The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Outbreaks, Surveillance and Patterns
5164.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Outbreaks, Surveillance and Patterns
Learning Objectives: To learn epidemiologic applications of methods of investigating outbreaks, conducting surveillance and describing patterns.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Susan M Farner, PhD
Barbara Watson, MD
2:30 PMA preventable outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia among unvaccinated nursing home residents, New Jersey, 2001
Christina G. Tan, MD, Stanley Ostrawski, Eddy A. Bresnitz, MD, MS
2:45 PMUtility of the serum c-reactive protein (CRP) for detection of occult bacterial infection in children
Daniel J. Isaacman, MD, Bonnie L. Burke, MS
3:00 PMDevelopment and evaluation of an epidemiologic surveillance-screening test for Chagas’ Disease
Mercedes Pacheco, MS, Carolina A. Alvarez, MD, SCP, Marco Marruffo, MD, MS, Janet Marruffo, MD, Federico Montealegre, DVM, MS, PhD, Manuel Bayona, MD, PhD
3:15 PMTravel patterns among young Urban Nomad injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United States
Don C. Des Jarlais, Theresa Perlis, PhD, Cassandra Torrico, Joy Settembrino
3:30 PMBone mineral density and its relations in Korean adult women
Jong-An Park, PhD, Moo-Hyun You, PhD, Hyun-Cheol Ahn, MD, MPH, PhD, Kyu-Yoon Hwang, MD, MPH, DrPH
3:45 PMIssues in estimating the prevalence of intimate partner violence: The association between abuse status and participation in research conducted in the home
Eve M Waltermaurer, MCH, Christina Ortega, MPH, Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD
Organized by:Epidemiology
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA