Issue 27, July 8, 2014

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
     • CDC's Health Equity Resource Toolkit: disseminating guidance for state practitioners to address obesity disparities
       Payne GH, James SD, Hawley L, Corrigan B, Kramer RE, Overton SN, Farris RP, Wasilewski Y.
       Health Promot Pract. 2014 Jun 24.
       
   • Communicable Diseases
     • Routine HIV screening in two health-care settings - New York City and New Orleans, 2011-2013
       Lin X, Dietz PM, Rodriguez V, Lester D, Hernandez P, Moreno-Walton L, Johnson G, Van Handel MM, Skarbinski J, Mattson CL, Stratford D, Belcher L, Branson BM.
       MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Jun 27;63(25):537-41.
       
     • Results from the first six years of national sentinel surveillance for influenza in Kenya, July 2007-June 2013
       Katz MA, Muthoka P, Emukule GO, Kalani R, Njuguna H, Waiboci LW, Ahmed JA, Bigogo G, Feikin DR, Njenga MK, Breiman RF, Mott JA.
       PLoS One. 2014 Jun 23;9(6):e98615.
       
   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services
     • Microbial and chemical contamination during and after flooding in the Ohio River - Kentucky, 2011
       Yard EE, Murphy MW, Schneeberger C, Narayanan J, Hoo E, Freiman A, Lewis LS, Hill VR.
       J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2014 Sep 19;49(11):1236-43.
       
   • Healthcare Associated Infections
     • Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections at an outpatient chemotherapy center
       Dobbs TE, Guh AY, Oakes P, Vince MJ, Forbi JC, Jensen B, Moulton-Meissner H, Byers P.
       Am J Infect Control. 2014 Jul;42(7):731-4.
       
   • Healthcare Economics
     • State-based Medicaid costs for pediatric asthma emergency department visits
       Pearson WS, Goates SA, Harrykissoon SD, Miller SA.
       Prev Chronic Dis. 2014 Jun 26;11:E108.
       
   • Laboratory Sciences
     • A high-throughput robotic sample preparation system and HPLC-MS/MS for measuring urinary anatabine, anabasine, nicotine and major nicotine metabolites
       Wei B, Feng J, Rehmani IJ, Miller S, McGuffey JE, Blount BC, Wang L.
       Clin Chim Acta. 2014 Jun 23.
       
   • Maternal and Child Health
     • Assessment of the consistency of national-level policies and guidelines for malaria in pregnancy in five African countries
       Gomez PP, Gutman J, Roman E, Dickerson A, Andre ZH, Youll S, Eckert E, Hamel MJ.
       Malar J. 2014 Jun 3;13(1):212.
       
   • Substance Use and Abuse
     • Contribution of excessive alcohol consumption to deaths and years of potential life lost in the United States
       Stahre M, Roeber J, Kanny D, Brewer RD, Zhang X.
       Prev Chronic Dis. 2014 Jun 26;11:E109.
       
   • Zoonoses
     • Ebola viral disease outbreak - West Africa, 2014
       Dixon MG, Schafer IJ.
       MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Jun 27;63(25):548-51.
       
   
   
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. Opting out of cervical cancer screening: physicians who do not perform Pap tests
        Cooper CP, Saraiya M.
        Am J Prev Med. 2014 Jun 18.
        
     2. Associations of stressful life events and social strain with incident cardiovascular disease in the Women's Health Initiative
        Kershaw KN, Brenes GA, Charles LE, Coday M, Daviglus ML, Denburg NL, Kroenke CH, Safford MM, Savla T, Tindle HA, Tinker LF, Van Horn L.
        J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Jun 27;3(3).
        
     3. Promoting gynecologic cancer awareness at a critical juncture - where women and providers meet
        Cooper CP, Gelb CA, Rodriguez J, Hawkins NA.
        J Cancer Educ. 2014 Jun;29(2):247-51.
        
     4. Health-related quality of life among people aged >/=65 years with self-reported visual impairment: findings from the 2006-2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
        Crews JE, Chou CF, Zhang X, Zack MM, Saaddine JB.
        Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2014 Jun 23:1-10.
        
   • Communicable Diseases
     5. Beyond the bisexual bridge: sexual health among U.S. men who have sex with men and women
        Jeffries WL.
        Am J Prev Med. 2014 Jun 17.
        
     6. High-risk motorcycle taxi drivers in the HIV/AIDS era: a respondent-driven sampling survey in Kampala, Uganda
        Lindan CP, Anglemyer A, Hladik W, Barker J, Lubwama G, Rutherford G, Ssenkusu J, Opio A, Campbell J.
        Int J STD AIDS. 2014 Jun 26.
        
     7. Exploring risk behaviors and vulnerability for HIV among men who have sex with men in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: poor knowledge, homophobia and sexual violence
        Aho J, Hakim A, Vuylsteke B, Semde G, Gbais HG, Diarrassouba M, Thiam M, Laga M.
        PLoS One. 2014 Jun;9(6):e99591.
        
     8. The role of temperature and humidity on seasonal influenza in tropical areas: Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama, 2008-2013
        Soebiyanto RP, Clara W, Jara J, Castillo L, Sorto OR, Marinero S, de Antinori ME, McCracken JP, Widdowson MA, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Kiang RK.
        PLoS One. 2014 Jun 23;9(6):e100659.
        
   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services
     9. Two storm-related carbon monoxide poisoning outbreaks - Connecticut, October 2011 and October 2012
        Styles T, Przysiecki P, Archambault G, Sosa L, Toal B, Magri J, Cartter M.
        Arch Environ Occup Health. 2014 Jun 27:0.
        
   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors
     10. Phylogeography of Rickettsia rickettsii genotypes associated with fatal Rocky Mountain spotted fever
         Paddock CD, Denison AM, Lash RR, Liu L, Batten BC, Dahlgren FS, Kanamura CT, Angerami RN, Pereira Dos Santos FC, Brasil Martines R, Karpathy SE.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Jun 23.
         
   • Environmental Health
     11. Vibrio metoecus sp.nov., a close relative of Vibrio cholerae isolated from coastal brackish ponds and clinical specimens
         Kirchberger PC, Turnsek M, Hunt DE, Haley BJ, Colwell RR, Polz MF, Tarr CL, Boucher Y.
         Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2014 Jun 27.
         
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     12. Trends in encephalitis-associated deaths in the United States, 1999-2008
         Tack DM, Holman RC, Folkema AM, Mehal JM, Blanton JD, Sejvar JJ.
         Neuroepidemiology. 2014 Jun 24;43(1):1-8.
         
   • Food Safety
     13. Quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis infections associated with international travel
         O'Donnell AT, Vieira AR, Huang JY, Whichard J, Cole D, Karp BE.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Jun 27.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     14. Immunoglobulin genes influence the magnitude of humoral immunity to cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B
         Pandey JP, Kistner-Griffin E, Radwan FF, Kaur N, Namboodiri AM, Black L, Butler MA, Carreon T, Ruder AM.
         J Infect Dis. 2014 Jun 27.
         
   • Healthcare Economics
     15. A literature review of indirect costs associated with stroke
         Joo H, George MG, Fang J, Wang G.
         J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Jun 21.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     16. Uptake of human papillomavirus vaccine among adolescent males and females: Immunization Information System sentinel sites, 2009-2012
         Cullen KA, Stokley S, Markowitz LE.
         Acad Pediatr. 2014 Jun 19.
         
     17. Shigella isolates from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) inform vaccine development
         Livio S, Strockbine N, Panchalingam S, Tennant SM, Barry EM, Marohn ME, Antonio M, Hossain A, Mandomando I, Ochieng JB, Oundo JO, Qureshi S, Ramamurthy T, Tamboura B, Adegbola RA, Hossain MJ, Saha D, Sen S, Faruque AS, Alonso PL, Breiman RF, Zaidi AK, Sur D, Sow SO, Berkeley LY, O'Reilly C, Mintz ED, Biswas K, Cohen D, Farag TH, Nasrin D, Wu Y, Blackwelder WC, Kotloff KL, Nataro JP, Levine MM.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Jun 23.
         
     18. Antibody response to influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 among healthcare personnel receiving trivalent inactivated vaccine: effect of prior monovalent inactivated vaccine
         Gaglani M, Spencer S, Ball S, Song J, Naleway A, Henkle E, Bozeman S, Reynolds S, Sessions W, Hancock K, Thompson M.
         J Infect Dis. 2014 Jun 1;209(11):1705-14.
         
     19. Waning vaccine protection against influenza A (H3N2) illness in children and older adults during a single season
         Belongia EA, Sundaram ME, McClure DL, Meece JK, Ferdinands J, VanWormer JJ.
         Vaccine. 2014 Jun 21.
         
   • Injury and Violence
     20. Components of traumatic brain injury severity indices
         Corrigan JD, Kreider S, Cuthbert J, Whyte J, Dams-O'Connor K, Faul M, Harrison-Felix C, Whiteneck G, Pretz CR.
         J Neurotrauma. 2014 Jun 1;31(11):1000-7.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     21. In vitro efficacy of brincidofovir against variola virus
         Olson VA, Smith SK, Foster S, Li Y, Lanier ER, Gates I, Trost LC, Damon IK.
         Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014 Jun 23.
         
     22. Total testosterone quantitative measurement in serum by LC-MS/MS
         Wang Y, Gay GD, Botelho JC, Caudill SP, Vesper HW.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2014 Jun 21.
         
     23. Chemosensory regulation of a HEAT-repeat protein couples aggregation and sporulation in Myxococcus xanthus
         Darnell CL, Wilson JM, Tiwari N, Fuentes E, Kirby JR.
         J Bacteriol. 2014 Jun 23.
         
     24. Luciferase reporter cells as a platform to detect SMAD-dependent collagen production
         Lohcharoenkal W, Liu Y, Wang L, Yang Y, Rojanasakul Y.
         J Biosci Bioeng. 2014 Jun 25.
         
     25. Challenges of using molecular serotyping for pneumococcal disease surveillance
         Magomani V, Wolter N, Tempia S, du Plessis M, de Gouveia L, von Gottberg A.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jun 23.
         
     26. Identification of occult Fusobacterium nucleatum central nervous system infection using PCR electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PCR/ESI-MS)
         Nagalingam S, Lisgaris M, Rodriguez B, Jacobs MR, Lederman M, Salata RA, Hujer AM, Muehlenbachs A, DeLeon-Carnes M, Farrell JJ, Sampath R, Bonomo RA.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jun 25.
         
     27. A pyrosequencing-based assay for the rapid detection of the 22q11.2 deletion in DNA from buccal and dried blood spot samples
         Koontz D, Baecher K, Kobrynski L, Nikolova S, Gallagher M.
         J Mol Diagn. 2014 Jun 25.
         
     28. Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development - iodine review
         Rohner F, Zimmermann M, Jooste P, Pandav C, Caldwell K, Raghavan R, Raiten DJ.
         J Nutr. 2014 Jun 25.
         
     29. Correlation as a determinant of configurational entropy in supramolecular and protein systems
         Fenley AT, Killian BJ, Hnizdo V, Fedorowicz A, Sharp DS, Gilson MK.
         J Phys Chem B. 2014 Jun 19;118(24):6447-55.
         
     30. Development of an improved RT-LAMP assay for detection of currently circulating rubella viruses
         Abo H, Okamoto K, Anraku M, Otsuki N, Sakata M, Icenogle J, Zheng Q, Kurata T, Kase T, Komase K, Takeda M, Mori Y.
         J Virol Methods. 2014 Jun 24.
         
     31. Host competence and helicase activity differences exhibited by West Nile viral variants expressing NS3-249 amino acid polymorphisms
         Langevin SA, Bowen RA, Reisen WK, Andrade CC, Ramey WN, Maharaj PD, Anishchenko M, Kenney JL, Duggal NK, Romo H, Bera AK, Sanders TA, Bosco-Lauth A, Smith JL, Kuhn R, Brault AC.
         PLoS One. 2014 Jun 27;9(6):e100802.
         
     32. Influenza vaccination accelerates recovery of ferrets from lymphopenia
         Music N, Reber AJ, Lipatov AS, Kamal RP, Blanchfield K, Wilson JR, Donis RO, Katz JM, York IA.
         PLoS One. 2014 Jun 26;9(6):e100926.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     33. Neonatal survival in complex humanitarian emergencies: setting an evidence-based research agenda
         Morof DF, Kerber K, Tomczyk B, Lawn J, Blanton C, Sami S, Amsalu R.
         Confl Health. 2014 May 20;8:8.
         
