Science Clips - Volume 7, Issue 15, April 14, 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. 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. Enhancing screening and early detection among women transitioning to Medicare from the NBCCEDP in Georgia
        Adams EK, Bayakly AR, Berzen AK, Blake S, Joski P, Li C, Hall IJ, Sabatino SA.
        Cancer Causes Control. 2015 Mar 27.
        
     2. Provider management of equivocal cervical cancer screening results among underserved women, 2009-2011: follow-up of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance
        Watson M, Benard V, Lin L, Rockwell T, Royalty J.
        Cancer Causes Control. 2015 Mar 21.
        
     3. Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2011, featuring incidence of breast cancer subtypes by race/ethnicity, poverty, and state
        Kohler BA, Sherman RL, Howlader N, Jemal A, Ryerson AB, Henry KA, Boscoe FP, Cronin KA, Lake A, Noone AM, Henley SJ, Eheman CR, Anderson RN, Penberthy L.
        J Natl Cancer Inst. 2015 Jun;107(6).
        
     4. CDC Grand Rounds: the future of cancer screening
        Thomas CC, Richards TB, Plescia M, Wong FL, Ballard R, Levin TR, Calonge BN, Brawley OW, Iskander J.
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):324-7.
        

   • Communicable Diseases

     5. HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among Mozambicans working in South African mines
        Baltazar CS, Horth R, Inguane C, Sathane I, Cesar F, Ricardo H, Botao C, Augusto A, Cooley L, Cummings B, Raymond HF, Young PW.
        AIDS Behav. 2015 Feb;19 Suppl 1:59-67.
        
     6. Prevalence of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and risk behaviours among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya: results of a respondent driven sampling study
        Musyoki H, Kellogg TA, Geibel S, Muraguri N, Okal J, Tun W, Fisher Raymond H, Dadabhai S, Sheehy M, Kim AA.
        AIDS Behav. 2015 Feb;19 Suppl 1:46-58.
        
     7. Men who have sex with men in Mozambique: identifying a hidden population at high-risk for HIV
        Nala R, Cummings B, Horth R, Inguane C, Benedetti M, Chissano M, Sathane I, Young P, da Silva D, Mirjahangir J, Grasso M, Fisher Raymond H, McFarland W, Lane T.
        AIDS Behav. 2015 Feb;19(2):393-404.
        
     8. HIV and STI prevalence and injection behaviors among people who inject drugs in Nairobi: results from a 2011 bio-behavioral study using respondent-driven sampling
        Tun W, Sheehy M, Broz D, Okal J, Muraguri N, Raymond HF, Musyoki H, Kim AA, Muthui M, Geibel S.
        AIDS Behav. 2015 Feb;19 Suppl 1:24-35.
        
     9. Characterizing the epidemiology, virology, and clinical features of influenza in China's first severe acute respiratory infection sentinel surveillance system, February 2011 - October 2013
        Peng Z, Feng L, Green CM, Wang K, Zhu G, Zhang Y, Hu J, Huang Y, Pan H, Guo N, Xing C, Chu Y, Cao Z, Yu D, Liu L, Chen Z, Zeng F, Xu W, Xiong X, Cheng X, Guo H, Chen W, Li L, Jiang H, Zheng J, Xu Z, Yu H.
        BMC Infect Dis. 2015 ;15(1).
        
     10. Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention to reduce risky sexual behaviour among female sex workers in Shanghai, China
         Liu J, Calzavara L, Mendelsohn JB, O'Leary A, Kang L, Pan Q, Myers T, Ren J, Cha Y, Shi G, Liu X, Tian X, Fan H, Ni Y, Remis RS.
         BMC Public Health. 2015 ;15(1).
         
     11. Targeted hepatitis C antibody testing interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
         Aspinall EJ, Doyle JS, Corson S, Hellard ME, Hunt D, Goldberg D, Nguyen T, Falck-Ytter Y, Morgan RL, Smith B, Stoove M, Wiktor SZ, Hutchinson S.
         Eur J Epidemiol. 2015 Feb;30(2):115-29.
         
     12. Effect of HIV diagnosis disclosure on psychosocial outcomes in Thai children with perinatal HIV-Infection
         Boon-Yasidhi V, Naiwatanakul T, Chokephaibulkit K, Lolekha R, Leowsrisook P, Chotpitayasunond T, Wolfe M.
         Int J STD AIDS. 2015 Mar 30.
         
     13. Intraventricular granulomatous mass associated with Mycobacterium haemophilum: a rare central nervous system manifestation in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection
         Barr LK, Sharer LR, Khadka Kunwar E, Kapila R, Zaki SR, Drew CP, Bhatnagar J, Liu JK, Chew D.
         J Clin Neurosci. 2015 Mar 24.
         
