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M L Ackers

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Kubota K, Barrett T, Ackers M, Brachman P, Mintz E
J Clin Microbiol . 2005 Mar; 43(3):1205-9. PMID: 15750084
Typhoid fever is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing an estimated 16 million cases and 600,000 deaths annually. Although overall rates of the disease have dramatically decreased...
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Shapiro R, Kumar L, Phillips-Howard P, Wells J, Adcock P, Brooks J, et al.
J Infect Dis . 2001 May; 183(11):1701-4. PMID: 11343224
Bacterial diarrheal diseases cause substantial morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, but data on the epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of enteric bacterial pathogens are limited. Between May 1997 and...
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Gunn R, Murray P, Ackers M, Hardison W, Margolis H
Sex Transm Dis . 2001 Apr; 28(3):166-70. PMID: 11289199
Background And Objectives: Clients attending sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics are at risk for multiple infections (e.g., STDs, HIV, and infectious viral hepatitis). Risk assessment and serosurveys can document the...
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Ackers M, SCHOENFELD S, Markman J, Smith M, Nicholson M, DeWitt W, et al.
J Infect Dis . 2000 May; 181(5):1834-7. PMID: 10823796
In October 1995, an outbreak of Yersinia enterocolitica O:8 infections occurred in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Ten patients were identified, median age 9 years (range, 6...
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Ackers M, Puhr N, Tauxe R, Mintz E
JAMA . 2000 May; 283(20):2668-73. PMID: 10819949
Context: Multidrug-resistant Salmonella serotype Typhi infections have been reported worldwide, but data on the incidence of resistant strains in the United States are lacking. Objectives: To determine the incidence of...
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Shapiro R, Ackers M, Lance S, Rabbani M, Schaefer L, DAUGHERTY J, et al.
J Food Prot . 1999 Feb; 62(2):118-22. PMID: 10030628
In October 1996, we investigated an outbreak of Salmonella serotype Thompson infections associated with Restaurant A in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and conducted two cohort studies among persons who ate...
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Ackers M, Mahon B, Leahy E, Goode B, Damrow T, Hayes P, et al.
J Infect Dis . 1998 Jun; 177(6):1588-93. PMID: 9607837
In July 1995, 40 Montana residents were identified with laboratory-confirmed Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection; 52 residents had bloody diarrhea without laboratory confirmation. The median age of those with laboratory-confirmed cases...
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Ackers M, Quick R, Drasbek C, Hutwagner L, Tauxe R
Int J Epidemiol . 1998 May; 27(2):330-4. PMID: 9602419
Background: From 1991 through 1995, all Latin American countries maintained cholera surveillance systems to track the epidemic that entered the region through Peru in January 1991. These data were used...
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Herwaldt B, Ackers M
N Engl J Med . 1997 May; 336(22):1548-56. PMID: 9164810
Background: Cyclospora cayetanensis is a parasite that causes gastroenteritis. Until last year most of the documented cases of cyclosporiasis in North America were in overseas travelers. In 1996, a large...