Published in Int J Health Geogr on October 13, 2004
On the use of ZIP codes and ZIP code tabulation areas (ZCTAs) for the spatial analysis of epidemiological data. Int J Health Geogr (2006) 2.39
Tracking the polio virus down the Congo River: a case study on the use of Google Earth in public health planning and mapping. Int J Health Geogr (2009) 2.37
Tuberculosis incidence in Portugal: spatiotemporal clustering. Int J Health Geogr (2007) 1.23
Spatial and temporal distribution of tuberculosis in the State of Mexico, Mexico. ScientificWorldJournal (2012) 0.99
Geomatics in injury prevention: the science, the potential and the limitations. Inj Prev (2007) 0.99
Socioeconomic inequality of cancer mortality in the United States: a spatial data mining approach. Int J Health Geogr (2006) 0.97
The contribution of spatial analysis to understanding HIV/TB mortality in children: a structural equation modelling approach. Glob Health Action (2013) 0.94
Detection of Tuberculosis Infection Hotspots Using Activity Spaces Based Spatial Approach in an Urban Tokyo, from 2003 to 2011. PLoS One (2015) 0.88
The clustering of smear-positive tuberculosis in Dabat, Ethiopia: a population based cross sectional study. PLoS One (2013) 0.87
Development of spatial density maps based on geoprocessing web services: application to tuberculosis incidence in Barcelona, Spain. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 0.83
Modern contact investigation methods for enhancing tuberculosis control in aboriginal communities. Int J Circumpolar Health (2012) 0.83
Geo-epidemiologic and molecular characterization to identify social, cultural, and economic factors where targeted tuberculosis control activities can reduce incidence in Maryland, 2004-2010. Public Health Rep (2013) 0.83
Protocol for a population-based molecular epidemiology study of tuberculosis transmission in a high HIV-burden setting: the Botswana Kopanyo study. BMJ Open (2016) 0.82
Rapid spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria by use of a microarray system with automatic data processing and assignment. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 0.82
Eliminating tuberculosis one neighborhood at a time. Am J Public Health (2012) 0.81
Foreign-Born Status and Geographic Patterns of Tuberculosis Genotypes in Tarrant County, Texas. Prof Geogr (2008) 0.80
Correlation Assessment of Climate and Geographic Distribution of Tuberculosis Using Geographical Information System (GIS). Iran J Public Health (2016) 0.79
Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Infect Dis (2014) 0.78
Health geographic information system and HIV/AIDS. Indian J Sex Transm Dis (2011) 0.75
Eliminating tuberculosis one neighborhood at a time. Am J Public Health (2014) 0.75
Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Tuberculosis in the Regions Supervised by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2006-2012. Iran J Public Health (2015) 0.75
Use of Activity Space in a Tuberculosis Outbreak: Bringing Homeless Persons Into Spatial Analyses. Open Forum Infect Dis (2017) 0.75
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Comparison of methods based on different molecular epidemiological markers for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: interlaboratory study of discriminatory power and reproducibility. J Clin Microbiol (1999) 11.63
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Patterns of tuberculosis transmission in Central Los Angeles. JAMA (1997) 3.21
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Molecular and geographic patterns of tuberculosis transmission after 15 years of directly observed therapy. JAMA (1998) 3.07
Interpreting DNA fingerprint clusters of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. European Concerted Action on Molecular Epidemiology and Control of Tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (1999) 2.66
Transmission of tuberculosis in a high incidence urban community in South Africa. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 2.62
Zip code-level risk factors for tuberculosis: neighborhood environment and residential segregation in New Jersey, 1985-1992. Am J Public Health (2001) 2.56
Long-term risk of tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States. JAMA (1997) 2.54
Differences in contributing factors to tuberculosis incidence in U.S. -born and foreign-born persons. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (1998) 2.52
Networks and tuberculosis: an undetected community outbreak involving public places. Soc Sci Med (2001) 2.48
Transmission of tuberculosis among the urban homeless. JAMA (1996) 2.45
Risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a low-incidence country due to immigration from high-incidence areas. J Clin Microbiol (2001) 2.24
Complex transmission dynamics of clonally related virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with barhopping by predominantly human immunodeficiency virus-positive gay men. J Infect Dis (1999) 2.06
Spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a community implementing recommended elements of tuberculosis control. JAMA (2000) 1.88
Sampling bias in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 1.86
Tuberculosis elimination revisited: obstacles, opportunities, and a renewed commitment. Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET). MMWR Recomm Rep (1999) 1.85
A clinic-based molecular epidemiologic study of tuberculosis in Monterrey, Mexico. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2001) 1.79
National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network: design and methods. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 1.78
Neighborhood poverty and the resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City, 1984-1992. Am J Public Health (2001) 1.78
The application of geographical information systems to important public health problems in Africa. Int J Health Geogr (2002) 1.70
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis morbidity among U.S.-born and foreign-born populations--United States, 2000. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep (2002) 1.41
A cluster of tuberculosis among crack house contacts in San Mateo County, California. Am J Public Health (1994) 1.35
Rationale and methods for the National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 1.30
