Issue 46, November 12, 2014

CDC Science Clips: Volume 6, Issue 46, November 12, 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

     
     • Impact of state-specific Medicaid reimbursement and eligibility policies on receipt of cancer screening
       Halpern MT, Romaire MA, Haber SG, Tangka FK, Sabatino SA, Howard DH.
       Cancer. 2014 Oct 1;120(19):3016-24.
       

   • Communicable Diseases

     
     • Harmonization of Bordetella pertussis real-time PCR diagnostics in the US, 2012
       Williams MM, Taylor TH, Warshauer DM, Martin MD, Valley AM, Tondella ML.
       J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Oct 29.
       
     • Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication - Afghanistan and Pakistan, January 2013-August 2014
       Farag NH, Alexander J, Hadler S, Quddus A, Durry E, Wadood MZ, Tangermann RH, Ehrhardt D.
       MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 31;63(43):973-977.
       

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     
     • Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers: using a public health systems approach to improve all-hazards preparedness and response
       Leinhos M, Qari SH, Williams-Johnson M.
       Public Health Rep. 2014 ;129 Suppl 4:8-18.
       

   • Environmental Health

     
     • Applying a general best practices identification framework to environmental health
       Kochtitzky CS.
       J Environ Health. 2014 ;77(4):40-43.
       

   • Epidemiology and Surveillance

     
     • CDC National Health Report: leading causes of morbidity and mortality and associated behavioral risk and protective factors-United States, 2005-2013
       Johnson NB, Hayes LD, Brown K, Hoo EC, Ethier KA.
       MMWR Surveill Summ. 2014 Oct 31;63:3-27.
       

   • Maternal and Child Health

     
     • Using standardized diagnostic instruments to classify children with autism in the Study to Explore Early Development
       Wiggins LD, Reynolds A, Rice CE, Moody EJ, Bernal P, Blaskey L, Rosenberg SA, et al .
       J Autism Dev Disord. 2014 Oct 28.
       

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     
     • Characterization of cleaning and disinfecting tasks and product use among hospital occupations
       Saito R, Abbas Virji M, Henneberger PK, Humann MJ, LeBouf RF, Stanton ML, Liang X, Stefaniak AB.
       Am J Ind Med. 2014 Oct 28.
       

   • Zoonoses

     
     • Chikungunya virus infections among travelers-United States, 2010-2013
       Lindsey NP, Prince HE, Kosoy O, Laven J, Messenger S, Staples JE, Fischer M.
       Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Oct 27.
       
     • Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2013
       Dyer JL, Yager P, Orciari L, Greenberg L, Wallace R, Hanlon CA, Blanton JD.
       J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2014 Nov 15;245(10):1111-1123.
       
   
   

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. Characterization of the anti-factor VIII immunoglobulin profile in patients with hemophilia A using a fluorescence-based immunoassay
        Boylan B, Rice AS, Dunn AL, Tarantino MD, Brettler DB, Barrett JC, Miller CH.
        J Thromb Haemost. 2014 Oct 29.
        
     2. Improving blood pressure control in a large multiethnic California population through changes in health care delivery, 2004-2012
        Shaw KM, Handler J, Wall HK, Kanter MH.
        Prev Chronic Dis. 2014 ;11:E191.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     
     3. Latent tuberculosis infection among foreign-born persons: a prioritized approach
        Baker BJ, Jeffries CD, Moonan PK.
        Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2014 Oct;11(8):1335-6.
        
     4. Investigations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in the United States: trends in molecular typing and macrolide resistance, 2006-2013
        Diaz MH, Benitez AJ, Winchell JM.
        J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Oct 29.
        
     5. Utility of cryptococcal antigen screening and evolution of asymptomatic cryptococcal antigenemia among HIV-infected women starting antiretroviral therapy in Thailand
        Kwan CK, Leelawiwat W, Intalapaporn P, Anekthananon T, Raengsakulrach B, Peters PJ, McNicholl JM, Park BJ, McConnell MS, Weidle PJ.
        J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2014 Sep;13(5):434-7.
        
     6. Update: Ebola virus disease outbreak - West Africa, October 2014
        CDC Incident Management System Ebola Epidemiology Team , Guinea Interministerial Committee for Response Against the Ebola Virus , CDC Guinea Response Team , Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare , CDC Liberia Response Team , Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation , CDC Sierra Leone Response Team , CDC Viral Special Pathogens Branch .
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 31;63(43):978-981.
        
