Featured in Los Angeles Times
"Study chronicles drug-resistant TB in the U.S." November 12, 2008
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in California, 1993–2006
Ritu Banerjee, Jennifer Allen, Janice Westenhouse, Peter Oh, William Elms, Ed Desmond, Annette Nitta, Sarah Royce, and Jennifer Flood
A separate study published in August in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that 18 of the country's 83 cases of XDR-TB were in California. Of the California patients, 83% were foreign-born. Nearly half of those were from Mexico, 20% from South Korea and 13% from the Philippines.

Featured in Scientific American
"Warning: If antibiotics won't work, don't take them" October 2, 2008
Changes in the Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Intensive Care Units in US Hospitals, 1992–2003
R. Monina Klevens, Jonathan R. Edwards, Fred C. Tenover, L. Clifford McDonald, Teresa Horan, Robert Gaynes and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System
Antibiotic-resistant strains of infections have become increasingly prevalent over the past few years, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Some 36 percent of patients in intensive-care units came down with MRSA in 1992, compared with 64 percent in 2003, according to a study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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"Vitamin D may help fight tuberculosis, study finds" January 28, 2008
Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Katherine B. Gibney, Lachlan MacGregor, Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Caroline Marshall, Peter R. Ebeling, and Beverley-Ann Biggs