     14. Importation and domestic transmission of Shigella sonnei resistant to ciprofloxacin - United States, May 2014-February 2015
         Bowen A, Hurd J, Hoover C, Khachadourian Y, Traphagen E, Harvey E, Libby T, Ehlers S, Ongpin M, Norton JC, Bicknese A, Kimura A.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):318-20.
         
     15. Ebola virus disease in a humanitarian aid worker - New York City, October 2014
         Yacisin K, Balter S, Fine A, Weiss D, Ackelsberg J, Prezant D, Wilson R, Starr D, Rakeman J, Raphael M, Quinn C, Toprani A, Clark N, Link N, Daskalakis D, Maybank A, Layton M, Varma JK.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):321-3.
         
     16. Phase 1 trials of rVSV Ebola vaccine in Africa and Europe - preliminary report
         Agnandji ST, Huttner A, Zinser ME, Njuguna P, Dahlke C, Fernandes JF, Yerly S, Dayer JA, Kraehling V, Kasonta R, Adegnika AA, Altfeld M, Auderset F, Bache EB, Biedenkopf N, Borregaard S, Brosnahan JS, Burrow R, Combescure C, Desmeules J, Eickmann M, Fehling SK, Finckh A, Goncalves AR, Grobusch MP, Hooper J, Jambrecina A, Kabwende AL, Kaya G, Kimani D, Lell B, Lemaitre B, Lohse AW, Massinga-Loembe M, Matthey A, Mordmuller B, Nolting A, Ogwang C, Ramharter M, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Schmiedel S, Silvera P, Stahl FR, Staines HM, Strecker T, Stubbe HC, Tsofa B, Zaki S, Fast P, Moorthy V, Kaiser L, Krishna S, Becker S, Kieny MP, Bejon P, Kremsner PG, Addo MM, Siegrist CA.
         N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 1.
         
     17. Evaluation of two influenza surveillance systems in South Africa
         Budgell E, Cohen AL, McAnerney J, Walaza S, Madhi SA, Blumberg L, Dawood H, Kahn K, Tempia S, Venter M, Cohen C.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(3):e0120226.
         
     18. Effects of source- versus household contamination of tubewell water on child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh: a randomized controlled trial
         Ercumen A, Naser AM, Unicomb L, Arnold BF, Colford JM, Luby SP.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(3):e0121907.
         
     19. Variability of hepatitis E serologic assays in a pediatric liver transplant recipient: challenges to diagnosing hepatitis E virus infection in the United States
         Sue PK, Pisanic N, Heaney CD, Mixson-Hayden T, Kamili S, Nelson K, Schwarz KB, Forman M, Valsamakis A, Ticehurst J, Karnsakul W.
         Transpl Infect Dis. 2015 Apr;17(2):284-8.
         

   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services

     20. Trajectories of spiritual change among expatriate humanitarian aid workers: a prospective longitudinal study
         Eriksson CB, Holland JM, Currier JM, Snider LM, Ager AK, Kaiser RE, Simon WS.
         Psycholog Relig Spiritual. 2015 ;7(1):13-23.
         

   • Environmental Health

     21. Prevalence of elevated blood lead levels and risk factors among residents younger than 6 years, Puerto Rico-2010
         Dignam T, Rivera Garcia B, De Leon M, Curtis G, Creanga AA, Azofeifa A, O'Neill M, Blanton C, Kennedy C, Rullan M, Caldwell K, Rullan J, Brown MJ.
         J Public Health Manag Pract. 2015 Mar 27.
         
     22. Cyanobacteria and algae blooms: review of health and environmental data from the Harmful Algal Bloom-Related Illness Surveillance System (HABISS) 2007-2011
         Backer LC, Manassaram-Baptiste D, LePrell R, Bolton B.
         Toxins (Basel). 2015 ;7(4):1048-64.
         

   • Genetics and Genomics

     23. Comparison of whole genome sequences from human and non-human Escherichia coli O26 strains
         Norman KN, Clawson ML, Strockbine NA, Mandrell RE, Johnson R, Ziebell K, Zhao S, Fratamico PM, Stones R, Allard MW, Bono JL.
         Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2015 ;5:21.
         
     24. A linear mitochondrial genome of Cyclospora cayetanensis (Eimeriidae, Eucoccidiorida, Coccidiasina, Apicomplexa) suggests the ancestral start position within mitochondrial genomes of eimeriid coccidia
         Ogedengbe ME, Qvarnstrom Y, da Silva AJ, Arrowood MJ, Barta JR.
         Int J Parasitol. 2015 Mar 23.
         