     7. Incidence of Hansen's disease - United States, 1994-2011
        Nolen L, Haberling D, Scollard D, Truman R, Rodriguez-Lainz A, Blum L, Blaney D.
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 31;63(43):969-972.
        

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     
     8. Injuries and illnesses among American Red Cross responders - United States, 2008-2012
        Brinker K, Head CA, Johnson CY, Funk RH.
        Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2014 Oct 29:1-7.
        

   • Environmental Health

     
     9. Environmental odors web site: providing communities and health officials with the tools to address odor issues
        Jackson D, Rosales-Guevara L, Blake R.
        J Environ Health. 2014 ;77(4):38-39.
        

   • Immunity and Immunization

     
     10. Serotypes and genotypes of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae before and after PCV10 implementation in southern Brazil
         Caierao J, Hawkins P, Sant'anna FH, da Cunha GR, d'Azevedo PA, McGee L, Dias C.
         PLoS One. 2014 ;9(10):e111129.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     
     11. Disposable platform provides visual and color-based point-of-care anemia self-testing
         Tyburski EA, Gillespie SE, Stoy WA, Mannino RG, Weiss AJ, Siu AF, Bulloch RH, Thota K, Cardenas A, Session W, Khoury HJ, O'Connor S, et al .
         J Clin Invest. 2014 Oct 1;124(10):4387-94.
         
     12. Performance of Etest and disk diffusion for the detection of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin resistance in Salmonella
         Deak E, Hindler JA, Skov R, Sjolund-Karlsson M, Sokovic A, Humphries RM.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Oct 29.
         
     13. Functional analysis of DENV-2 envelope protein domain 3 type-specific and DENV complex-reactive critical epitope residues
         Pitcher TJ, Sarathy VV, Matsui K, Gromowski GD, Huang CY, Barrett AD.
         J Gen Virol. 2014 Oct 22.
         
     14. Preclinical evaluation of the immunomodulatory lymphocyte trafficking drug FTY720 for HIV prevention in the female genital mucosa of macaques
         Morris M, Aubert RD, Butler K, Henning T, Mitchell J, Jenkins L, Garber D, McNicholl J, Kersh EN.
         J Med Primatol. 2014 Oct;43(5):370-373.
         
     15. Development and optimization of a non-enzymatic method of leukocyte isolation from macaque tissues
         Pereira LE, Makarova N, Dobard C, Aubert RD, Srinivasan P, McNicholl J, Smith JM.
         J Med Primatol. 2014 Oct;43(5):360-363.
         
     16. Pharmacokinetic evaluation of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate released from an intravaginal ring in pigtailed macaques after 6 months of continuous use
         Srinivasan P, Dinh C, Zhang J, Pau CP, McNicholl JM, Lo YT, Herold BC, Teller R, Kiser P, Smith JM.
         J Med Primatol. 2014 Oct;43(5):364-369.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     
     17. Using Bayesian models to assess the effects of under-reporting of cannabis use on the association with birth defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2005
         van Gelder MM, Donders AR, Devine O, Roeleveld N, Reefhuis J.
         Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2014 Sep;28(5):424-33.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     
     18. Migration of beryllium via multiple exposure pathways among work processes in four different facilities
         Armstrong JL, Day GA, Park JY, Stefaniak AB, Stanton ML, Deubner DC, Kent MS, Schuler CR, Virji MA.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2014 Dec;11(12):781-792.
         
     19. Primary prevention of fishing vessel disasters: evaluation of a United States Coast Guard policy intervention
         Lucas DL, Kincl LD, Bovbjerg VE, Branscum AJ, Lincoln JM.
         Mar Policy. 2014 Dec;50:67-73.
         

   • Social and Behavioral Sciences

     
     20. Factors associated with symptoms of depression among Bhutanese refugees in the United States
         Vonnahme LA, Lankau EW, Ao T, Shetty S, Cardozo BL.
         J Immigr Minor Health. 2014 Oct 28.
         
     21. Severity of psychological distress among adults with and without disabilities
         Okoro CA, Dhingra SS.
         Soc Work Public Health. 2014 Nov 10;29(7):671-85.
         

