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Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) Disease among Amish Children in Pennsylvania: Reasons for Persistent Disease
Alicia M. Fry, MD, MPH, Perrianne Lurie,MD, MPH, Maribeth Gidley, DO, MPH, Susanna Schmink,MS, Jairam Lingappa, MD, PhD, Marc Fischer, MD, MPH, and Nancy E. Rosenstein, MD. Pediatrics 2001;108(4).
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A Community Intervention Trial to Promote Judicious Antibiotic Use and Reduce Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in Children
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Risk Factors for Meningococcal Disease in US College Students
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Effect of Short-Course, High-Dose Amoxicillin Therapy on Resistant Pneumococcal Carriage.
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Group B Streptococcal Disease Prevention Practices of Obstetrician-Gynecologists. Watt, J.P.; Schuchat, A.; Erickson, K.; Honig, J.E.; Gibbs, R.; Schulkin, J. Journal of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology July 2001; 98:1.
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Epidemiology of Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae Infections in the United States, 1995-1998 Opportunities for Prevention in the Conjugate Vaccine Era Robinson, K.A., Baughman, W., Rothrock, G., Barrett, N.L., Pass, M., Lexau, C., Damaske, B., Stefonek, K., Barnes, B., Patterson, J., Zell, E.R., Schuchat, A., Whitney, C.G., JAMA 2001;285: 1729-1735.
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Increasing prevalence in the United States of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. Whitney, C.G., Farley, M.M., Hadler, J., Harrison, L.H., Lexau, C., Reingold, A., Lefkowitz, L., Cieslak, R.R., Cetron, M., Zell, E., Jorgensen, J.H., Schuchat, A. N Engl J Med 2000;343: 1917-1924.
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Major related sets of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in the United States as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and pbp1a-pbp2b-pbp2x-dhf restriction profiles
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emm and sof gene sequence variation in relation to serological typing of opacity-factor-positive group A streptococci
Microbiology 2000; 146:1195-1209
Beall B, Gherardi G, Lovgren M, Facklam RR, Forwick BA, and Tyrrell GJ.
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Coccidioidomycosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons in Arizona, 1994-1997: incidence, risk factors, and prevention
Woods, Christopher W; McRill, Cheryl; Plikaytis, Brian D; Rosenstein, Nancy E; Mosley, David; Boyd, Denise; England, Bob; Perkins, Bradley A; Ampel, Neil M; Hajjeh, Rana A .
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2000; 181:428-1434.
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Risk factors for acute symptomatic coccidioidomycosis among elderly persons in Arizona, 1996-1997
Leake, John A. D; Mosley, David G; England, Bob; Graham, Justin V; Plikaytis, Brian D; Ampel, Neil M; Perkins, Bradley A; Hajjeh, Rana A.
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2000; 81:1435-1440
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Enhanced extracellular prduction of aspartyl proteinase, a virulence factor by Candida albicans isolates following growth in subinhibitory concentrations of fluconazole.
Wu, Tao; Wright, Katherine; Hurst, Steven; Morrsion, Christine
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2000; 44:1200-1208
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Laboratory-based surveillance of Salmonella Typhi infections in the United States: antimicrobial resistance on the rise.
Ackers M, Puhr N, Tauxe R, Mintz ED.
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