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Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease:
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Meet Your Minnesota Team
Primary
EISO Supervisor:
Kirk Smith, DVM, MS, PhD (EIS 1996)
Deputy State Epidemiologist and Manager, Foodborne, Waterborne, Vectorborne, and Zoonotic Diseases Section
Secondary
EISO Supervisor:
Stacy Holzbauer, DVM, MPH (EIS 2006)
State Public Health Veterinarian
Secondary
EISO Supervisor:
Jennifer Zipprich, PhD, MPhil, MS (EIS 2008)
Emerging Infections Unit Supervisor
Mentors
Ruth Lynfield, MD
State Epidemiologist
Carlota Medus, PhD, MPH
Foodborne Diseases Unit Supervisor
Jessica Hancock-Allen, RN, MSN, MS, FNP-BC (EIS 2014)
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division Director
About working with Minnesota Infectious Disease
Minnesota is ranked one of the healthiest and most livable states in the nation. From numerous cultural opportunities and fantastic outdoor recreation to economic diversity and strong education systems, we have it all in Minnesota!
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Minnesota’s public health system is known as one of the best in the nation. It is built upon a strong partnership between the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), local public health agencies, tribal governments, universities, and a range of other organizations.
Through the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control (IDEPC) Division, we monitor the occurrence of infectious diseases, develop strategies for preventing and controlling disease, and work to put those strategies into action.
MDH's IDEPC Division is filled with a wide variety of investigative opportunities, in a dynamic work environment, with experienced mentors and an academic atmosphere with a strong publication history.
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Choosing Minnesota will give you access to lots of exciting projects and programs including: the Unexplained Death and Critical Illness Program, agricultural exposures associated with zoonoses, emerging infections like SARS-CoV-2 and fatal Staphylococcus infections, and so much more!
Publications & Abstracts
EIS Publications and Abstracts
- PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Neuroinvasive Francisella tularensis Infection: Report of 2 Cases and Review of the Literature
2024 Jan 31;78(Suppl 1):S55-S63 - CDC MMWR: Ocular Monkeypox — United States, July–September 2022
2022 Oct 21;71(42) - PubMed, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Pharyngeal Co-Infections with Monkeypox Virus and Group A Streptococcus, United States, 2022
2023 Sep;29(9):1855-1858 - CDC MMWR: Severe Monkeypox in Hospitalized Patients — United States, August 10–October 10, 2022
2022 Oct 26;71(44);1412–1417 - CDC MMWR: Orthopoxvirus Testing Challenges for Persons in Populations at Low Risk or Without Known Epidemiologic Link to Monkeypox — United States, 2022
2022 Sep 9;71(36);1155–1158 - PubMed, Journal of Infectious Diseases: Prolonged mpox disease in people with advanced HIV: characterization of mpox skin lesions
2024 Mar 26;229(Supplement_2):S243-S248 - CDC MMWR: Interim Clinical Treatment Considerations for Severe Manifestations of Mpox — United States, February 2023
2023 Mar 3;72(9);232–243 - PubMed, Journal of Infectious Diseases: Pathology and monkeypox virus localization in tissues from immunocompromised patients with severe or fatal mpox
2024 Mar 26;229(Supplement_2):S219-S228
- PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Household Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant— United States, 2021
2022 Aug 24;75(1):e122-e132 - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 Outbreak Associated With a Fitness Center-Minnesota, September-November 2020
2022 Apr 9;74(7):1265-1267 - PubMed, Infection Control & Hosp Epidemiology: Use of serial testing to interrupt a severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak on a hospital medical floor—Minnesota, October–December 2020
2023 Mar;44(3):427-432 - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Widespread Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Among Attendees at a Large Motorcycle Rally and their Contacts, 30 US Jurisdictions, August–September, 2020
2021 Jul 15;73(Suppl 1):S106-S109 - PubMed, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Patient Characteristics During Early Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Palau, January 13–February 24, 2022
2023 Sep;29(9):1939-1941 - PubMed, JAMA: Comparison of Home Antigen Testing With RT-PCR and Viral Culture During the Course of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
2022 Jul 1;182(7):701-709 - PubMed, PLOS Global Public Health: Travel history among persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the United States, December 2020—February 2021
2023 Mar 29;3(3):e0001252 - CDC MMWR: First Identified Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 in Minnesota — December 2020–January 2021
2021 Feb 26;70(8);278–279 - CDC MMWR: First Identified Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Variant P.1 in the United States — Minnesota, January 2021
2021 Mar 12;70(10);346–347 - CDC MMWR: COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a 10-Day Motorcycle Rally in a Neighboring State — Minnesota, August–September 2020
2020 Nov 27;69(47);1771-1776 - PubMed, Public Health Reports: Surveillance for Unexplained Deaths of Possible Infectious Etiologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Minnesota, 2020-2021
2024 Jan 11:333549231218283 - Frontiers in Neurology: Rapid onset of functional tic-like behaviors among adolescent girls—Minnesota, September–November 2021
2023 Jan 19:13:1063261 - PubMed, NEJM: Multistate Outbreak of Melioidosis Associated with Imported Aromatherapy Spray
2022 Mar 3;386(9):861-868 - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Fatal Human Rabies Infection With Suspected Host-Mediated Failure of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Following a Recognized Zoonotic Exposure-Minnesota, 2021
2023 Oct 13;77(8):1201-1208 - Oxford Academic, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Aging and Rabies Prophylaxis, Reply to Willoughby
2023 Sep 18;77(6):931-932
- PubMed, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Transmission Dynamics of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in High-Density Settings, Minnesota, USA, March–June 2020
2021 Aug;27(8):2052-2063 - PubMed, Minnesota Medicine: Characteristics of clinical extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria isolates in Minnesota, 2013-2017
2020 Jun;103(3):39-43 - PubMed, Minnesota Medicine: Vaping, lung injury, and mental health Minnesota 2018-2019
2021 Jan 5;104(3):41-43 - CDC MMWR: Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Among Residents and Staff Members of an Independent and Assisted Living Community for Older Adults — Seattle, Washington, 2020
2020 Apr 10;69(14);416–418 - CDC MMWR: Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility — King County, Washington, March 2020
2020 Apr 3;69(13);377–381 - CDC MMWR: SARS-CoV-2 Exposure and Infection Among Health Care Personnel — Minnesota, March 6–July 11, 2020
2020 Oct 30;69(43);1605–1610 - CDC MMWR: Notes from the Field: Acute Intoxications from Consumption of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms — Minnesota, 2018
2019 May 31;68(21);483–484 - CDC MMWR: Serial Testing for SARS-CoV-2 and Virus Whole Genome Sequencing Inform Infection Risk at Two Skilled Nursing Facilities with COVID-19 Outbreaks — Minnesota, April–June 2020
2020 Sep. 18;69(37);1288–1295 - CDC MMWR: Symptom Profiles of a Convenience Sample of Patients with COVID-19 — United States, January–April 2020
2020 Jul 17;69(28);904–908 - CDC MMWR: Characteristics of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Products Used by Patients with Associated Lung Injury and Products Seized by Law Enforcement — Minnesota, 2018 and 2019
2019 Nov 27; 68(47);1096-1100 - PubMed, NEJM: Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility
2020 May 28;382(22):2081-2090 - PubMed, Public Health Report: Lessons Learned From the E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) Outbreak Response, Minnesota, 2019-2020
2022 Nov-Dec;137(6):1053-1060
- PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Live Animal Markets in Minnesota: A Potential Source for Emergence of Novel Influenza A Viruses and Interspecies Transmission
Choi, et. al (Mackel Award)
2015 Nov 1;61(9):1355-62 - PubMed, PLoS One: Epidemiologic Investigation of Immune-Mediated Polyradiculoneuropathy among Abattoir Workers Exposed to Porcine Brain
Holzbauer, et. al (Langmuir Award)
2010 Mar 19;5(3):e9782
Supervisor and Mentor Recent Publications
- CDC MMWR: Increase in Pediatric Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections — Colorado and Minnesota, October–December 2022
2023 Mar 10;72(10);265–267 - Science Direct, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding tick-borne disease prevention in Lyme disease-endemic areas of the Upper Midwest, United States
2022 May; Volume 13, Issue 3, 101925 - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: High Relative Frequency of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Among Patients With Reportable Enteric Pathogens, Minnesota, 2016–2017
2019 Jul 18;69(3):473-479 - PubMed, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Characteristics and Risk Factors of Post-Infection Irritable Bowel Syndrome After Campylobacter Enteritis
2021 Sep;19(9):1855-1863.e1 - PubMed, Epidemiology and Infection: Epidemiology of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in Minnesota, 2016–2017
2020 Sep; 1:148:e206 - CDC MMWR: Estimated Effectiveness of JYNNEOS Vaccine in Preventing Mpox: A Multijurisdictional Case-Control Study — United States, August 19, 2022–March 31, 2023
2023 May 19; 72(20);553–558 - NIH, Open Forum Infect Dis: Evidence of False Positivity for Vibrio Species Tested by Gastrointestinal Multiplex PCR Panels, Minnesota, 2016–2018
2021 Jun; 8(6): ofab247 - PubMed, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Decreased Susceptibility to Azithromycin in Clinical Shigella Isolates Associated with HIV and Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Diseases, Minnesota, USA, 2012–2015
2020 Apr;26(4):667-674 - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Fatal Human Rabies Infection With Suspected Host- Mediated Failure of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Following a Recognized Zoonotic Exposure—Minnesota, 2021
2023 Oct 13;77(8):1201-1208 - PubMed, Epidemiology and Infection: Animal agriculture exposures among Minnesota residents with zoonotic enteric infections, 2012-2016
2020 Mar 16:148:e55 - CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Development and Evaluation of Surveillance System for Identifying Jail-Associated COVID-19 Cases in Minnesota, USA, 2022
2024 Apr;30(13):S28-S35 - PubMed, Epidemiology and Infection: Prospective Salmonella Enteritidis surveillance and outbreak detection using whole genome sequencing, Minnesota 2015-2017
2020 Jun 16:148:e254 - CDC MMWR: Characteristics of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Products Used by Patients with Associated Lung Injury and Products Seized by Law Enforcement — Minnesota, 2018 and 2019
2019 Nov. 27;68(47) - PubMed, Clinical Infectious Diseases: Detection of Influenza C Viruses Among Outpatients and Patients Hospitalized for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, Minnesota, 2013–2016
2018 Mar 19;66(7):1092-1098 - PubMed, Journal of Infectious Diseases: Summer Outbreak of Severe RSV-B Disease, Minnesota, 2017 Associated with Emergence of a Genetically Distinct Viral Lineage
2020 Jun 29;222(2):288-297 - PubMed, Public Health Rep.: Biosurveillance of Drug Overdoses and Substance Misuse Treated in Selected Emergency Departments in Minnesota, 2017-2020
2021 Nov-Dec;136(1_suppl):87S-95S