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Poultry-handling practices during avian influenza outbreak, ThailandSonja J Olsen
International Emerging Infections Program, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1601-3. 2005..Results suggest that public education campaigns have been effective in reaching those at greatest risk, although some high-risk behavior continues...
Standardizing Chlamydia pneumoniae assays: recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) and the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (Canada)S F Dowell
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 33:492-503. 2001..These standards should be applied in future investigations and periodically modified as indicated...- Seasonal variation in host susceptibility and cycles of certain infectious diseasesS F Dowell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 7:369-74. 2001..If such physiologic changes underlie human resistance to infectious diseases for large portions of the year and the changes can be identified and modified, the therapeutic and preventive implications may be considerable... - Pandemic lessons from IcelandScott F Dowell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:1109-10. 2008 - A new imperative for global pneumonia control: a commentaryScott F Dowell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:441-2. 2007 - Seasonal patterns of invasive pneumococcal diseaseScott F Dowell
International Emerging Infections Program, Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Building 2, Tivanon Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Bangkok, Thailand
Emerg Infect Dis 9:573-9. 2003.... - Acute otitis media: management and surveillance in an era of pneumococcal resistance--a report from the Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Therapeutic Working GroupS F Dowell
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 18:1-9. 1999..vary by geographic region? (4) Where can clinicians learn about resistance patterns in their patient populations? (5) What modifications to laboratory surveillance would improve the utility of the information for clinicians treating AOM?.. - Epidemiology of emerging pneumococcal drug resistance: implications for treatment and preventionJ C Butler
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Vaccine 16:1693-7. 1998..However, the vaccine is underutilized, and a substantial reduction in the morbidity and mortality associated with invasive pneumococcal infections is unlikely until the vaccine is used more widely among persons at risk for disease... - Optimizing culture of Chlamydia pneumoniae by using multiple centrifugationsJ M Pruckler
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 37:3399-401. 1999..Additional centrifugations and a 7-day culture time resulted in a 500- to 5, 000-fold increase in the number of detectable inclusion-forming units... - 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... - Increased carriage of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Malawian children after treatment for malaria with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamineD R Feikin
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 181:1501-5. 2000..7% at the 4-week follow-up. Expanding use of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine to treat chloroquine-resistant malaria may have implications for national pneumonia programs in developing countries where cotrimoxazole is widely used... 
Incidence of respiratory pathogens in persons hospitalized with pneumonia in two provinces in ThailandS J Olsen
Division of Emerging Infections and Surveillance Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Epidemiol Infect 138:1811-22. 2010..These data can help guide health policy towards effective prevention strategies...- Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of streptococcus pneumoniae in Thailand 2002-2004Sunisa Levine
International Emerging Infections Program, Thai MOPH-U.S. CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:176-8. 2006..Nonsusceptibility was common among the serotypes included in the vaccine. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine might be a useful prevention tool in Thailand... - Pneumonia surveillance in Thailand: current practice and future needsJirapat Kanlayanaphotporn
Bureau of Epidmemiology, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 35:711-6. 2004..quot; Seventy-four percent of persons interviewed completed the surveillance report within one day of patient admission... - Limiting the spread of resistant pneumococci: biological and epidemiologic evidence for the effectiveness of alternative interventionsS J Schrag
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 13:588-601. 2000..Several areas of future epidemiologic and laboratory research hold promise to contribute to the reduced spread of pneumococcal resistance... - Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the era of pneumococcal resistance: a report from the Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Therapeutic Working GroupJ D Heffelfinger
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:1399-408. 2000..To provide recommendations for the management of community-acquired pneumonia and the surveillance of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (DRSP)... - Evaluation of Binax NOW, an assay for the detection of pneumococcal antigen in urine samples, performed among pediatric patientsS F Dowell
Respiratory Disease Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 32:824-5. 2001..This test is not likely to be useful for distinguishing children with pneumococcal pneumonia from those who are merely colonized... - Vitamin A therapy for children with respiratory syncytial virus infection: a multicenter trial in the United StatesJ S Bresee
