UW-Madison Infectious Disease Interest Group (IDIG)
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| Past IDIG Meetings | ||
| March 25, 2011 | Tuberculosis |
Adel Talaat, Associate Professor of Pathobiological Sciences, SVM Lorna Will, TB Program Director, DPH Nate Manley, M1, SMPH |
| November 19, 2010 | Active Surveillance of MRSA in Healthcare Settings Why we disagree with the analysis of Wenzel et al. Farr BM, Jarvis WR. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 May;30(5):497-9; author reply 299-500. |
Dr. Christopher Crnich |
| October 15, 2010 | Vaccine Refusals Vaccine refusal, mandatory immunization, and the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Omer SB, Salmon DA, Orenstein WA, deHart MP, Halsey N. N Engl J Med. 2009 May 7;360(19):1981-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19420367 Parental vaccine refusal in Wisconsin: a case control study. Salmon DA, Sotir MJ, Pan WK, Berg JL, Omer SB, Stokley S, Hopfensperger DJ, Davis JP, Halsey NA. WMJ. 2009 Feb;108(1):17-23. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19326630 |
Dr. James Conway Dept. of Pediatrics |
| April 16, 2010 | Raw Milk Consumption in Wisconsin | Rachel Klos, DVM, MPH Jim Kazmierczak, DVM, MS Rick Heffernan, MPH |
| March 19, 2010 | Evolutionary Insights into Emerging Diseases: How to Distinguish the Few Grave Threats from the Many Fizzlers? | Paul Ewald, PhD |
| February 26, 2010 | Salmonella Outreaks from contaminated peanut butter and the work of the Food Research Institute (FRI) | Chuck Czuprynski, PhD |
| January 22, 2010 | Discussion of: Copy-years viremia as a measure of cumulative human immunodeficiency virus viral burden Cole SR, Napravnik S, Mugavero MJ, Lau B, Eron JJ Jr, Saag MS. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 Jan 15;171(2):198-205. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20007202 |
Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS |
| December 11, 2009 | Discussion of: Microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for the diagnosis of TB Moore DA, Evans CA, Gilman RH, Caviedes L, Coronel J, Vivar A, Sanchez E, Pinedo Y, Saravia JC, Salazar C, Oberhelman R, Hollm-Delgado MG, LaChira D, Escombe AR, Friedland JS. N Engl J Med. 2006 Oct 12;355(15):1539-50. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17035648 |
Adel M. Talaat, MVSc, PhD |
| November 19, 2009 | Discussion of: Detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in stool samples by real-time polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of C. difficile-associated diarrhea Peterson LF, Manson RU, Paule SM, Hacek DM, Robicsek A, Thomson RB Jr, Kaul KL. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Nov 1;45(9):1152-60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17035648 |
Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD Carol Spiegel, PhD |
| October 16, 2009 | 2009 H1N1 Influenza | |
| March 5, 2009 | Epidemiologic Evidence for Crohn's Disease being Caused by an Infectious Agent, specifically Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) | Michael Collins, DVM, PhD |
| February 5, 2009 | Discussion of: Outbreaks of Salmonellosis in Minnesota (1998 through 2006) Associated with Frozen, Microwaveable, Breaded, Stuffed Chicken Products Smith KD, Medus C, Meyer SD, Boxrud DJ, Leano F, Hedberg CW, Elfering K, Braymen C, Bender JB, Danila RN. J Food Prot. 2008 Oct;71(10):2153-60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18939771 |
Rick Heffernan, MPH Rachel Klos, DVM, MPH |
| December 16, 2008 | Discussion of: Taming Pathogens: An Elegant Idea, But Does It Work? Zimmer C. Science. 2003 May 30;300(5624):1362-4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775814 |
Dorte Dopfer, DVM, MS, PhD |
| November 11, 2008 | Discussion of: Disease emergence from global climate and land use change. Patz JA, Olson SH, Uejio CK, Gibbs HK. Med Clin North Am. 2008 Nov;92(6):1473-91, xii. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061763 |
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH |