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Summary of notifiable diseases--United States, 2002.

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This article is published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.The article was published on 2004-04-30 and is currently open access. It has received 84 citations till now.

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Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002:

TL;DR: HAIs in hospitals are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and the method described for estimating the number of HAIs makes the best use of existing data at the national level.
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Molecular Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Respiratory Infections Due to Bordetella pertussis and Other Bordetella Subspecies

TL;DR: DTaP vaccines, which are less reactogenic than DTP vaccines, are now in general use in many developed countries, and it is expected that the expansion of their use to adolescents and adults will have a significant impact on reducing pertussis and perhaps decrease the circulation of B. pertussedis.

Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

TL;DR: These revised recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concerning prevention of plague update previous recommendations (MMWR 1982;31:301-4).
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A rapid bioassay for single bacterial cell quantitation using bioconjugated nanoparticles

TL;DR: A bioconjugated nanoparticle-based bioassay for in situ pathogen quantification down to single bacterium within 20 min, confirmed by the plate-counting method and realized by using two independent optical techniques.
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West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior

TL;DR: It is shown that Culex pipiens, the dominant enzootic and bridge vector of WNV in urbanized areas in the northeast and north-central United States, shifted its feeding preferences from birds to humans by 7-fold during late summer and early fall, coinciding with the dispersal of its preferred host (American robins, Turdus migratorius) and the rise in human WNV infections.
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