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3210.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| This session will focus on various outbreak investigations. Presentations will include outbreaks of methiciillin-susceptible staphylococcus aurea and Salmonella in jail settings, hepatitis A among illegal drug users, and Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis in a daycare center. In addition, one presentation will focus on the important mumps outbreak in Iowa in early 2006. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Discuss the epidemiologic, infection control and environmental strategies for outbreak investigations in a correctional setting 2. Describe New Hampshire's response and interventions to control a hepatitis A outbreak among illegal drug users 3. Identify factors of amplification in food-borne outbreaks 4. Describe the substantial economic burdent associated with shigella outbreaks, including the total costs and the main components 5. Understand the mumps outbreak in Iowa | |||
| Elizabeth Bancroft, MD, SM | |||
What do you mean, it's not MRSA? Investigation of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin positive Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a jail ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Elquemedo Oscar Alleyne, MPH, Germaine Jacquette, MD, Robyn M. Atkinson, PhD | |||
| New Hampshire's response to an outbreak of hepatitis A among illegal-drug users Rachel Plotinsky, MD, Jane Manning, MPH, Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD, Cynthia Learson, RN, Jose Montero, MD | |||
| Managing Iowa's Mumps Epidemic: Epidemiologists' Experiences Meghan Harris, BS, MPH, Sarah Brend, MPH, Pamila Deichmann, RN, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA