From the *Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; †Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Epidemiology, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ‡Center for Public Health Practice, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; §Office of Infectious Diseases, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; ¶National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; ‖Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; **Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; and ††Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, PA.
Accepted for publication April 26, 2011.
Supported by NIH MIDAS program (1U01-GM070708) (to D.C. and D.B.) and Cooperative Agreement number 5UCI000435–02 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). D.C. holds a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Welcome Fund.
The authors have no other funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.
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