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An outbreak of concurrent echovirus 30 and coxsackievirus A1 infections associated with sea swimming among a group of travelers to MexicoElizabeth M Begier
Infectious Diseases Division, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Clin Infect Dis 47:616-23. 2008..Enteroviruses are shed in human stool and can cause a wide spectrum of illness. They are the leading cause of aseptic meningitis...
Pneumonic plague cluster, Uganda, 2004Elizabeth M Begier
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:460-7. 2006..Person-to-person transmission was compatible with transmission by respiratory droplets, rather than aerosols, and only a few close contacts, all within droplet range, became ill...- Undiagnosed HIV infection among New York City jail entrants, 2006: results of a blinded serosurveyElizabeth M Begier
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 346 Broadway, Room 707, New York, NY 10013, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 54:93-101. 2010..To guide further service improvement, we determined HIV prevalence among jail entrants, including proportion undiagnosed... - Outbreak bias in illness reporting and case confirmation in ciguatera fish poisoning surveillance in south FloridaElizabeth M Begier
Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Public Health Rep 121:658-65. 2006.... - NYC condom use and satisfaction and demand for alternative condom products in New York City sexually transmitted disease clinicsRyan C Burke
Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 10013, USA
J Urban Health 88:749-58. 2011..Study results document the condom social marketing campaign's success... - Barriers to HIV testing among HIV/AIDS concurrently diagnosed persons in New York CityCaroline W Mills
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 10013, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:715-21. 2011..To assess barriers to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, health care contacts history, and HIV testing history among patients diagnosed concurrently with HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)... - Evaluation of HIV incidence surveillance in New York City, 2006Hemanth P Nair
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 233 Broadway, 26th Floor, CN 6W, New York, NY 10279, USA
Public Health Rep 126:28-38. 2011..Continued improvements in data completeness and timeliness will improve the currently available information to inform personnel who develop HIV-prevention programs and policy initiatives in NYC and nationally... - The effect of HIV field-based testing on the proportion of notified partners who test for HIV in New York CityTamar C Renaud
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1168-71. 2011..82), but we identified more than double the number of new positives (11 vs 25). All positive and 97% of negative results were received by the person tested... - Impact of accelerated progression to AIDS on public health monitoring of late HIV diagnosisCharulata J Sabharwal
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York 10013, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 25:143-51. 2011..With increased HIV testing initiatives, the irreducible proportion of AIDS cases with accelerated progression must be considered when interpreting late diagnosis data... - Gram-positive rod surveillance for early anthrax detectionElizabeth M Begier
Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut 06134, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1483-6. 2005..193 Bacillus spp., 73 Clostridium spp., 26 Lactobacillus spp., and 49 other genera. Around-the-clock GPR reporting has described GPR epidemiology and enhanced rapid communication with clinical laboratories... - Comparing HIV partner notification effectiveness between blacks and Hispanics in New York CityAngelica Bocour
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York, NY 10013, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:784-8. 2010..Fewer Hispanics needed to be interviewed to identify 1 newly diagnosed partner as compared with blacks (24 vs. 60, P < 0.01), but number needed to be interviewed was similar for identifying partners with any HIV infection... - High HIV prevalence and diagnosis rates in New York City black menEllen W Wiewel
HIV Epidemiology and Field Services Program, Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 346 Broadway, Room 706, CN44, New York, NY 10013, USA
J Community Health 36:141-9. 2011..Success addressing the citywide HIV epidemic will be linked to success in the various portions of this highly affected, heterogeneous population... - Most positive HIV western blot tests do not diagnose new cases in New York City: implications for HIV testing programsDavid B Hanna
HIV Epidemiology and Field Services Program, Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:609-14. 2009..To evaluate HIV testing efforts based on surveillance data... - Excess mortality among injection drug users with AIDS, New York City (1999-2004)Melissa R Pfeiffer
Bureau of Epidemiology Services, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York 10013, USA
Subst Use Misuse 46:245-53. 2011..Accidental drug overdose was the most frequent contributing cause of death among IDUs (20.5%). Overdose prevention initiatives may greatly and immediately reduce deaths among PWA... - Comparing the National Death Index and the Social Security Administration's Death Master File to ascertain death in HIV surveillanceDavid B Hanna
HIV Epidemiology and Field Services Program, Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA
Public Health Rep 124:850-60. 2009..We evaluated record linkages with the National Death Index (NDI) and the Social Security Administration's Death Master File (SSDMF) to find deaths occurring from 2000 through 2004... - A comparison of partner notification effectiveness in African-, Caribbean-, and United States-born HIV-infected Blacks in New York CityAdey Tsega
Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York 10013, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 26:406-10. 2012..However, further work is needed to improve HIV case finding from Partner Services in these groups, and additional measures to promote early diagnosis are needed... - Unprotected anal intercourse and sexually transmitted diseases in high-risk heterosexual womenSamuel M Jenness
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 101:745-50. 2011..We examined the association between unprotected anal intercourse and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among heterosexual women... 
