Center for Global Health Literature Review

Literature Review

Selected literature reviewed by John G. Bartlett, M.D. Professor, Division of Infectious Disease

Links within the literature reviews link to the original publication in PubMed, to which Johns Hopkins subscribes. To access these links, you must be using a computer on the Johns Hopkins network.

February 2007:

Hospital preparedness for pandemic influenza (Center of Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)

August 2006:

BSE, bovine-USA: Atypical strain (ProMED-AHEAD Digest, 2006)

CD4-guided structured ART interruption strategy in HIV-infected adults in west Africa (Lancet 2006)

Cumulative confirmed human cases of avian flu A/(H5N1) reported to WHO (WHO, 2006)

Mad cow disease on the wane worldwide (FAO Newsroom, 2006)

Noroviruses as a cause of diarrhea among students from the U.S. visiting Mexico (J Clin Microbiol 2006)

Postexposure Doxycycline for the prevention of tick-borne relapsing fever (N Engl J Med, 2006)

Single-dose azithromycin for the treatment of cholera in adults (N Engl J Med, 2006)

July 2006:

Advancement of global health: key messages from the Disease Control Priorities Project (Lancet 2006)

Avian influenza virus infections in humans (Chest 2006)

Effect of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis, antiretroviral therapy, and insecticide-treated bednets on the frequency of malaria in HIV-1-infected adults in Uganda: a prospective cohort study (Lancet 2006)

Genetic characterization of diverse HIV-1 strains in an immigrant population living in New York City (J Acquire Immune Defic Syndr 2006)

How prepared is Europe for pandemic influenza (Lancet 2006)

Prophylactic human papillomavirus vaccines (J Clin Invest 2006)

Safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated split-virion influenza A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (H5N1) vaccine (Lancet 2006)

Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic (Nature 2006)

Tracking the prevalence of transmitted antiretroviral drug-resistant HIV-1: A decade of experience (J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2006)

Worldwide distribution of HPV types of cytologically normal women in the IARC HPV prevalence surveys (Lancet 2005)

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