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| Joel C GaydosSummaryAffiliation: Walter Reed Army Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Department of Defense Global Emergings Infections Surveillance and Response SystemJoel C Gaydos
Mil Med 173:v-vi. 2008
Swine influenza a outbreak, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976Joel C Gaydos
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 7500, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:23-8. 2006..Despite efforts to define the events at Fort Dix, many questions remain unanswered, including the following: Where did A/New Jersey come from? Why did transmission stop?..
The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillanceJean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Bull World Health Organ 85:174-80. 2007....
Selected nonvaccine interventions to prevent infectious acute respiratory diseaseTerrence Lee
U S Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, 5158 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 21010 5403, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:305-16. 2005..Vaccines have been used to protect against ARD; however, these are not always available or effective...
Malaria and other vector-borne infection surveillance in the U.S. Department of Defense Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program: review of 2009 accomplishmentsMark M Fukuda
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, 2900 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
BMC Public Health 11:S9. 2011..This review describes recent VBI-related epidemiological studies conducted by AFHSC-GEIS partner laboratories within the OCONUS DoD laboratory network emphasizing their impact on human populations...
Cost and effectiveness of Chlamydia screening among male military recruits: Markov modeling of complications averted through notification of prior female partnersRemington L Nevin
Army Medical Surveillance Activity, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:705-13. 2008..Males comprise the majority of US military recruits and represent an ideal population in which to achieve identification and interruption of sexually transmitted infection among infected partners through mass tandem screening...
Capacity-building efforts by the AFHSC-GEIS programJose L Sanchez
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
BMC Public Health 11:S4. 2011..S. government agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State...
The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillanceJean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, USA
World Hosp Health Serv 43:32-7. 2007....
Incidence rates of pelvic inflammatory disease diagnoses among Army and Navy recruits potential impacts of Chlamydia screening policiesMichael S Bloom
Army Medical Surveillance Activity, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:471-7. 2008..Using routinely collected surveillance data, the rates of outpatient pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) following accession into the Army or Navy were compared to assess the potential implications of these policies...
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System Indian Ocean tsunami responseJean-Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Division of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA
Mil Med 171:12-4. 2006..Preexisting collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and host countries was critical for the DoD-GEIS tsunami response...
Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999-2007J Jeremy Sueker
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:23-7. 2010..Areas for further program strengthening are identified...
Evaluation of a rapid quantitative diagnostic test for adenovirus type 4Dennis J Faix
Department of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:391-7. 2004..Individuals with test results positive for Ad4 were hospitalized longer than were individuals with negative test results. Higher virus loads at hospital admission corresponded to longer lengths of stay for Ad4-positive subjects...
Prevalence of seropositivity to spotted fever group rickettsiae and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a large, demographically diverse US samplePaul C F Graf
Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:70-7. 2008..Most epidemiologic studies of tick-borne rickettsial diseases in the United States are small and have limited demographic scope, making broader risk assessment difficult...
Comparison of the urine Leukocyte Esterase Test to a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test for screening non-health care-seeking male soldiers for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infectionsBillie Jo Wood
Johns Hopkins University, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross 1164, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Mil Med 172:770-2. 2007..In this population, the prevalence of gonorrhea was too low to produce reliable estimates of performance characteristics of the LET for gonorrhea. The LET is not warranted for use in screening non-health care-seeking male Army trainees...
Hospitalization rates in female US Army recruits associated with a screening program for Chlamydia trachomatisKathryn L Clark
Allied Technology Group, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Sex Transm Dis 29:1-5. 2002..The pelvic inflammatory disease hospitalization rate in women with C trachomatis who were screened and treated was similar to that observed in uninfected women...
Feasibility and short-term impact of linked education and urine screening interventions for Chlamydia and gonorrhea in male army recruitsChristine M Arcari
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:443-7. 2004..The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of an intervention for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and a screening program for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in male Army recruits...
Evaluation of dry and wet transported intravaginal swabs in detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in female soldiers by PCRCharlotte A Gaydos
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Clin Microbiol 40:758-61. 2002..9% (24 of 27) and 98.3% (753 of 766), respectively. PCR testing of wet and dry transported intravaginal swabs to detect chlamydia and gonorrhea infections was an accurate diagnostic method for military women...
Influenza outbreak and response preparedness in the Air National GuardAnna M Likos
Maryland Air National Guard, 175th Medical Squadron, Baltimore, MD 21220, USA
Mil Med 167:929-33. 2002....
Chlamydia in the United States military: can we win this war?Charlotte A Gaydos
Sex Transm Dis 35:260-2. 2008
The incidence of eye injuries at three U.S. Army installationsDavid A Hsieh
Clinical Information Technology Program Office, U.S. Department of Defense (Health Affairs, 5113 Leesburg Pike, Suite 701, Falls Church, VA 22041-3200, USA
Mil Med 168:101-5. 2003..29%) of the soldiers were not wearing eye protection when injured. This study identifies possible targets for intervention and provides a baseline against which the interventions of the last decade may be assessed for effectiveness...
Sustained high prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in female army recruitsCharlotte A Gaydos
Infectious Disease Division, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:539-44. 2003..Screening and treatment of infected females has been demonstrated to prevent sequelae such as pelvic inflammatory disease...
How contagious are common respiratory tract infections?Joshua D Hartzell
N Engl J Med 349:95. 2003
Vaccine-preventable adenoviral respiratory illness in US military recruits, 1999-2004Kevin L Russell
Department of Defense Center for Deployment Health Research, Naval Health Research Center, P O Box 85122, San Diego, CA 92186 5122, USA
Vaccine 24:2835-42. 2006..Laboratory diagnoses complimented the surveillance efforts...
Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infections among young adultsCharlotte A Gaydos
JAMA 292:801; author reply 801-2. 2004
Adenovirus-associated acute respiratory disease in healthy adolescents and adults: a literature reviewAnjali V Sivan
U S Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, 5158 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 5403, USA
Mil Med 172:1198-203. 2007..Currently availability, sensitive, molecular diagnostic tests may better define the importance of AARD in populations outside the U.S. military...
Emergence of adenovirus type 14 in US military recruits--a new challengeLeonard N Binn
J Infect Dis 196:1436-7. 2007
Clinical presentations for influenza and influenza-like illness in young, immunized soldiersK Mills McNeill
State Epidemiologist, Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, MS 39215, USA
Mil Med 170:94-7. 2005..3% of these had an infiltrate. Clinical findings did not differentiate ILI caused by the various agents. Only 29 cases of influenza occurred in approximately 7,200 person-years of observation, supporting the use of influenza vaccine...
Hepatitis B immunity in United States military recruitsPaul T Scott
Army Medical Surveillance Activity, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
J Infect Dis 191:1835-41. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Screening new recruits for evidence of immunity before hepatitis B immunization is indicated. The prevalence of immunity increased with successive birth cohorts and may reflect the success of childhood immunization programs...
Comparing diagnostic coding and laboratory resultsAsha J Riegodedios
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1151-3. 2005
Experience of a global laboratory network in responding to infectious disease epidemicsJean-Paul Chretien
Lancet Infect Dis 6:538-40. 2006