Spatial patterns of tuberculosis incidence in Cologne (Germany). Soc Sci Med (2002) 1.12
Prospective use of molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by use of restriction fragment-length polymorphism in a public tuberculosis-control program. Clin Infect Dis (2002) 0.96
DNA fingerprinting and contact investigation. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2000) 0.85
Three months of rifapentine and isoniazid for latent tuberculosis infection. N Engl J Med (2011) 6.14
Osteopathic manual treatment and ultrasound therapy for chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Fam Med (2013) 2.79
Human tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in the United States, 1995-2005. Clin Infect Dis (2008) 2.45
Prospective comparison of the tuberculin skin test and 2 whole-blood interferon-gamma release assays in persons with suspected tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis (2007) 2.33
Tuberculosis and substance abuse in the United States, 1997-2006. Arch Intern Med (2009) 2.16
Decline in tuberculosis among Mexico-born persons in the United States, 2000-2010. Ann Am Thorac Soc (2014) 1.99
Pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis. Chest (2007) 1.97
Sequence-based identification of aerobic actinomycetes. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.70
Estimating the burden of tuberculosis among foreign-born persons acquired prior to entering the U.S., 2005-2009. PLoS One (2011) 1.68
Clinical outcomes among persons with pulmonary tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with phenotypic heterogeneity in results of drug-susceptibility tests. J Infect Dis (2014) 1.65
What is the outcome of targeted tuberculosis screening based on universal genotyping and location? Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 1.64
Underuse of effective measures to prevent and manage pediatric tuberculosis in the United States. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2008) 1.62
Characterization of a novel group of mycobacteria and proposal of Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.61
Clinical and laboratory features of Mycobacterium mageritense. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.58
Enzyme-linked immunospot and tuberculin skin testing to detect latent tuberculosis infection. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2005) 1.58
Tuberculosis genotyping information management system: enhancing tuberculosis surveillance in the United States. Infect Genet Evol (2011) 1.49
Using the St. George respiratory questionnaire to ascertain health quality in persons with treated pulmonary tuberculosis. Chest (2007) 1.45
Resveratrol induces growth arrest and apoptosis through activation of FOXO transcription factors in prostate cancer cells. PLoS One (2010) 1.41
Relationship between Mycobacterium tuberculosis phylogenetic lineage and clinical site of tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.41
Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Texas and Mexico. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.40
Geographic differences in time to culture conversion in liquid media: Tuberculosis Trials Consortium study 28. Culture conversion is delayed in Africa. PLoS One (2011) 1.38
Racial differences in diabetes self-management and quality of care in Texas. J Diabetes Complications (2008) 1.35
What is patient safety culture? A review of the literature. J Nurs Scholarsh (2010) 1.35
Mycobacterium arupense sp. nov., a non-chromogenic bacterium isolated from clinical specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2006) 1.34
Characterization of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis peptide that is recognized by human CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the context of multiple HLA alleles. J Immunol (2004) 1.34
Forty years of disinfectant failure: outbreak of postinjection Mycobacterium abscessus infection caused by contamination of benzalkonium chloride. Clin Infect Dis (2003) 1.28
Evolution of activation patterns during long-duration ventricular fibrillation in dogs. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2004) 1.27
The association between renal cell carcinoma and multiple myeloma: insights from population-based data. BJU Int (2010) 1.26
Text and structural data mining of influenza mentions in Web and social media. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2010) 1.26
NK cells regulate CD8+ T cell effector function in response to an intracellular pathogen. J Immunol (2004) 1.23
Detection of rpoB mutations associated with rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 1.22
Health information technology capacity at federally qualified health centers: a mechanism for improving quality of care. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.20
The evaluation of school-based violence prevention programs: a meta-analysis. J Sch Health (2008) 1.19
The NKp46 receptor contributes to NK cell lysis of mononuclear phagocytes infected with an intracellular bacterium. J Immunol (2002) 1.17
Latent tuberculosis infection among foreign-born persons: a prioritized approach. Ann Am Thorac Soc (2014) 1.15
GANT-61 inhibits pancreatic cancer stem cell growth in vitro and in NOD/SCID/IL2R gamma null mice xenograft. Cancer Lett (2012) 1.14
Assessing the continuum of event-based biosurveillance through an operational lens. Biosecur Bioterror (2012) 1.13
The prognostic value of microRNAs varies with patient race/ethnicity and stage of colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res (2013) 1.12
Personal and societal health quality lost to tuberculosis. PLoS One (2009) 1.12
Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using nine novel variable-number tandem repeats across the Beijing family and low-copy-number IS6110 isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.11
A phase I clinical trial of Ad5/3-Δ24, a novel serotype-chimeric, infectivity-enhanced, conditionally-replicative adenovirus (CRAd), in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol (2013) 1.10
Using Web and social media for influenza surveillance. Adv Exp Med Biol (2010) 1.09
Clinical and laboratory features of Mycobacterium porcinum. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.08
Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster with developing drug resistance, New York, New York, USA, 2003-2009. Emerg Infect Dis (2011) 1.07
