| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Fresh Produce: A Growing Cause of Outbreaks of Foodborne Illness in the United States, 1973 through 1997 | Journal of Food Protection | 2004 | 875 |
| 2 | Excess hospital admissions during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1999 | 504 |
| 3 | Antimicrobial residues in animal waste and water resources proximal to large-scale swine and poultry feeding operations | Science of the Total Environment | 2002 | 444 |
| 4 | The Changing Epidemiology ofSalmonella:Trends in Serotypes Isolated from Humans in the United States, 1987–1997 | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2001 | 265 |
| 5 | An International Outbreak of Salmonellosis Associated with Raw Almonds Contaminated with a Rare Phage Type of Salmonella Enteritidis | Journal of Food Protection | 2005 | 259 |
| 6 | Bacterial Contamination of Animal Feed and Its Relationship to Human Foodborne Illness | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 236 |
| 7 | Emergence of Multidrug‐ResistantSalmonella entericaSerotype Newport Infections Resistant to Expanded‐Spectrum Cephalosporins in the United States | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2003 | 232 |
| 8 | Pediatric Hospitalizations for Croup (Laryngotracheobronchitis): Biennial Increases Associated with Human Parainfluenza Virus 1 Epidemics | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1997 | 188 |
| 9 | A Massive Epidemic of Multidrug‐Resistant Typhoid Fever in Tajikistan Associated with Consumption of Municipal Water | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 186 |
| 10 | Nationwide outbreak of listeriosis due to contaminated meat | Epidemiology and Infection | 2006 | 184 |
| 11 | Prevalence of Antibody to Hepatitis E Virus among Rodents in the United States | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2000 | 182 |
| 12 | Detection and Characterization of Novel Rotavirus Strains in the United States | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1998 | 176 |
| 13 | Trends in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Early-Onset Sepsis: Population-Based Surveillance in San Francisco and Atlanta | Pediatrics | 2002 | 163 |
| 14 | Is Maternal Obesity a Risk Factor for Anencephaly and Spina Bifida? | Epidemiology | 1996 | 130 |
| 15 | Chronic liver disease mortality in the United States, 1990-1998 | Hepatology | 2004 | 126 |
| 16 | A community-wide outbreak of hepatitis a: Risk factors for infection among homosexual and bisexual men | American Journal of Medicine | 1995 | 88 |
| 17 | Evaluation of selected characteristics of pregnancy drug registries | American Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 84 |
| 18 | Outbreak of Pseudomonas cepacia Bacteremia in Oncology Patients | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1993 | 82 |
| 19 | Epidemiologic applications of novel molecular methods to detect and differentiate small round structured viruses (Norwalk-like viruses) | Journal of Medical Virology | 1995 | 76 |
| 20 | Blood lead levels of primary school children in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2001 | 73 |
| 21 | Quality of controlled clinical trials. The case of imaging ultrasound in obstetrics: a review | BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 1985 | 70 |
| 22 | Insecticide-treated bednet use, anaemia, and malaria parasitaemia in Blantyre District, Malawi | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2002 | 65 |
| 23 | An Outbreak of Hospital-Acquired Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among Patients Receiving Chronic Hemodialysis | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 1999 | 62 |
| 24 | An Outbreak of Syphilis in Alabama Prisons: Correctional Health Policy and Communicable Disease Control | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 62 |
| 25 | The effect of known risk factors on the excess mortality of black adults in the United States | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1990 | 62 |
| 26 | Failure of a Chloroquine Chemoprophylaxis Program to Adequately Prevent Malaria during Pregnancy in Koupéla District, Burkina Faso | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2003 | 57 |
| 27 | An outbreak of cyclosporiasis in Florida in 1995: a harbinger of multistate outbreaks in 1996 and 1997. | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1998 | 57 |
| 28 | ToxigenicVibrio choleraeSerogroup O141–Associated Cholera‐Like Diarrhea and Bloodstream Infection in the United States | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2003 | 56 |
| 29 | Early Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis in the Newborn Period and Risk of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Acquisition in the First 10 Years of Life: A Registry-Based Longitudinal Study | Pediatrics | 2001 | 54 |
| 30 | Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children | Epidemiology and Infection | 2003 | 52 |
| 31 | First Reported Outbreak of Abdominal Angiostrongyliasis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1998 | 49 |
| 32 | Mental health status of human rights workers, Kosovo, June 2000 | Journal of Traumatic Stress | 2002 | 47 |
| 33 | Barriers to successful dietary control among pregnant women with phenylketonuria | Genetics in Medicine | 2002 | 46 |
| 34 | Genetic diversity of HIV-1 in western Kenya | Aids | 2003 | 46 |
| 35 | Clinicians' Management of Children and Adolescents With Acute Pharyngitis | Pediatrics | 2006 | 43 |
| 36 | Prevalence of Surgical-Site Infections and Patterns of Antimicrobial Use in a Large Tertiary-Care Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2002 | 42 |
| 37 | Nasal Carriage of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusin an American Indian Population | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2004 | 40 |
| 38 | Trends in Diarrhea-associated Hospitalizations Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children, 1980–1995 | Pediatrics | 1999 | 35 |
| 39 | A case-control study of the effectiveness of BCG vaccine for preventing leprosy in Yangon, Myanmar | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1997 | 26 |
| 40 | Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis in a Chronic Care Facility: Risk Factors and Measures for Control | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1993 | 24 |
| 41 | Impact of influenza on young children and the shaping of United States influenza vaccine policy | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | 2003 | 23 |
| 42 | Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections Among Neonates in a High-Risk Nursery in Cali, Colombia | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2004 | 23 |
| 43 | A Recurrent Outbreak of Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease Detected by Urinary Antigen Testing Evidence for Long-Term Colonization of a Hospital Plumbing System | Infection Control | 1998 | 20 |
| 44 | Photokeratitis and UV-Radiation Burns Associated With Damaged Metal Halide Lamps | JAMA Pediatrics | 2004 | 20 |
| 45 | Assessment of urinary metals following exposure to a large vegetative fire, New Mexico, 2000 | Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology | 2004 | 20 |
| 46 | Mysterious Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Burritos Supplied through School Lunch Programs | Journal of Food Protection | 2006 | 19 |
| 47 | Immunologic Response to Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) Conjugate Vaccine and Risk Factors for Carriage among Hib Carriers and Noncarriers in Southwestern Alaska | Vaccine Journal | 2006 | 19 |
| 48 | Restaurant-associated outbreak of Salmonella Typhi in Nauru: an epidemiological and cost analysis | Epidemiology and Infection | 2001 | 18 |
| 49 | A Bayesian Approach to the Detection of Aberrations in Public Health Surveillance Data | Epidemiology | 1993 | 17 |
| 50 | A multistate cluster of red blood cell transfusion reactions associated with use of a leucocyte reduction filter | Transfusion Medicine | 2006 | 17 |