Knowledge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2006 routine HIV testing recommendations among New York City internal medicine residentsCharu L Jain
Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 346 Broadway, Room 701, New York, NY 10013, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:167-76. 2009..Most identified institutional and policy barriers to routine testing. Efforts should be made to improve dissemination of guidelines and address institutional and policy barriers to allow more people to learn their HIV status...- The free condom initiative: promoting condom availability and use in New York CityTamar C Renaud
Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 10013, USA
Public Health Rep 124:481-9. 2009..Special efforts are needed to ensure availability at gay bars... - The NYC Condom: use and acceptability of New York City's branded condomRyan C Burke
Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 125 Worth, Room 204, New York, NY 10013, USA
Am J Public Health 99:2178-80. 2009..Six months after the NYC Condom launch, we found high levels of awareness and use. Because many wanted alternative condoms, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began distributing the 3 most-requested alternatives... - Human immunodeficiency virus partner elicitation and notification in new york city: public health does it betterMaureen C Malave
Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 40 Worth Street, 1513, CN A 1, New York, NY 10013, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:869-76. 2008..This study examined whether PN conducted by New York City (NYC) Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) is more successful than PN conducted by community clinicians... - A mathematical model of comprehensive test-and-treat services and HIV incidence among men who have sex with men in the United StatesStephen W Sorensen
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e29098. 2012.... - Provider and client acceptance of a health department enhanced approach to Improve HIV partner notification in New York CityChi Chi N Udeagu
Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York 10013, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:266-71. 2010..To assess provider and client acceptance of health department-delivered HIV partner services (PS) delivered in clinical and community settings... - A population survey of smallpox knowledge, perceptions, and healthcare-seeking behavior surrounding the Iraq invasion--Connecticut 2002-03Katherine M Marshall
Infectious Disease Division, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT 06134, USA
Biosecur Bioterror 3:246-55. 2005..We assessed public knowledge, perceptions, and related healthcare-seeking behavior in Connecticut during the period of heightened interest in smallpox preparedness surrounding the Iraq invasion... - Life-threatening sepsis caused by Burkholderia cepacia from contaminated intravenous flush solutions prepared by a compounding pharmacy in another stateMelissa R Held
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pediatrics 118:e212-5. 2006..Proper quality controls at a local and national level are important for ensuring safe delivery of compounded medications to patients in all settings, including those outside health care facilities... - Why don't physicians test for HIV? A review of the US literatureRyan C Burke
Bureau of HIV AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 346 Broadway, New York, NY 10013, USA
AIDS 21:1617-24. 2007..Given that many physicians do not routinely test for HIV, the objective of this study was to summarize our current understanding of why US physicians do not offer HIV testing... - A high-morbidity outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among players on a college football team, facilitated by cosmetic body shaving and turf burnsElizabeth M Begier
Infectious Diseases Division, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT 06134, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1446-53. 2004..Athletics-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have become a high-profile national problem with substantial morbidity... - The National Capitol Region's Emergency Department syndromic surveillance system: do chief complaint and discharge diagnosis yield different results?Elizabeth M Begier
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:393-6. 2003..Agreement between chief complaint and discharge diagnosis was good overall (kappa=0.639), but neurologic and sepsis syndromes had markedly lower agreement than other syndromes (kappa statistics 0.085 and 0.105, respectively)... - HIV counseling and testing: less targeting, more testingDouglas J Koo
Am J Public Health 96:962-4. 2006 - Same-sex attraction disclosure to health care providers among New York City men who have sex with men: implications for HIV testing approachesKyle T Bernstein
Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1458-64. 2008..We examined the association between disclosing to their medical providers (eg, physicians, nurses, physician assistants) same-sex attraction and self-reported HIV testing among MSM in New York City, New York...