     34. Association of selenium and copper with lipids in umbilical cord blood
         Wells EM, Navas-Acien A, Apelberg BJ, Herbstman JB, Jarrett JM, Lin YH, Verdon CP, Ward C, Caldwell KL, Hibbeln JR, Halden RU, Witter FR, Goldman LR.
         J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2014 Aug;5(4):281-7.
         
     35. Relationship between gestational weight gain and birthweight among clients enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Hawaii, 2003-2005
         Chihara I, Hayes DK, Chock LR, Fuddy LJ, Rosenberg DL, Handler AS.
         Matern Child Health J. 2014 Jul;18(5):1123-31.
         
     36. Predictors of exclusive breastfeeding at least 8 weeks among Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander race subgroups in Hawaii, 2004-2008
         Hayes DK, Mitchell KM, Donohoe-Mather C, Zaha RL, Melcher C, Fuddy LJ.
         Matern Child Health J. 2014 Jul;18(5):1215-23.
         
     37. Water, sanitation and hygiene conditions in Kenyan rural schools: are schools meeting the needs of menstruating girls?
         Alexander KT, Oduor C, Nyothach E, Laserson KF, Amek N, Eleveld A, Mason L, Rheingans R, Beynon C, Mohammed A, Ombok M, Obor D, Odhiambo F, Quick R, Phillips-Howard PA.
         Water (Switzerland). 2014 May 22;6(5):1453-1466.
         
   • Mining
     38. CFD modelling of nitrogen injection in a longwall gob area
         Yuan L, Smith AC.
         Int J Min Miner Eng. 2014 nd;5(2):164-180.
         
   • Nutritional Sciences
     39. Seafood consumption among pregnant and non-pregnant women of childbearing age in the United States, NHANES 1999-2006
         Razzaghi H, Tinker SC.
         Food Nutr Res. 2014 Jun 11;58.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     40. Evaluation of cumulative PCB exposure estimated by a job exposure matrix versus PCB serum concentrations
         Hopf NB, Ruder AM, Succop P, Waters MA.
         Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2014 May;21(10):6314-23.
         
     41. Historical reconstruction of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures for workers in a capacitor manufacturing plant
         Hopf NB, Ruder AM, Waters MA.
         Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2014 May;21(10):6419-33.
         
     42. Role of H-Ras/ERK signaling in carbon nanotube-induced neoplastic-like transformation of human mesothelial cells
         Lohcharoenkal W, Wang L, Stueckle TA, Park J, Tse W, Dinu CZ, Rojanasakul Y.
         Front Physiol. 2014 Jun 12;5:222.
         
     43. Prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms among agricultural workers in the United States: an analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2004-2008
         Lee SJ, Tak S, Alterman T, Calvert GM.
         J Agromedicine. 2014 Jun 24;19(3):268-80.
         
     44. Working conditions and health in Central America: a survey of 12 024 workers in six countries
         Benavides FG, Wesseling C, Delclos GL, Felknor S, Pinilla J, Rodrigo F.
         Occup Environ Med. 2014 Jul;71(7):459-65.
         
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     45. Building resilience against climate effects - a novel framework to facilitate climate readiness in public health agencies
         Marinucci GD, Luber G, Uejio CK, Saha S, Hess JJ.
         Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Jun 20;11(6):6433-58.
         
   • Reproductive Health
     46. Geographic variation of reproductive health indicators and outcomes in the United States: place matters
         Callaghan WM.
         Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Jun 20.
         
   • Substance Use and Abuse
     47. Tobacco product use among adults - United States, 2012-2013
         Agaku IT, King BA, Husten CG, Bunnell R, Ambrose BK, Hu SS, Holder-Hayes E, Day HR.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Jun 27;63(25):542-7.
         
   • Vital Statistics
     48. Ascertainment of Medicaid payment for delivery on the Iowa birth certificate: is accuracy sufficient for timely policy and program relevant analysis?
         Kane DJ, Sappenfield WM.
         Matern Child Health J. 2014 May;18(4):970-7.
         
   
   

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