The chemiluminescent neuraminidase inhibition assay: a functional method for detection of influenza virus resistance to the neuraminidase inhibitors
         Okomo-Adhiambo M, Hurt AC, Gubareva LV.
         Methods Mol Biol. 2012 ;865:95-113.
         
     49. Impact of multi-targeted antiretroviral treatment on gut T cell depletion and HIV reservoir seeding during acute HIV infection
         Ananworanich J, Schuetz A, Vandergeeten C, Sereti I, de Souza M, Rerknimitr R, Dewar R, Marovich M, van Griensven F, Sekaly R, Pinyakorn S, Phanuphak N, Trichavaroj R, Rutvisuttinunt W, Chomchey N, Paris R, Peel S, Valcour V, Maldarelli F, Chomont N, Michael N, Phanuphak P, Kim JH.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(3):e33948.
         
     50. A non-VH1-69 heterosubtypic neutralizing human monoclonal antibody protects mice against H1N1 and H5N1 viruses
         De Marco D, Clementi N, Mancini N, Solforosi L, Moreno GJ, Sun X, Tumpey TM, Gubareva LV, Mishin V, Clementi M, Burioni R.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(3):e34415.
         
     51. Chronic occupational exposure to arsenic induces carcinogenic gene signaling networks and neoplastic transformation in human lung epithelial cells
         Stueckle TA, Lu Y, Davis ME, Wang L, Jiang BH, Holaskova I, Schafer R, Barnett JB, Rojanasakul Y.
         Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2012 Apr 13.
         
     52. Nebulized live-attenuated influenza vaccine provides protection in ferrets at a reduced dose
         Smith JH, Papania M, Knaus D, Brooks P, Haas DL, Mair R, Barry J, Tompkins SM, Tripp RA.
         Vaccine. 2012 Apr 19;30(19):3026-33.
         
     53. A small animal peripheral challenge model of yellow fever using interferon-receptor deficient mice and the 17D-204 vaccine strain
         Thibodeaux BA, Garbino NC, Liss NM, Piper J, Blair CD, Roehrig JT.
         Vaccine. 2012 May 2;30(21):3180-7.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     54. Interventions to increase access to care and quality of care for women with gestational diabetes
         Owens-Gary MD, Ware J.
         Diabetes Spectr. 2012 2012 Winter;25(1):26-28.
         

   • Nutritional Sciences

     55. Factors associated with vitamin D deficiency and inadequacy among women of childbearing age in the United States
         Zhao G, Ford ES, Tsai J, Li C, Croft JB.
         ISRN Obstet Gynecol. 2012 ;2012:691486.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     56. Exposure assessment for a cohort of workers at a former uranium processing facility
         Anderson JL, Daniels RD, Fleming DA, Tseng CY.
         J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 Apr 25.
         
     57. Comparison and evaluation of urinary biomarkers for occupational exposure to spray adhesives containing 1- bromopropane
         Mathias PI, Cheever KL, Hanley KW, Marlow KL, Johnson BC, B'Hymer C.
         Toxicol Mech Methods. 2012 Apr 22.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining

     58. Small pneumoconiotic opacities on U.S. coal worker surveillance chest radiographs are not predominantly in the upper lung zones
         Laney AS, Petsonk EL.
         Am J Ind Med. 2012 Apr 19.
         

   • Parasitic Diseases

     59. First report of human babesiosis in Australia
         Senanayake SN, Paparini A, Latimer M, Andriolo K, Dasilva AJ, Wilson H, Xayavong MV, Collignon PJ, Jeans P, Irwin PJ.
         Med J Aust. 2012 Mar 19;196(5):350-2.
         

   • Public Health Law

     60. The power of policy change, federal collaboration and state coordination in HAI prevention
         Srinivasan A, Craig M, Cardo D.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Apr 20.
         
     61. Protecting adolescents' right to seek treatment for sexually transmitted diseases without parental consent: the Arizona experience with Senate Bill 1309
         Goodwin KD, Taylor MM, Fuse Brown EC, Winscott M, Scanlon M, Hodge JG, Mickey T, England B.
         Public Health Rep. 2012 May/June;127(3):253-258.
         