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 15:777-82. 1996..High dose vitamin A therapy is effective in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with measles infection. Children with acute respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection have low serum vitamin A concentrations... - Treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection with vitamin A: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Santiago, ChileS F Dowell
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 15:782-6. 1996..In respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, as with measles, low serum vitamin A concentrations correlate with increased severity of illness... - Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type B Carriage, Central AsiaStephanie H Factor
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1476-9. 2005..Approximately 6% of children carried Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Using pneumococcal and Hib conjugate vaccines may decrease illness in the Central Asian Republics... - The cost of influenza in ThailandJames Mark Simmerman
International Emerging Infections Program, Box 68 CDC, APO, AP 96546, USA
Vaccine 24:4417-26. 2006..The burden of influenza in Thailand is greater than previously appreciated, particularly in young children and the elderly. The impact and cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination for high-risk groups merits further investigation... - An outbreak of leptospirosis, Thailand--the importance of the laboratoryJames Sejvar
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA 30333, USA
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 36:289-95. 2005..This surveillance system for leptospirosis highlights difficulties with surveillance of febrile illnesses in general, and the importance of laboratory confirmation for infections that are difficult to diagnose clinically... - The incidence of pneumonia in rural ThailandSonja J Olsen
International Emerging Infections Program, Thai Ministry of Public Health U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Int J Infect Dis 10:439-45. 2006..In 2002, Thailand began active, population-based surveillance for radiographically confirmed pneumonia in Sa Kaeo Province... - A household survey to assess the burden of influenza in rural ThailandBirgit Clague
International Emerging Infections Program, Thai MOPH - US CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 37:488-93. 2006..This survey adds to information indicating that in rural Thailand, the burden of influenza is substantial and costs associated with an illness episode are up to 20% of an average monthly income... - Rapid diagnostic tests for dengue and leptospirosis: antibody detection is insensitive at presentationAdam L Cohen
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Trop Med Int Health 12:47-51. 2007..To determine the performance of rapid diagnostic tests for dengue and leptospirosis that rely on detecting antibodies that may not be produced when patients present for medical treatment... - Human bocavirus: a novel parvovirus epidemiologically associated with pneumonia requiring hospitalization in ThailandAlicia M Fry
Epidemiology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 195:1038-45. 2007..We detected human bocavirus (HBoV) infection in 4.5% of hospitalized patients with pneumonia in rural Thailand. However, the role of HBoV as a pathogen is unclear... - Who gets hospitalized for influenza pneumonia in Thailand? Implications for vaccine policyMark A Katz
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Office of Workforce and Career Development, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Vaccine 25:3827-33. 2007..Cases were also 7.6 times more likely to have chronic respiratory disease. In Thailand, the young, elderly, and those with chronic disease were at high risk for hospitalized pneumonia from influenza... - Bartonella tamiae sp. nov., a newly recognized pathogen isolated from three human patients from ThailandMichael Kosoy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:772-5. 2008.... - Incidence of pneumococcal bacteremia requiring hospitalization in rural ThailandHenry C Baggett
International Emerging Infections Program, Thailand Ministry of Public Health US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Sa Kaeo, Thailand
Clin Infect Dis 48:S65-74. 2009..We estimated the incidence of pneumococcal bacteremia cases requiring hospitalization in rural Thailand... - Recommendations for treatment of childhood non-severe pneumoniaGavin B Grant
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 9:185-96. 2009..If failure of the first-line agent remains a possible explanation, suitable second-line agents include high-dose amoxicillin-clavulanic acid with or without an affordable macrolide for children over 3 years of age... - Why first-level health workers fail to follow guidelines for managing severe disease in children in the Coast Region, the United Republic of TanzaniaNicholas D Walter
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America
Bull World Health Organ 87:99-107. 2009..To determine why health workers fail to follow integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) guidelines for severely ill children at first-level outpatient health facilities in rural areas of the United Republic of Tanzania... - Identification of Bartonella infections in febrile human patients from Thailand and their potential animal reservoirsMichael Kosoy
Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:1140-5. 2010..The findings suggest that rodents are likely reservoirs for a substantial portion of cases of human Bartonella infections in Thailand... - Japanese encephalitis virus remains an important cause of encephalitis in ThailandSonja J Olsen
Divison of Emerging Infections and Surveillance Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, 1600 Clifton Road, MS C 12, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Int J Infect Dis 14:e888-92. 2010..Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is endemic in Thailand and prevention strategies include vaccination, vector control, and health education... - Epidemiology of severe pneumonia caused by Legionella longbeachae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Chlamydia pneumoniae: 1-year, population-based surveillance for severe pneumonia in ThailandChristina R Phares
Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, Office of Workforce and Career Development, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:e147-55. 2007..Legionella species, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Chlamydia pneumoniae are recognized as important causes of pneumonia in high-income countries, but their significance in middle-income countries, such as Thailand, is unknown... - Transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome on aircraftSonja J Olsen
International Emerging Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nonthaburi, Thailand
N Engl J Med 349:2416-22. 2003..Although many infected persons traveled on commercial aircraft, the risk, if any, of in-flight transmission is unknown... - Development and evaluation of real-time PCR-based fluorescence assays for detection of Chlamydia pneumoniaeMaria Lucia C Tondella
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 40:575-83. 2002..The real-time VD4 assay detected the most positive results of the five assays. We believe that this real-time PCR assay offers advantages over nested PCR assays and may improve the detection of C. pneumoniae in clinical specimens... - Antibiotic resistance and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing rural Malawian childrenDaniel R Feikin
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PHS DHHS, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop C23, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 22:564-7. 2003..Forty-three percent of isolates were serotypes included in the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, and 37% were vaccine-related serotypes, particularly 6A and 19A... - Evaluation of children with recurrent pneumonia diagnosed by World Health Organization criteriaJames D Heffelfinger
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30306, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:108-12. 2002..Many children are treated repeatedly: 23% of children with pneumonia in our rural Haitian district had met the WHO criteria on two or more occasions; but underlying disease in such children has not been systematically studied... - Pneumonia in children in the developing world: new challenges, new solutionsAnne Schuchat
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 15:181-9. 2004..Surveillance tools are needed that will bridge studies of interventions, establish preventable disease burden, and serve as indicators for monitoring new programs... - Treating cardiovascular disease with antimicrobial agents: a survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices among physicians in the United StatesF Gimenez-Sanchez
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 33:171-6. 2001.... - Seasonality of infectious diseases and severe acute respiratory syndrome-what we don't know can hurt usScott F Dowell
International Emerging Infections Program, Thai Ministry of Public Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Lancet Infect Dis 4:704-8. 2004..Because SARS coronavirus RNA can be detected in the stool of some individuals for at least 9 weeks, recurrence of SARS from persistently shedding human or animal reservoirs is biologically plausible... - Influenza in Thailand: a case study for middle income countriesJames Mark Simmerman
International Emerging Infections Program, Thailand MOPH U S CDC Collaboration, Department of Disease Control Bldg 7, 3rd Floor, Ministry of Public Health, Tivanon Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Vaccine 23:182-7. 2004..Thailand's growing economy, well-developed public health infrastructure, and effective national immunization program could enable the country to take more active steps towards influenza control... - Assessing the sensitivity of surveillance for pneumonia in rural ThailandShadi Chamany
Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Office of Workforce and Career Development OWCD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 39:549-56. 2008.... - A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndromeThomas G Ksiazek
Special Pathogens Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
N Engl J Med 348:1953-66. 2003..Because of the death of Dr. Carlo Urbani, we propose that our first isolate be named the Urbani strain of SARS-associated coronavirus... - Physician control of pediatric antimicrobial use in Beijing, China, and its rural environsD Rifkin
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 20:679-84. 2001..Physician education and implementation of treatment guidelines might substantially reduce inappropriate antimicrobial usage and help prevent antimicrobial resistance in this region... - Infection control practices for SARS in Lao People's Democratic Republic, Taiwan, and Thailand: experience from mobile SARS containment teams, 2003Nolan E Lee
Epidemic Intelligence Service assigned to Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Infect Control 32:377-83. 2004..We describe practices observed by mobile SARS containment teams (mobile teams) during outbreak investigations... - Early containment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); experience from Bamrasnaradura Institute, ThailandAchara Chaovavanich
Bamrasnaradura Institute, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
J Med Assoc Thai 87:1182-7. 2004.... - Diagnosing pneumonia in rural Thailand: Digital cameras versus film digitizers for chest radiograph teleradiologyMassoud Javadi
International Emerging Infections Program, Thai MOPH - US CDC Collaboration, 3rd Floor, DDC Building 7, Ministry of Public Health, Muang Nonthaburi, 11000 Thailand
Int J Infect Dis 10:129-35. 2006..The 3-fold lower cost of the digital camera makes this technology an affordable and widely accessible alternative for surveillance systems, vaccine trials, and perhaps clinical use... - Human disease from influenza A (H5N1), Thailand, 2004Tawee Chotpitayasunondh
Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand
Emerg Infect Dis 11:201-9. 2005.... - Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: a study of risk factors in family members, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. Commission de Lutte contre les Epidémies à KikwitS F Dowell
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 179:S87-91. 1999..EHF is transmitted principally by direct physical contact with an ill person or their body fluids during the later stages of illness... - Mortality from pneumonia in children in the United States, 1939 through 1996S F Dowell
Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, USA
N Engl J Med 342:1399-407. 2000..We used data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, the Medicaid program, and published reports to test these hypotheses... - Adverse and beneficial secondary effects of mass treatment with azithromycin to eliminate blindness due to trachoma in NepalA M Fry
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 35:395-402. 2002.... - Severe pneumococcal pneumonia in previously healthy children: the role of preceding influenza infectionK L O'Brien
Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 30:784-9. 2000..Prevention of pneumococcal disease should be included among the potential benefits of influenza vaccination... - Antimicrobial resistance: is it really that bad?Scott F Dowell
International Emerging Infections Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thai Ministry of Public Health, Building 7, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Tivanon Road, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 15:99-104. 2004.... - Trends in liver cancer, Sa Kaeo Province ThailandJoseph J Amon
Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 6:382-6. 2005..To determine liver cancer trends in Sa Kaeo Province, Thailand... - Frequent Haemophilus influenzae type B colonization in rural ThailandSonja J Olsen
International Emerging Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Thai Ministry of Public Health Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Pediatr Infect Dis J 24:739-42. 2005..In this nasopharyngeal carriage study in rural Thailand, 7% of children younger than 5 years of age carried Hib, a prevalence similar to that found in countries with high rates of Hib disease before vaccine introduction... - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus on hospital surfacesScott F Dowell
International Emerging Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:652-7. 2004..Health care workers continued to contract severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), even after barrier precautions were widely implemented... - SARS in Taiwan: an overview and lessons learnedKow Tong Chen
Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Health, Center for Diseases Control, Taiwan
Int J Infect Dis 9:77-85. 2005..This report aims to describe the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan between March and July 2003, and to examine the public health response... - RE: "Seasonal patterns in monthly hemoglobin A1c values"Scott F Dowell
Am J Epidemiol 162:920-1; author reply 921. 2005 - Antimicrobial resistance in countries with limited resources: unique challenges and limited alternativesSayomporn Sirinavin
Division of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 15:94-8. 2004.... - Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adultsLionel A Mandell
McMaster University Medical School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 44:S27-72. 2007 - Update of practice guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adultsLionel A Mandell
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 37:1405-33. 2003 - Surveillance for avian influenza in human beings in ThailandSonja J Olsen
Lancet Infect Dis 6:757-8. 2006 - Introduction. Special issues in pediatric antimicrobial resistanceScott F Dowell
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 15:67-8. 2004 - Probable person-to-person transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1)Kumnuan Ungchusak
Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Thai Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
N Engl J Med 352:333-40. 2005..No evidence of efficient person-to-person transmission has yet been reported. We investigated possible person-to-person transmission in a family cluster of the disease in Thailand... - How a human pandemic could startScott F Dowell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA
Harv Bus Rev 84:22. 2006 - Field performance and new uses of rapid influenza testing in ThailandJames Mark Simmerman
World Health Organization, 63 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi, Vietnam
Int J Infect Dis 11:166-71. 2007..However, the performance and utility of rapid influenza tests under field conditions in rural Southeast Asia has not been evaluated... - Surviving pneumonia--just a short-term lease on life?Scott F Dowell
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 169:895-6. 2004 - Introduction: antimicrobial resistance among pediatric respiratory tract and nosocomial pathogensScott F Dowell
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 15:3-4. 2004 - Little evidence for genetic susceptibility to influenza A (H5N1) from family clustering dataVirginia E Pitzer
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1074-6. 2007..We show that, by chance alone, a high proportion of clusters are expected to be limited to blood relatives when infection is a rare event... - Assessment of the risk of Ebola virus transmission from bodily fluids and fomitesDaniel G Bausch
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Infect Dis 196:S142-7. 2007.... - Control measures for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in TaiwanShiing-Jer Twu
Taiwan Department of Health, Taipei, Taiwan
Emerg Infect Dis 9:718-20. 2003..For the first 6 weeks of the SARS outbreak, recognized spread was limited to one healthcare worker and three household contacts...