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| Scott A ThorntonSummaryAffiliation: Naval Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Epidemic infectious gastrointestinal illness aboard U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle East during peacetime operations--2000-2001Mark S Riddle
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
BMC Gastroenterol 6:9. 2006..Infectious gastrointestinal illness (IGI) outbreaks have been reported in U.S. Navy ships and could potentially have an adverse mission impact. Studies to date have been anecdotal...
Gastroenteritis in US Marines during Operation Iraqi FreedomScott A Thornton
Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit No 6, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 96860, USA
Clin Infect Dis 40:519-25. 2005..A Navy Preventive Medicine laboratory was set up in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, to provide clinical diagnostic support for Marine medical units during a period of repositioning in south-central Iraq...
Endemic infectious diseases of AfghanistanMark R Wallace
Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA, 92134, USA
Clin Infect Dis 34:S171-207. 2002..This review surveys the literature concerning the infectious diseases of Afghanistan and south-central Asia, with particular emphasis on diseases not typically seen in the Western world...
Fifteen-year study of the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusNancy F Crum
Infectious Diseases Division, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, Calif 92134 1005, USA
Am J Med 119:943-51. 2006..The study's purpose was to elucidate the evolutionary, microbiologic, and clinical characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections...
Homologous versus heterologous immune responses to Norwalk-like viruses among crew members after acute gastroenteritis outbreaks on 2 US Navy vesselsTibor Farkas
Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio 45229, USA
J Infect Dis 187:187-93. 2003..These results indicate that recombinant EIAs are useful for outbreak investigation and that the homologous antibody might be protective against reinfection...