     25. Development and application of a gp60-based typing assay for Cryptosporidium viatorum
         Stensvold CR, Elwin K, Winiecka-Krusnell J, Chalmers RM, Xiao L, Lebbad M.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Apr 1.
         
     26. Telomere length as an indicator of the robustness of B- and T-cell response to influenza in older adults
         Najarro K, Nguyen H, Chen G, Xu M, Alcorta S, Yao X, Zukley L, Metter EJ, Truong T, Lin Y, Li H, Oelke M, Xu X, Ling SM, Longo DL, Schneck J, Leng S, Ferrucci L, Weng NP.
         J Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 31.
         

   • Health Communication and Education

     27. Life cycle of television public service announcements disseminated through donated airtime
         Cooper CP, Gelb CA, Chu J.
         Prev Med Rep. 2015 ;2:202-205.
         

   • Health Disparities

     28. Programs to increase high school completion: a Community Guide systematic health equity review
         Hahn RA, Knopf JA, Wilson SJ, Truman BI, Milstein B, Johnson RL, Fielding JE, Muntaner CJ, Jones CP, Fullilove MT, Moss RD, Ueffing E, Hunt PC.
         Am J Prev Med. 2015 Mar 26.
         

   • Healthcare Associated Infections

     29. Enhancing resident safety by preventing healthcare-associated infection: a national initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in nursing homes
         Mody L, Meddings J, Edson BS, McNamara SE, Trautner BW, Stone ND, Krein SL, Saint S.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 26.
         
     30. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-associated AmpC Escherichia coli outbreak
         Wendorf KA, Kay M, Baliga C, Weissman SJ, Gluck M, Verma P, D'Angeli M, Swoveland J, Kang MG, Eckmann K, Ross AS, Duchin J.
         Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Mar 30:1-9.
         
     31. Declining incidence of candidemia and the shifting epidemiology of Candida resistance in two US netropolitan areas, 2008-2013: results from population-based surveillance
         Cleveland AA, Harrison LH, Farley MM, Hollick R, Stein B, Chiller TM, Lockhart SR, Park BJ.
         PLoS One. 2015 ;10(3):e0120452.
         

   • Immunity and Immunization

     32. Does influenza vaccination modify influenza disease severity? Data on older adults hospitalized with influenza during the 2012-13 season in the United States
         Arriola CS, Anderson EJ, Baumbach J, Bennett N, Bohm S, Hill M, Lindegren ML, Lung K, Meek J, Mermel E, Miller L, Monroe ML, Morin C, Oni O, Reingold A, Schaffner W, Thomas A, Zansky SM, Finelli L, Chaves SS.
         J Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 27.
         
     33. Deaths averted by influenza vaccination in the U.S. during the seasons 2005/06 through 2013/14
         Foppa IM, Cheng PY, Reynolds SB, Shay DK, Carias C, Bresee JS, Kim IK, Gambhir M, Fry AM.
         Vaccine. 2015 Mar 23.
         
     34. Anthrax vaccine recipients lack antibody against the loop neutralizing determinant: a protective neutralizing epitope from Bacillus anthracis protective antigen
         Oscherwitz J, Quinn CP, Cease KB.
         Vaccine. 2015 Mar 25.
         

   • Injury and Violence

     35. Preventing unintentional injuries in the home using the Health Impact Pyramid
         Mack KA, Liller KD, Baldwin G, Sleet D.
         Health Educ Behav. 2015 Apr;42(1 Suppl):115s-22s.
         
     36. Driving among high school students - United States, 2013
         Shults RA, Olsen E, Williams AF.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):313-7.
         

   • Laboratory Sciences

     37. Collection and laboratory methods for dried blood spots for hemoglobin A1c and total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in population based surveys
         Miller IM, Lacher DA, Chen TC, Zipf GW, Gindi RM, Galinsky AM, Nwankwo T, Terry AL.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2015 Mar 26.
         
     38. Total cholesterol performance of Abell-Levy-Brodie-Kendall reference measurement procedure: certification of Japanese in-vitro diagnostic assay manufacturers through CDC's Cholesterol Reference Method Laboratory Network
         Nakamura M, Iso H, Kitamura A, Imano H, Kiyama M, Yokoyama S, Kayamori Y, Koyama I, Nishimura K, Nakai M, Dasti M, Vesper HW, Miyamoto Y.
         Clin Chim Acta. 2015 Mar 26.
         
     39. Stimulus and transducer effects on threshold
         Flamme GA, Geda K, McGregor KD, Wyllys K, Deiters KK, Murphy WJ, Stephenson MR.
         Int J Audiol. 2015 Feb;54 Suppl 1:S19-29.
         
