During the 20th century, life expectancy at birth among U.S. residents increased by 62%, from 47.3 years in 1900 to 76.8 in 2000, and unprecedented improvements in population health status were observed at every stage of life. In 1999, MMWR published a series of reports highlighting 10 public health achievements that contributed to those improvements. This report assesses advances in public hea...

The monitoring of the mosquito population for the purpose of possible better mosquito control took place in Osijek from 1995-2004. For the period of ten years, the primary research method for monitoring the mosquitoes used was dry ice baited CDC-traps. This provided significant information on mosquito species, their dynamics and seasonal activity. In total, 207,136 mosquito specimens were colle...

This report is an analysis of results provided to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by participant laboratories in the Model Performance Evaluation Program (MPEP) after they tested the human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV-I/II) performance evaluation samples shipped to them in November 2000. Testing results for this analysis were provided by 189 (85.9%) of 220 labo...

There is currently an explosion of research activity on food safety, including Salmonella contamination of pork and pork products. Salmonellosis is considered to be one of the most common foodborne illnesses in humans, with worldwide distribution and increased incidence in the United States during the last years (CDC,2000). Reasons for this include; increased public awareness of microbiological...

Anna Beltrame,* Maurizio Ruscio,† Barbara Cruciatti,‡ Angela Londero,* Vito Di Piazza,§ Roberto Copetti,§ Valentino Moretti,† Paolo Rossi,¶ Gian Luigi Gigli,¶ Luigia Scudeller,* and Pierluigi Viale* *University of Udine, Udine, Italy; †Hospital of San Daniele, San Daniele, Italy; ‡Hospital of Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy; §San Antonio Abate Hospital, Tolmezzo, Italy; and ¶Hospital of Udine, Udin...

Methods Screening for obesity using CDC 2000 criteria was done in 2121 female adolescents aged 13-14 years old in Yogyakarta. BMI > 95 percentile was considered as obese. Among the obese subjects, 78 agreed to be enrolled for this study. HOMA-IR > 3.16 was used to determine the insulin resistance status. DNA was isolated from peripheral blood and UCP2 -866 G/A, UCP3 -55C/T, GHSR1a rs2922126, GH...

Introduction The NBS is an integrated disease surveillance system deployed in 22 public health jurisdictions to support receipt, investigation, analysis and reporting, and data exchange for state reportable conditions. The NBS is governed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state, local, and territorial users that make up the NBS Community. In the early 2000’s, electroni...

During the 20th century, life expectancy at birth among U.S. residents increased by 62%, from 47.3 years in 1900 to 76.8 in 2000, and unprecedented improvements in population health status were observed at every stage of life. In 1999, MMWR published a series of reports highlighting 10 public health achievements that contributed to those improvements. This report assesses advances in public hea...

Conventional dendritic cells (cDC) are professional antigen-presenting cells that induce immune activation or tolerance. Two functionally specialised populations, termed cDC1 and cDC2, have been described in humans, mice, ruminants and recently in pigs. Pigs are an important biomedical model species and a key source of animal protein; therefore further understanding of their immune system will ...

BACKGROUND Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is important in arthritis and the SF-36v2 is the current state-of-the-art. It is only emerging how well the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HRQOL measures HRQOL for people with arthritis. This study's purpose is to assess the psychometric properties of the 9-item CDC HRQOL (4-item Healthy Days Core Module and 5-item He...