   • Substance Use and Abuse

     
     22. Accuracy of self-reported smoking cessation during pregnancy
         Tong VT, Althabe F, Aleman A, Johnson CC, Dietz PM, Berrueta M, Morello P, Colomar M, Buekens P, Sosnoff CS.
         Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2014 Oct 28.
         
     23. Health care provider advice for adolescent tobacco use: results from the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey
         Schauer GL, Agaku IT, King BA, Malarcher AM.
         Pediatrics. 2014 Sep;134(3):446-55.
         

   • Zoonoses

     
     24. Discovery and characterization of potential prognostic biomarkers for dengue hemorrhagic fever
         Poole-Smith BK, Gilbert A, Gonzalez AL, Beltran M, Tomashek KM, Ward BJ, Hunsperger EA, Ndao M.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Oct 27.
         
     25. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis in different ecological regions of Argentina and its association with Amblyomma tigrinum as a potential vector
         Romer Y, Nava S, Govedic F, Cicuttin G, Denison AM, Singleton J, Kelly AJ, Kato CY, Paddock CD.
         Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Oct 27.
         
     26. Integrated cluster- and case-based surveillance for detecting stage III zoonotic pathogens: an example of Nipah virus surveillance in Bangladesh
         Naser AM, Hossain MJ, Sazzad HM, Homaira N, Gurley ES, Podder G, Afroj S, Banu S, Rollin PE, Daszak P, Ahmed BN, Rahman M, Luby SP.
         Epidemiol Infect. 2014 Oct 24:1-9.
         
     27. Notes from the field: update on Lyme carditis, groups at high risk, and frequency of associated sudden cardiac death - United States
         Forrester JD, Meiman J, Mullins J, Nelson R, Ertel SH, Cartter M, Brown CM, Lijewski V, Schiffman E, Neitzel D, Daly ER, Mathewson AA, Howe W, Lowe LA, Kratz NR, Semple S, Backenson PB, White JL, Kurpiel PM, Rockwell R, Waller K, Johnson DH, Steward C, Batten B, Blau D, DeLeon-Carnes M, Drew C, Muehlenbachs A, Ritter J, Sanders J, Zaki SR, Molins C, Schriefer M, Perea A, Kugeler K, Nelson C, Hinckley A, Mead P.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 31;63(43):982-983.
         
     28. Evidence for co-evolution of West Nile Virus and house sparrows in North America
         Duggal NK, Bosco-Lauth A, Bowen RA, Wheeler SS, Reisen WK, Felix TA, Mann BR, Romo H, Swetnam DM, Barrett AD, Brault AC.
         PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Oct;8(10):e3262.
         
     29. Dengue virus infections among Haitian and expatriate non-governmental organization workers - Leogane and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2012
         Salyer SJ, Ellis EM, Salomon C, Bron C, Juin S, Hemme RR, Hunsperger E, Jentes ES, Magloire R, Tomashek KM, Desormeaux AM, Munoz-Jordan JL, Etienne L, Beltran M, Sharp TM, Moffett D, Tappero J, Margolis HS, Katz MA.
         PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Oct;8(10):e3269.
         
   
   

Back to Top

CDC Science Clips Production Staff

• John Iskander, MD MPH, Editor
• Jane Gidudu, MD, MPH, Acting Editor
• Gail Bang, MLIS, Librarian
• William (Bill) Thomas, MLIS, Librarian
• Victoria Burchfield, MLIS, Librarian
• Kathleen Connick, MSLS, Librarian
• Jarvis Sims, MIT, MLIS, Librarian
• Mathieu Mazarin, BA, Web Developer/Designer

____

DISCLAIMER: Articles listed in the CDC Science Clips are selected by the Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library to provide current awareness of the public health literature. An article's inclusion does not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor does it imply endorsement of the article's methods or findings. CDC and DHHS assume no responsibility for the factual accuracy of the items presented. The selection, omission, or content of items does not imply any endorsement or other position taken by CDC or DHHS. Opinion, findings and conclusions expressed by the original authors of items included in the Clips, or persons quoted therein, are strictly their own and are in no way meant to represent the opinion or views of CDC or DHHS. References to publications, news sources, and non-CDC Websites are provided solely for informational purposes and do not imply endorsement by CDC or DHHS.