     40. Methods for detection of West Nile virus antibodies in mosquito blood meals
         Komar N, Panella NA, Young GR, Basile AJ.
         J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2015 ;31(1):1-6.
         
     41. Evaluation of household bleach as an ovicide for the control of Aedes aegypti
         Mackay AJ, Amador M, Felix G, Acevedo V, Barrera R.
         J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2015 ;31(1):77-84.
         
     42. Investigations of immunotoxicity and allergic potential induced by topical application of triclosan in mice
         Anderson SE, Meade BJ, Long CM, Lukomska E, Marshall NB.
         J Immunotoxicol. 2015 Mar 27:1-8.
         
     43. Structure and receptor binding preferences of recombinant hemagglutinins from avian and human h6 and h10 influenza A virus subtypes
         Yang H, Carney PJ, Chang JC, Villanueva JM, Stevens J.
         J Virol. 2015 Apr 15;89(8):4612-23.
         
     44. Pan-Plasmodium band sensitivity for Plasmodium falciparum detection in combination malaria rapid diagnostic tests and implications for clinical management
         Gatton ML, Rees-Channer RR, Glenn J, Barnwell JW, Cheng Q, Chiodini PL, Incardona S, Gonz?lez IJ, Cunningham J.
         Malar J. 2015 ;14(1).
         
     45. High-resolution metabolomics to discover potential parasite-specific biomarkers in a Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic stage culture system
         Park YH, Shi YP, Liang B, Medriano CA, Jeon YH, Torres E, Uppal K, Slutsker L, Jones DP.
         Malar J. 2015 ;14(1).
         
     46. Update on progress in electronic reporting of laboratory results to public health agencies - United States, 2014
         Lamb E, Satre J, Hurd-Kundeti G, Liscek B, Hall CJ, Pinner RW, Conn L, Zajac J, Smallwood M, Smith K.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):328-30.
         
     47. Detection of human exposure to saxitoxin and neosaxitoxin in urine by online-solid phase extraction-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
         Bragg WA, Lemire SW, Coleman RM, Hamelin EI, Johnson RC.
         Toxicon. 2015 Mar 26.
         
     48. Rabies vaccine preserved by vaporization is thermostable and immunogenic
         Smith TG, Siirin M, Wu X, Hanlon CA, Bronshtein V.
         Vaccine. 2015 Mar 23.
         
     49. Effect of time at temperature on wild poliovirus titers in stool specimens
         Walker AT, Williams AJ, Gary HE, Pallansch MA, Wassilak SG, Oberste MS.
         Virology. 2015 Mar 25;482:28-31.
         

   • Maternal and Child Health

     50. Survey of American obstetricians regarding group B streptococcus: opinions and practice patterns
         Edwards RK, Tang Y, Raglan GB, Szychowski JM, Schulkin J, Schrag SJ.
         Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Mar 26.
         
     51. Corticosteroid use and risk for orofacial clefts
         Skuladottir H, Wilcox AJ, Ma C, Lammer EJ, Rasmussen SA, Werler MM, Shaw GM, Carmichael SL.
         Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2015 ;69(10):573-575.
         

   • Nutritional Sciences

     52. Mothers' child-feeding practices are associated with children's sugar-sweetened beverage intake
         Park S, Li R, Birch L.
         J Nutr. 2015 Apr;145(4):806-812.
         
     53. Urine excretion of caffeine and select caffeine metabolites is common in the US population and associated with caffeine intake
         Rybak ME, Sternberg MR, Pao CI, Ahluwalia N, Pfeiffer CM.
         J Nutr. 2015 Apr;145(4):766-774.
         
     54. Estimating the population distribution of usual 24-hour sodium excretion from timed urine void specimens using a statistical approach accounting for correlated measurement errors
         Wang CY, Carriquiry AL, Chen TC, Loria CM, Pfeiffer CM, Liu K, Sempos CT, Perrine CG, Cogswell ME.
         J Nutr. 2015 Apr 1.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health

     55. Personal protective equipment for filovirus epidemics: a call for better evidence
         Sprecher AG, Caluwaerts A, Draper M, Feldmann H, Frey CP, Funk RH, Kobinger G, Le Duc JW, Spiropoulou C, Williams WJ.
         J Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 27.
         

   • Occupational Safety and Health - Mining

     56. A hybrid approach for efficient modeling of medium-frequency propagation in coal mines
         Brocker DE, Sieber PE, Waynert JA, Li J, Werner PL, Werner DH.
         IEEE Antennas Propag Mag. 2015 ;57(1):164-176.
         
     57. The effects of operator position, pallet orientation, and palletizing condition on low back loads in manual bag palletizing operations
         Gallagher S, Heberger JR.
         Int J Ind Ergon. 2015 ;47:84-92.
         
   
   

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