Field Studies on Lyme Disease in North America by Joseph Piesman

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Molecular Identification of Enterocytozoon bieneusi Isolates from Nigerian Children by Adekunle Bamidele Ayinmode, Oladele Teslim Ojuromi, Lihua Xiao

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Invasive Group B Streptococcal Infection with Toxic Shock-Like Syndrome in a Postsplenectomy Patient by Pradeep Kumar Mada, Gabriel Castano, Andrew Stevenson Joel Chandranesan

“…As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 10 cases in every 100,000 nonpregnant adults each year, and 1 in 20 nonpregnant adults with serious GBS infections die. …”
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Raising Healthy Children: Food Allergies by Lauren Headrick, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail P. A. Kauwell

“…According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over three million children under the age of 18 have food allergies, and this number is growing rapidly. …”
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Application of Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for the Detection of Pathogens in Pulmonary Infections by Dai X, Xu K, Tong Y, Li J, Dai L, Shi J, Xie H, Chen X

“…Xianning Dai,1 Kai Xu,1 Yu Tong,1 Jing Li,2 Liya Dai,1 Jianyou Shi,1 Haibin Xie,3 Xi Chen3 1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Wenzhou People’s Hospital, Wenzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of PCCM, Wenzhou People’s Hospital, Wenzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Immunization Planning, Prevention and Health Care, Centers for Disease Control of Luchen, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xi Chen, Department of Immunization Planning, Prevention and health care,Centers for Disease Control of Luchen, No. 3320 Guojing Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325005, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 577 56760657, Fax +86 577 56760654, Email cxbrook0577@163.comObjective: This study aims to evaluate the utility of targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for hospitalized patients with pulmonary infections.Methods: A cohort of 358 patients who received diagnosis and treatment for respiratory infections in the department of Respiratory Medicine at Wenzhou People’s hospital from January 2023 to April 2024 were selected for this study. …”
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Controlling imported malaria cases in the United States of America by Bassidy Dembele, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

“…We extend the mathematical malaria epidemic model framework of Dembele et al. and use it to “capture” the 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported data on the 2011 number of imported malaria cases in the USA. …”
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Renewed Global Partnerships and Redesigned Roadmaps for Rabies Prevention and Control by Tiziana Lembo, Michaël Attlan, Hervé Bourhy, Sarah Cleaveland, Peter Costa, Katinka de Balogh, Betty Dodet, Anthony R. Fooks, Elly Hiby, Fernando Leanes, François-Xavier Meslin, Mary Elizabeth Miranda, Thomas Müller, Louis H. Nel, Charles E. Rupprecht, Noël Tordo, Abbigail Tumpey, Alexander Wandeler, Deborah J. Briggs

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Barriers to health equity in the United States of America: can they be overcome? by Allen M. Chen

“…Abstract Health equity—defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as " the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health—” represents one of the most critical issues facing modern societies. …”
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Epidemiology of Enterocytozoon bieneusi Infection in Humans by Olga Matos, Maria Luisa Lobo, Lihua Xiao

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Evolution of 𝜷-Cell Replacement Therapy in Diabetes Mellitus: Islet Cell Transplantation by Cyrus Jahansouz, Cameron Jahansouz, Sean C. Kumer, Kenneth L. Brayman

“…According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 23.6 million people in the United States are affected. …”
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Weighted EHR-based prevalence estimates for hypertension at the state and local levels in Louisiana by Wenjun Li, Meng Zhang, Jie Cheng, Sandra L. Jackson, Adam S. Vaughan, Michael Klompas, Thomas W. Carton, Elizabeth Nauman, Lee Mendoza, Arun Adhikari, Jeanie Donovan, Katherine H. Hohman

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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“…Recommendations have also been included from additional up-to-date sources such as the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS), Florida Department of Health (DOH), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and American Red Cross. …”
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A Brief Report of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease in the Summer of 2012 in Hamilton, Ontario by Lei Jiao, Cheryl Main

“…According to the clinical and laboratory criteria published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five cases were diagnosed as encephalitis, one case as meningitis and one case as meningomyelitis. …”
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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“…Recommendations have also been included from additional up-to-date sources such as the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS), Florida Department of Health (DOH), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and American Red Cross. …”
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Human Herpesvirus 6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Daniel Eymard, François Lebel, Mark Miller, François Turgeon

“…Seventeen patients (group A) fulfilling the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) definition for CFS were compared with eight patients (group B) with chronic fatigue but not meeting the CDC criteria. …”
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Public health significance of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and its role in the eco-epidemiology of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases in North America by Ilia Rochlin, Joan Kenney, Eliza Little, Goudarz Molaei

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Topical Microbicides for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV by André Désormeaux, Rabeea F Omar, Michel G Bergeron

“…The development of topical microbicides constitutes one of the most priori tized research areas in the field of prevention of STDs/HIV for the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because the number of women infected with HIV, herpes and other pathogens causing STDs is growing dramatically worldwide, there is an urgent need to develop innovative preventive measures that can reduce the transmission of these pathogens with minimal mucosa! …”
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Sampling and Analytical Method for Alpha-Dicarbonyl Flavoring Compounds via Derivatization with o-Phenylenediamine and Analysis Using GC-NPD by Stephanie M. Pendergrass, Jeffrey A. Cooper

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Successful Integration of Hepatitis C Virus Point-of-Care Tests into the Denver Metro Health Clinic by A. Jewett, A. A. Al-Tayyib, L. Ginnett, B. D. Smith

“…Background. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends testing and linkage to care for persons most likely infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), including persons with human immunodeficiency virus. …”
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Translational Research for Occupational Therapy: Using SPRE in Hippotherapy for Children with Developmental Disabilities by Deborah Weissman-Miller, Rosalie J. Miller, Mary P. Shotwell

“…These new methods are applied, using larger data and smaller single-subject data, to a study in hippotherapy for children with developmental disabilities (DD). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates DD affects nearly 10 million children, aged 2–19, where diagnoses may be comorbid. …”
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