Correlation between wastewater and COVID-19 case incidence rates in major California sewersheds across three variant periods by Angela Rabe, Sindhu Ravuri, Elisabeth Burnor, Joshua A. Steele, Rose S. Kantor, Samuel Choi, Stanislav Forman, Ryan Batjiaka, Seema Jain, Tomás M. León, Duc J. Vugia, Alexander T. Yu

“…However, the generalizability of these findings across sewersheds, laboratory methods, and time periods with changing variants and underlying population immunity has not been well described. The California Department of Public Health partnered with six wastewater treatment plants starting in January 2021 to monitor wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, with analyses performed at four laboratories. …”
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The First Year Experience of Newborn Screening for Pompe Disease in California by Hao Tang, Lisa Feuchtbaum, Stanley Sciortino, Jamie Matteson, Deepika Mathur, Tracey Bishop, Richard S. Olney

“…The California Department of Public Health started universal newborn screening for Pompe disease in August 2018 with a two-tier process including: 1) acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) enzyme activity assay followed by, 2) <i>GAA</i> gene sequencing analysis. …”
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Shadow of a Pandemic: Persistence of Prenatal SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Newborn Blood Spots by Stanley Sciortino, Steve Graham, Toki Fillman, Hari Kandasamy, Robin Cooley, Carl Hanson, Valorie Eckert, Hao Tang, Juan Yang, David Seftel, Cheng-ting Tsai, Peter Robinson

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Assessing the accuracy of California county level COVID-19 hospitalization forecasts to inform public policy decision making by Lauren A. White, Ryan McCorvie, David Crow, Seema Jain, Tomás M. León

“…Methods Using archived forecasts from the California Department of Public Health’s California COVID Assessment Tool ( https://calcat.covid19.ca.gov/cacovidmodels/ ), we compared how well different forecasting models predicted COVID-19 hospitalization census across California counties and regions during periods of Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variant predominance. …”
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Adrenoleukodystrophy Newborn Screening in California Since 2016: Programmatic Outcomes and Follow-Up by Jamie Matteson, Stanley Sciortino, Lisa Feuchtbaum, Tracey Bishop, Richard S. Olney, Hao Tang

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A systematic synthesis of direct costs to treat and manage tuberculosis disease applied to California, 2015 by Peter Oh, Lisa Pascopella, Pennan M. Barry, Jennifer M. Flood

“…Estimates were based on published figures in the US, and operational data of the California Department of Public Health. Result The average direct cost of treating and managing a TB case was $34,600 in 2015. …”
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Implementation of California COVIDNet – a multi-sector collaboration for statewide SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance by Debra A. Wadford, Nikki Baumrind, Elizabeth F. Baylis, John M. Bell, Ellen L. Bouchard, Megan Crumpler, Eric M. Foote, Sabrina Gilliam, Carol A. Glaser, Jill K. Hacker, Katya Ledin, Sharon L. Messenger, Christina Morales, Emily A. Smith, Joel R. Sevinsky, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Joseph DeRisi, Joseph DeRisi, Kathleen Jacobson, the COVIDNet Consortium, Summer Adams, Phacharee Arunleung, Matthew Bacinskas, Nikki Baumrind, Elizabeth F. Baylis, Cynthia Bernas, John M. Bell, Ricardo Berumen, Ellen L. Bouchard, Brandon Brown, Teal Bullick, Lyndsey Chaille, Alice Chen, Giorgio Cosentino, Yocelyn Cruz, Nick D’Angelo, Mojgan Deldari, Alex Espinosa, Ambar Espinoza, Eric M. Foote, Shiffen Getabecha, Sabrina Gilliam, Carol A. Glaser, Madeleine Glenn, Bianca Gonzaga, Ydelita Gonzales, Melanie Greengard, Hugo Guevara, Jill K. Hacker, Kim Hansard, April Hatada, Monica Haw, Thalia Huynh, Kathleen Jacobson, Chantha Kath, Paul B. Kimsey, Katya Ledin, Deidra Lemoine, Ruth Lopez, Sharon L. Messenger, Blanca Molinar, Christina Morales, Samantha Munoz, Robert Nakamura, Nichole Osugi, Tasha Padilla, Chao-Yang Pan, Mayuri V. Panditrao, Chris Preas, Will Probert, Alexa Quintana, Maria Uribe-Fuentes, Mayra Ramirez, Clarence Reyes, Estela Saguar, Maria Salas, Ioana Seritan, Brandon Stavig, Hilary Tamnanchit, Serena Ting, Debra A. Wadford, Cindy Wong, Chelsea Wright, Shigeo Yagi, Venice Servellita, Alicia Sotomayor-Gonzalez, Charles Y. Chiu, Isabel Bjork, Joshua Kapp, Anouk van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Mawadda Alnaeeli, Hau-Ling Poon, Scott Topper, Marzieh Shafii, Sara Sowko, Stephanie Trammell, Erik Wolfsohn, Patrick Ayscue, Amy Kistler, Emily Crawford, Joseph DeRisi, Cristina Tato, Valeria Arboledaz, Eleazar Eskin, Laila M. Sathe, Jacek Skarbinski, Abigail Duque, Jeffrey Schapiro, Ivy Yeung, Rama Ghatti, Zahra Shajani-Yi, Jacob M. Garrigues, Nicole Green, Peera Hemarajata, Carlos Anaya, Donna Ferguson, Beatrix Kapuszinsky, Favian Ramirez, Felipe Sta Agueda, Megan Crumpler, Julia Wolfe, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, David Haussler, Marc Perry, Jakob McBroome, Nhi Duong, Deborah Forester, Anthony Gonzalez, Maria J. Victorio, Anna Liza M. Manlutac, Jeremy Corrigan, Nicholas S. Rhoades, Lina Castro, Godfred Masinde, Harmeet Kaur, Monica Paniagua-Alexander, Katrina G. Erwin, Glen Miller, Frances N. Sidhu, Morris Jones, Sangita Kothari, Christopher Ngo, Brandon Bonin, Daniel Castillo, Rensen Khoshabian, Kristian Andersen, Mark Zeller, Lisa Critchett, Carlos Gonzalez, Iryna V. Goraichuk, Rachel Rees, Frank Ambrosio, Curtis J. Kapsak, Kevin G. Libuit, Michelle R. Scribner, Joel R. Sevinsky, Emily A. Smith, Sage M. Wright, Vanessa B. Cadiz, Denise Lopez, Matthew Rosman, Bryan Bach, Stacia Wyman, Charlotte Acharya, Ryan Davis, Richard Michelmore, Melanie Oakes, Suzanne Sandmeyer, Kathy Borkovich, Clay H. Clark, Holly Clark, Brandon Le, Peter De Hoff, Kristen Jepsen, Rob Knight, Louise C. Laurent, Zack Aralis, Carolina Arias, Varuzhan Balasanyan, Mark Duhon, Xinmin Li, Eric Chow, Nicole Leung, Delsy Martinez, Tyler T. Miyasaki, Ashlee Clow, Jared Hoffman, Thomas Rush