Acquired resistance to second-line drugs among persons with tuberculosis in the United States. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.07
Does directly observed therapy (DOT) reduce drug resistant tuberculosis? BMC Public Health (2011) 1.05
Sexual risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS in Togo. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.05
Multiple cytokines are released when blood from patients with tuberculosis is stimulated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens. PLoS One (2011) 1.04
ESAT-6 inhibits production of IFN-gamma by Mycobacterium tuberculosis-responsive human T cells. J Immunol (2009) 1.04
Resveratrol enhances antitumor activity of TRAIL in prostate cancer xenografts through activation of FOXO transcription factor. PLoS One (2010) 1.04
Unusual interferon gamma measurements with QuantiFERON-TB Gold and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube tests. PLoS One (2011) 1.03
Characterization of health status and modifiable risk behavior among United States adults using chiropractic care as compared with general medical care. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2009) 1.03
Pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis and its contribution to TB burden. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.02
Association between obesity and asthma in US children and adolescents. J Asthma (2009) 1.01
Multiphasic approach reveals genetic diversity of environmental and patient isolates of Mycobacterium mucogenicum and Mycobacterium phocaicum associated with an outbreak of bacteremias at a Texas hospital. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 1.01
Prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries sustained by students while attending a chiropractic college. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2009) 1.01
Early clinical experience with networked system for promoting patient self-management. Am J Manag Care (2011) 0.99
Sulforaphane inhibits angiogenesis through activation of FOXO transcription factors. Oncol Rep (2009) 0.98
Two tuberculosis genotyping clusters, one preventable outbreak. Public Health Rep (2009) 0.97
Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (Zolinza/vorinostat) sensitizes TRAIL-resistant breast cancer cells orthotopically implanted in BALB/c nude mice. Mol Cancer Ther (2009) 0.97
Do acculturation and family cohesiveness influence severity of diabetes among Mexican Americans? Ethn Dis (2006) 0.97
High blood pressure in school children: prevalence and risk factors. BMC Pediatr (2006) 0.96
The balanced scorecard framework-a case study of patient and employee satisfaction: what happens when it does not work as planned? Health Care Manage Rev (2008) 0.95
Education level, primary language, and comprehension of the informed consent process. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics (2007) 0.95
CD40 ligand trimer enhances the response of CD8+ T cells to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Immunol (2003) 0.94
Detection by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of pncA mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the United States-Mexico border region. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 0.94
Physician characteristics and the reported effect of evidence-based practice guidelines. Health Serv Res (2008) 0.94
The health care provider's role and patient compliance to health promotion advice from the user's perspective: analysis of the 2006 National Health Interview Survey data. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2010) 0.93
The societal cost of tuberculosis: Tarrant County, Texas, 2002. Ann Epidemiol (2010) 0.93
Polyphasic characterization reveals that the human pathogen Mycobacterium peregrinum type II belongs to the bovine pathogen species Mycobacterium senegalense. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.91
The association of DNA Repair with breast cancer risk in women. A comparative observational study. BMC Cancer (2012) 0.91
Using cost and health impacts to prioritize the targeted testing of tuberculosis in the United States. Ann Epidemiol (2005) 0.91
Serum cytokine concentrations do not parallel Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced cytokine production in patients with tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis (2002) 0.91
Evidence for chronic lung impairment in patients treated for pulmonary tuberculosis. J Infect Public Health (2011) 0.91
Factors associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among US children: results from a national survey. BMC Pediatr (2012) 0.91
Laparoscopic diagnosis and repair of asymptomatic bilateral inguinal hernias. Am J Surg (2002) 0.91
Risky behaviors and factors associated with suicide attempt in adolescents. Arch Suicide Res (2005) 0.90
microRNA-29 negatively regulates EMT regulator N-myc interactor in breast cancer. Mol Cancer (2014) 0.90
Reduced expression of nuclear cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate response element-binding proteins and IFN-gamma promoter function in disease due to an intracellular pathogen. J Immunol (2002) 0.90
Treatment of active tuberculosis: challenges and prospects. Clin Chest Med (2005) 0.89
Exposure levels of asthmatic children to allergens, endotoxins, and serine proteases in a tropical environment. J Asthma (2004) 0.89
Gastric bypass surgery in the United States, 1998-2002. Am J Public Health (2006) 0.88
Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systemic review--response. Health Qual Life Outcomes (2010) 0.88
Factors associated with breast cancer in Puerto Rican women. J Epidemiol Glob Health (2013) 0.87
HIV/AIDS, gender, agency and empowerment issues in Africa. Soc Sci Med (2006) 0.87
Acute myeloid leukemia incidence following radiation therapy for localized or locally advanced prostate adenocarcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol (2010) 0.87
Human CD8+ T cells recognize epitopes of the 28-kDa hemolysin and the 38-kDa antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Leukoc Biol (2003) 0.87
Diallyl trisulfide increases the effectiveness of TRAIL and inhibits prostate cancer growth in an orthotopic model: molecular mechanisms. Mol Cancer Ther (2008) 0.86