Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz (18 May 1921-2 January 2009)

Memorandum January 18 , 2011

Salmonella and Campy/obaeter are two of the most common foodbome pathogens that produce illness in humans, causing an estimated> 1 million and >800,000 illnesses, respectively, due to food consumed in the United States. Most of these estimated illnesse s are not confirmed by culture. Exposure to poultry meat is an important risk factor for illness from both pathogens. Evidence for this link has...

January 1, 2009

We develop the absorbing Markov chain (AMC) for describing in detail the network of paths through an industrial system taken by an embodied resource from extraction through intermediate products and finally consumer products. We refer to this as a resource-specific network. This work builds on a recent literature in industrial ecology that uses an AMC to quantify the number of times a resource ...

Keith Dalziel: 24 August 1921 - 7 January 1994.

QUEST Workshop 2009 Bergen , Norway 18 th to 20 th of May 2009

Seroprevalence of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 in Ontario from January 2009–May 2010

BACKGROUND We designed a seroprevalence study using multiple testing assays and population sources to estimate the community seroprevalence of pH1N1/09 and risk factors for infection before the outbreak was recognized and throughout the pandemic to the end of 2009/10 influenza season. METHODS Residual serum specimens from five time points (between 01/2009 and 05/2010) and samples from two tim...