   • Public Health Leadership and Management

     62. The value of public health services and systems research
         Arias I, Thacker SB, Monroe JA.
         Am J Prev Med. 2012 May;42(5 Suppl 1):S82-3.
         
     63. Strengthening national laboratory health systems in the Caribbean region
         Alemnji GA, Branch S, Best A, Kalou M, Parekh B, Waruiru W, Milstrey E, Conn W, Nkengasong JN, Lecher S.
         Glob Public Health. 2012 Apr 23.
         

   • Reproductive Health

     64. Association between acculturation and breastfeeding among Hispanic women: data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System
         Ahluwalia IB, D'Angelo D, Morrow B, McDonald JA.
         J Hum Lact. 2012 May;28(2):167-73.
         

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     65. Maternal drug use and its effect on neonates: a population-based study in Washington State
         Creanga AA, Sabel JC, Ko JY, Wasserman CR, Shapiro-Mendoza CK, Taylor P, Barfield W, Cawthon L, Paulozzi LJ.
         Obstet Gynecol. 2012 May;119(5):924-33.
         

   • Vital Statistics

     66. NCHS dataline
         Smith SS.
         Public Health Rep. 2012 May/June;127(3):344-345.
         
   
   

3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas

   • Communicable Diseases - Tuberculosis

     67. Surgical face masks worn by multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients: impact on infectivity of air on a hospital ward
         Dharmadhikari AS, Mphahlele M, Stoltz A, Venter K, Mathebula R, Masotla T, Lubbe W, et al.
         Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Feb 9.
         
     68. Community-based targeted case-finding for tuberculosis and HIV in household contacts of tuberculosis patients in South Africa
         Shapiro AE, Variava E, Rakgokong MH, Moodley N, Luke B, Salimi S, Chaisson RE, et al.
         Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Mar 15.
         
     69. Randomized pilot trial of 8 weeks of bedaquiline (TMC207) for MDR-TB: long-term outcome, tolerability and effect on emergence of drug resistance
         Diacon AH, Donald PR, Pym A, Grobusch M, Patientia RF, Mahanyele R, Bantubani N, et al.
         Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Mar 5.
         
     70. Impact of antiretroviral therapy on tuberculosis incidence among HIV-positive patients in high-income countries
         HIV Causal Collaboration.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 May;54(9):1364-1372.
         
     71. Bacteremic disseminated tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a prospective cohort study
         Crump JA, Ramadhani HO, Morrissey AB, Saganda W, Mwako MS, Yang LY, Chow SC, et al.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Apr 16.
         
     72. Seasonality of tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2008
         Willis MD, Winston CA, Heilig CM, Cain KP, Walter ND, Mac Kenzie WR.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Apr 3.
         
     73. Impact of a 14-year screening programme on tuberculosis transmission among the homeless in Paris
         Bernard C, Sougakoff W, Fournier A, Larnaudie S, Antoun F, Robert J, Brossier F, et al.
         Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 May;16(5):649-55.
         
     74. Tuberculosis incidence rates during 8 years of follow-up of an antiretroviral treatment cohort in South Africa: comparison with rates in the community
         Gupta A, Wood R, Kaplan R, Bekker LG, Lawn SD.
         PLoS One. 2012 ;7(3):e34156.
         
     75. Rapid molecular detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin drug resistance: retrospective analysis of a national U.K. molecular service over the last decade
         Seoudi N, Mitchell SL, Brown TJ, Dashti F, Amin AK, Drobniewski FA.
         Thorax. 2012 Apr;67(4):361-7.
         
   
   

4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media

   • MMWR in the Media

     76. Occupational phosphine gas poisoning at veterinary hospitals from dogs that ingested zinc phosphide - Michigan, Iowa, and Washington, 2006-2011
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Apr 27;61(16):286-8.
         
     77. Severe coinfection with seasonal influenza A (H3N2) virus and Staphylococcus aureus - Maryland, February-March 2012
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