Data & Publications

Alerts, Advisories, and Updates

• Health Alerts
• Vax Fax: Vaccine Updates 

Bulletins

• Community Health and Safety Bulletin, June/July 2004 [PDF]
• Community Health and Safety Bulletin, October 2002 [PDF]

Posters

• Avian Influenza Planning: Decision-Making Matrices for Epidemiology and Surveillance Activities, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• The Clinician and Health Department Partnership Project, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• Epidemiology and Disease Control Go-Kits, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• Pandemic Flu Planning & Preparedness Activities in San Francisco, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• San Francisco Community-Associated MRSA Pediatric Sentinel Surveillance 2005-2006 [PDF] - New!
• San Francisco's Isolation & Quarantine Planning, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• Strategies and Tools for Evaluating a Full-Scale Mass Prophylaxis Exercise: The San Francisco Experience, Feb 2007 [PDF]
• Completeness of Active and Passive Surveillance in San Francisco. [PDF]
• Campylobacteriosis Surveillance in San Francisco, 2006. [PDF]

Reports

• Annual Report of Communicable Diseases in San Francisco 2006, January 2008 [PDF] - New!
• Annual Report of Communicable Diseases in San Francisco 2004-2005, August 2006 [PDF]
• San Francisco Communicable Disease Report 1986-2003, May 2005 [HTML]
• Biohazard Detection System (BDS) Alert Response Exercise Summary, Jan 2006 [PDF] 
• Building A Healthier San Francisco: 2004 Community Health Assessment [PDF]
• Quantitative Risk Assessment for Needle Reuse At a Phlebotomy Center, May 2000 [PDF]
• Summary Report: Survey of Hepatitis C Virus counseling and testing services at HIV counseling and testing sites, and health service sites, 1999 [PDF]

Articles

   Foodborn/Gastrointestinal Illnesses:

• Complaints of foodborne illness in San Francisco, California, 1998.
  Samuel MC, Portnoy D, Tauxe RV, Angulo FJ, Vugia DJ.  J Food Prot. 2001;64(8):1261-4.

• Endemic cryptosporidiosis and exposure to municipal tap water in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): a case-control study.
  Aragón TJ, Novotny S, Enanoria W, Vugia DJ, Khalakdina A, Katz MH. BMC Public Health. 2003;3(1):2 [HTML] | [PDF]

• Risk of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome after antibiotic treatment of escherichia coli O157:H7 infections.
  Aragon T, Fernyak S, Reiter R.  N Engl J Med. 2000 Oct 26;343(17):1271-2; author reply 1272-3.

• Shigella sonnei outbreak among men who have sex with men --- San Francisco, California, 2000--2001.
  CDC, Reported by: JD Klausner, MD, T Aragón, MD, WT Enanoria, MPH, JK Mann, MPH, VM Zapitz, MS, D Portnoy, MPH, SA Shallow, MPH, K Israel-Ballard, MS Kim, MPH, J O'Connell, DJ Vugia, MD. MMWR 2001;50(42):922-926.

   Wound and Soft Tissue Infections:

• Clostridial myonecrosis cluster among injection drug users: a molecular epidemiology investigation.
  Bangsberg DR, Rosen JI, Aragón T, Campbell A, Weir L, Perdreau-Remington F.  Arch Intern Med. 2002 Mar 11;162(5):517-22.

• Increasing prevalence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection in California jails.
  Pan E, Diep B, Carleton H, Charlebois E, Sensabaugh G, Haller B, & Perdreau-Remington F. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003;37:1384-1388.

• Population dynamics of nasal strains of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus--and their relation to community-associated disease activity.
  Pan ES, Diep BA, Charlebois ED, Auerswald C, Carleton HA, Sensabaugh GF, Perdreau-Remington F. J Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 1;192(5):811-8. Epub 2005 Aug 2.

   Bioterrorism:

• Anthrax in the Air?
  Chan C, Pan E, San Francisco Medicine June/July 2005 [PDF]

• Logistics of smallpox control through ring vaccination: a stochastic network model.
  Porco TC, Holbrook K, Fernyak SE, Portnoy D, Reiter R, Aragón TJ. BMC Public Health 2004, 4:34. [HTML] | [PDF]

• Risks of serious complications and death from smallpox vaccination: a systematic review of the United States experience, 1963-1968.
  Aragón TJ, Ulrich S, Fernyak S, Rutherford GW.  BMC Public Health. 2003 Aug 11;3(1):26. [HTML] | [PDF]

• The risks and benefits of pre-event smallpox vaccination: where you stand depends on where you sit.
  Aragón TJ, Fernyak SE. Ann Emerg Med. 2003 Nov;42(5):681 [PDF]

   HIV/AIDS:

• HIV infection as a risk factor for Shigellosis.
  Baer JT, Vugia DJ, Reingold AL, Aragón TJ, Angulo FJ, Bradford WZ. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999; 5(6):822-823

• Home sample collection for HIV testing.
  Phillips KA, Morin S, Coates T, Fernyak S, Marsh A, Ramos-Irizarry L. JAMA. 2000 Jan 12;283(2):198-9.

• Risk behaviors and HIV incidence among repeat testers at publicly funded HIV testing sites in San Francisco.
  Fernyak SE, Page-Shafer K, Kellogg TA, McFarland W, Katz MH.  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Sep 1;31(1):63-70.

• The cost-effectiveness of expanded HIV counselling and testing in primary care settings: a first look.
  Phillips KA, Fernyak S. AIDS. 2000 Sep 29;14(14):2159-69.

Miscellaneous:

• On the Frontline: San Francisco Physicians Serve as Primary Sources for Disease Detectives 
  Huang S, San Francisco Medicine March 2007 [PDF]
  

• Public Health Update: Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
  Bruch O, Holbrook K, San Francisco Medicine July 2006 [PDF]

• Outbreaks of of noscomial group A streptococcal infections associated with asymptomatic health care workers - Maryland and California, 1997.
  CDC, Reported by Aragón T, Katz M, Mintz L, Waterman S, Lacey T, Bradshaw D, Sanders M, Dwyer D.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1999;48(8):163-166

• Risk of infection from needle reuse at a phlebotomy center.
  Porco TC, Aragon TJ, Fernyak SE, Cody SH, Vugia DJ, Katz MH, Bangsberg DR. Am J Public Health. 2001;91(4):636-8.

• Use of preventive services by managed care enrollees: an updated perspective.
  Phillips KA, Fernyak S, Potosky AL, Schauffler HH, Egorin M. Health Aff (Millwood). 2000 Jan-Feb;19(1):102-16.

• Viral infections of the fetus and newborn.
  Pan E, Cole FS, & Weintrub P. In Taeusch HW, Ballard RA, Gleason CA. (eds.): Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 8th edition. Philadelphia, Harcourt Health Sciences, 2005.