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| E D BelaySummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Evaluation of seasonal patterns of Kawasaki syndrome- and rotavirus-associated hospitalizations in California and New York, 2000-2005Adam MacNeil
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Pediatr 9:65. 2009..Kawasaki Syndrome (KS) is an uncommon childhood disease with unknown etiology. It has been suggested that rotavirus infection may play a causative role in the development of KS...
The incidence of Kawasaki syndrome in West Coast health maintenance organizationsE D Belay
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 19:828-32. 2000..Kawasaki syndrome (KS) causes an acute vasculitis of unknown etiology. It is a leading cause of acquired heart disease of children in Japan and the United States...
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in humansE D Belay
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Annu Rev Microbiol 53:283-314. 1999..Additional epidemiologic and recent laboratory data strongly support the UK government's conclusion...
Reye's syndrome in the United States from 1981 through 1997E D Belay
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
N Engl J Med 340:1377-82. 1999..Beginning in 1980, warnings were issued about the use of salicylates in children with those viral infections because of the risk of Reye's syndrome...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States, 1979-1994: using national mortality data to assess the possible occurrence of variant casesR C Holman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 2:333-7. 1996..We found that the age-adjusted CJD death rate in the United States is similar to published estimates of the crude incidence of CJD worldwide and has continued to be stable from 1979 through 1994. The number of CJD deaths in persons..
Lack of association between Kawasaki syndrome and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection: an investigation of a Kawasaki syndrome cluster in San Diego CountyS J Schrag
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 19:17-22. 2000..Recent studies have suggested that Chlamydia pneumoniae, a common respiratory pathogen associated with an increased risk of heart disease, might lead to KS...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after receipt of a previously unimplicated brand of dura mater graftE L Hannah
Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Neurology 56:1080-3. 2001..In September 1998, a 39-year-old Colorado woman was reported as having suspected CJD after receiving a dura mater graft 6 years earlier...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in unusually young patients who consumed venisonE D Belay
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop A-39, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Neurol 58:1673-8. 2001..Ongoing CJD surveillance remains important for continuing to assess the risk, if any, of CWD transmission to humans...
Epidemiology of Reye's syndrome, United States, 1991-1994: comparison of CDC surveillance and hospital admission dataK M Sullivan
School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Neuroepidemiology 19:338-44. 2000..The true annual incidence of RS during the study years was probably between 0.2 and 1.1 cases per million population <18 years of age...
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in the United States, 1979-1994: increased mortality associated with HIV infectionR C Holman
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, USA
Neuroepidemiology 17:303-9. 1998..The reason for the higher prevalence of PML among white males with HIV infection is unknown...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United StatesR A Maddox
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Neurology 66:439-41. 2006..47 per million population. This rate was significantly lower than that for whites and similar to the rate for African Americans...
