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Epidemiol Infect
A large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease occurred at a California state prison in August 2015. We conducted environmental and epidemiological investigations to identify the most likely source of exposure and characterise morbidity. Sixty-four inma
Autor:
Charlotte Wheeler, Janet Mohle-Boetani, Robert Chapnick, Duc J. Vugia, Jean Yuan, Lauren A. Lee
Publikováno v:
Journal of Correctional Health Care. 23:347-352
Since 2005, coccidioidomycosis has increased among inmates at a California prison. Our initial investigation found an incidence of 3,323 cases/100,000 persons. Black race, age ≥41 years, and residence on Yard C were significantly associated with co
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Janet Mohle-Boetani, Janelle M. Gorman, Jamie Miller, Michael C. Samuel, Rilene Chew Ng, Jennifer L. Brodsky, Gail Bolan, Guadalupe Espain
Publikováno v:
Journal of Correctional Health Care. 19:54-64
This field report describes an investigation to identify cases to control a syphilis outbreak in a prison and determine whether clinical, case management, and surveillance practices influenced the outbreak occurrence, detection, or management. Key pe
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Anna H. Bates, Janet Mohle-Boetani, Michele T. Jay-Russell, Robert E. Mandrell, Jean Yuan, Rosa Manalac, William G. Miller, Janice Lidgard, Akiko Kimura
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51:195-201
We describe using major outer membrane protein (MOMP) typing as a screen to compare the Campylobacter jejuni porA gene sequences of clinical outbreak strains from human stool with the porA sequences of dairy farm strains isolated during two milk-born
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Janet Mohle-Boetani, R. A. Beretti, Duc J. Vugia, K. D. Hanni, Michael J. Arrowood, Lihua Xiao, Stephanie P. Johnston, A. E. Karon, Vincent R. Hill
Publikováno v:
Epidemiology and Infection. 139:713-717
SUMMARYIn July and August 2007, a giardiasis outbreak affected attendees of a private recreational camp in California. Twenty-six persons had laboratory-confirmed giardiasis; another 24 had giardiasis-like illness with no stool test. A retrospective
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Duc J. Vugia, K. C. Cummings, Ann McDowell, Jennifer McNary, Rupali Das, Charlotte Wheeler, Janet Mohle-Boetani
Publikováno v:
Epidemiology and Infection. 138:507-511
SUMMARYCoccidioidomycosis results from inhaling spores of the fungusCoccidioidesspp. in soil or airborne dust in endemic areas. We investigated an outbreak of coccidioidomycosis in a 12-person civilian construction crew that excavated soil during an
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 48:1669-1673
Background California has an ongoing epidemic of wound botulism (WB) among injection drug users (IDUs). We retrospectively studied a cohort of patients with WB and determined the sensitivity of the mouse bioassay-the gold standard laboratory test for
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Janet Mohle-Boetani, Elena Tootell, Christopher P. Preas, Adriana S. Lopez, Stephanie R. Bialek, Mona Marin, Bruce Leistikow, Jessica Leung, Nikki Baumrind, Kathleen Harriman, Giorgio Cosentino
Publikováno v:
Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. 20(4)
This article describes the epidemiology of varicella in one state prison in California during 2010 and 2011, control measures implemented, and associated costs. Eleven varicella cases were reported, of which nine were associated with two outbreaks. O
Publikováno v:
Medicine. 74:176-190
The importance of group B streptococcus (GBS) as a cause of serious infectious disease among adults is not widely appreciated. In adults, the modes of acquisition and transmission are unknown. Since most hospital-based studies of GBS bacteremia in ad
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J. L. Schneider, B. Yee, Dawn M. Norton, Patricia L. White, Duc J. Vugia, J. Lidgard, Janet Mohle-Boetani, L. H. Gould, J. Weiss
Publikováno v:
Journal of food protection. 74(8)
In late October 2007, an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport infections affected 42 case patients in California, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada. A case-control study implicated ground beef from one chain store. Despite detailed ground beef