David L. Swerdlow

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Global burden of Shigella infections: implications for vaccine development and implementation of control strategies.

Karen L. Kotloff, Jonathan P. Winickoff, +5 authors Myron M. Levine
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
1999

Few studies provide data on the global morbidity and mortality caused by infection with Shigella spp.; such estimates are needed, however, to plan strategies of prevention and treatment. Here we… (More)

Botulinum toxin as a biological weapon: medical and public health management.

Stephen S. Arnon, Robert Schechter, +15 authors Kevin Tonat
JAMA
2001

OBJECTIVE The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense has developed consensus-based recommendations for measures to be taken by medical and public health professionals if botulinum toxin is used as a… (More)

Campylobacter jejuni--an emerging foodborne pathogen.

Sean F. Altekruse, Norman J. Stern, Patricia I. Fields, David L. Swerdlow
Emerging infectious diseases
1999

Campylobacter jejuni is the most commonly reported bacterial cause of foodborne infection in the United States. Adding to the human and economic costs are chronic sequelae associated with C. jejuni… (More)

Epidemiology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, United States, 1982–2002

Josefa M. Rangel, Phyllis H. Sparling, Collen Crowe, Patricia M. Griffin, David L. Swerdlow
Emerging infectious diseases
2005

Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses in the United States annually. We reviewed E. coli O157 outbreaks reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand… (More)

Rocky Mountain spotted fever from an unexpected tick vector in Arizona.

Linda J. Demma, Marc S. Traeger, +10 authors Jennifer H. McQuiston
The New England journal of medicine
2005

BACKGROUND Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a life-threatening, tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. This disease is rarely reported in Arizona, and the principal vectors, Dermacentor… (More)

Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel. Israel Vibrio Study Group.

Naiel Bisharat, Vered Agmon, +9 authors Jim J Farmer
Lancet
1999

BACKGROUND Vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative bacterium that causes septicaemia and wound infection. Cases occur sporadically, and no previous outbreaks due to a common source or a clonal strain… (More)

Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

Thomas George Boyce, David L. Swerdlow, Patricia M. Griffin
The New England journal of medicine
1995

Botulism in the United States: a clinical and epidemiologic review.

Ron L Shapiro, Charles L Hatheway, David L. Swerdlow
Annals of internal medicine
1998

Botulism is a neuroparalytic illness caused by a neurotoxin produced from the anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium Clostridium botulinum [1]. Botulism was recognized as sausage poisoning during the… (More)

National surveillance and the epidemiology of human Q fever in the United States, 1978-2004.

Jennifer H. McQuiston, Robert C. Holman, Candace L. McCall, James Emory Childs, David L. Swerdlow, Herbert A. Thompson
The American journal of tropical medicine and…
2006

Although Q fever is considered enzootic in the United States, surveillance for human Q fever has been historically limited. From 1978 through 1999, 436 cases (average = 20 per year) of human Q fever… (More)

Epidemiology of seafood-associated infections in the United States.

Martha Iwamoto, Tracy L Ayers, Barbara E. Mahon, David L. Swerdlow
Clinical microbiology reviews
2010

Seafood is part of a healthful diet, but seafood consumption is not risk-free. Seafood is responsible for an important proportion of food-borne illnesses and outbreaks in the United States.… (More)

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