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Geospatial Social Determinants of Health Correlate with Disparities in Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Cases in California by Kelly A. Johnson, Robert E. Snyder, Eric C. Tang, Natalie S. de Guzman, Rosalyn E. Plotzker, Ryan Murphy, Kathleen Jacobson

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Health Impacts of Future Prescribed Fire Smoke: Considerations From an Exposure Scenario in California by Andrew Rosenberg, Sumi Hoshiko, Joseph R. Buckman, Kirstin R. Yeomans, Thomas Hayashi, Samantha J. Kramer, ShihMing Huang, Nancy H. F. French, Ana G. Rappold

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Cross-Sectional Survey of Adulterated Sexual Enhancement Products Sold in the Sacramento Area of California by Fischer T, Tucker J, Li C, Min K, Xu D, Upjohn LR, Kumar M

“…Tessa Fischer,1,2 Jenna Tucker,1,2 Charlie Li,3 Kyungmi Min,3 Dadong Xu,3 Laurence R Upjohn,1 Madhur Kumar1 1Food and Drug Branch, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA, USA; 2California Epidemiologic Investigation Service (Cal EIS) Fellowship Program, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA, USA; 3Food and Drug Laboratory Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USACorrespondence: Madhur Kumar, Food and Drug Branch, California Department of Public Health, 1500 Capitol Avenue, MS 7602, Sacramento, CA, 95814, USA, Email madhur.kumar@cdph.ca.govPurpose: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against tainted products for sexual enhancement containing prescription phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors marketed as dietary supplements. …”
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Bedaquiline for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and QTc prolongation in California by Shereen Katrak, Phil Lowenthal, Richard Shen, Lisa True, Leslie Henry, Pennan Barry

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Salmonella Subpopulations Identified from Human Specimens Express Heterogenous Phenotypes That Are Relevant to Clinical Diagnosis by Yismashoa Gebremichael, John Crandall, Rituparna Mukhopadhyay, Fengfeng Xu

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Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter by Sheiphali A. Gandhi, T.J. Welch, Kirk D. Jones, Kristin J. Cummings, Laura Styles, Paul D. Blanc, Robert J. Harrison

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Mohs micrographic surgery versus wide local excision for the treatment of atypical fibroxanthoma: A retrospective cohort analysis by Summer N. Meyer, BS, Yunyi Ren, MS, Sandra Taylor, PhD, Maija Kiuru, MD, PhD, Daniel B. Eisen, MD

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Disparities in risk perception and low harm reduction services awareness, access, and utilization among young people with newly reported hepatitis C infections in California, 2018 by Alison R. Ohringer, David P. Serota, Rachel L. McLean, Lauren J. Stockman, James P. Watt

“…Methods California Department of Public Health invited LHJs to participate in enhanced surveillance if they met criteria indicating heightened population risk for HCV infection among people ages 15–29. …”
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Recent Outbreaks of Shigellosis in California Caused by Two Distinct Populations of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Shigella sonnei</named-content> with either Increase... by Varvara K. Kozyreva, Guillaume Jospin, Alexander L. Greninger, James P. Watt, Jonathan A. Eisen, Vishnu Chaturvedi

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Risk factor targeting for vaccine prioritization during the COVID-19 pandemic by Lloyd A. C. Chapman, Poojan Shukla, Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Priya B. Shete, Tomás M. León, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, George W. Rutherford, Robert Schechter, Nathan C. Lo

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Erratum to: Illuminating uveitis: metagenomic deep sequencing identifies common and rare pathogens by Thuy Doan, Michael R. Wilson, Emily D. Crawford, Eric D. Chow, Lillian M. Khan, Kristeene A. Knopp, Brian D. O’Donovan, Dongxiang Xia, Jill K. Hacker, Jay M. Stewart, John A. Gonzales, Nisha R. Acharya, Joseph L. DeRisi

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Discovery of a novel sub-lineage of multi-drug resistant Shigella flexneri in Southern California by Edwin Kamau, Paul C. Adamson, John Crandall, Rituparna Mukhopadhyay, Shangxin Yang

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Morphology, spatial distribution, and concentration of flame retardants in consumer products and environmental dusts using scanning electron microscopy and Raman micro-spectroscopy by Jeff Wagner, Sutapa Ghosal, Todd Whitehead, Catherine Metayer

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