Eugene Hurwitz Publications
For over twenty years, Dr. Hurwitz has been very active in researching and publishing his findings regarding many topics in the area of healthcare. Below is a list of his credits.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Nelson DB, Holman RA. Guillain-Barre Syndrome following influenza vaccination, United States, 1978‑1979. NEJM 1981;304;1557‑1561.
2. Hurwitz ES, Johnson D, Campbell K. Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamineresistant P. falciparum in Khmer refugees in Sulfadoxine‑Pyrimethamine resistant P. falciparum in Khmer refugees in Eastern Thailand. The Lancet 1981;1068‑1070.
3. Hurwitz ES, Nelson DB, Holman RH, Schonberger LB. National surveillance for Guillain‑Barre Syndrome. Neurology 1983;33;150‑157.
4. Hurwitz ES, Schell W, Nelson D. California encephalitis in Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1978. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1983;32;595‑601.
5. Hurwitz ES, Goodman RA. An outbreak of Reye Syndrome cases associated with chickenpox. Pediatrics 1982;70;901‑906.
6. Hurwitz ES, Nelson DB, Davis CA, et al. Reye Syndrome: Trends in national surveillance, 1973‑1980. Pediatrics 1982;70;895‑900.
7. Halpin T, Holtzhauer F, Campbell B, Hurwitz ES, et al. Association between Reye Syndrome and salicylates. JAMA 1982;248;687.
8. Kaplan JE, Katona P, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB. Guillain‑Barre Syndrome in the United States, 1979‑80 and 1980‑81‑‑Lack of an association with influenza A vaccination. JAMA 1982;248;698‑700.
9. Nelson DB, Hurwitz ES, Sullivan‑Bolyai JZ, et al. Reye's Syndrome in the United States in 1977‑1978, a non‑influenza B virus year. J Inf Dis 1979;140(3);436‑439.
10. Halsey NA, Hurwitz ES, Meiklejohn G, et al. Reye's Syndrome associated with influenza A (H1N1) in Colorado, Pediatrics 1980;4;535‑539.
11. Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES, Katona P, et al. Guillain‑Barre Syndrome: Its epidemiology and associations with influenza vaccination. Annals of Neurology 1981;9 (Supplement) ;31‑38.
12. Nelson DB, Holman RA, Hurwitz ES, et al. National surveillance for Guillain‑Barre Syndrome. Neurology 1979;29;1029‑1032.
13. Morens DM, Anderson LA, Hurwitz ES. National surveillance for Kawasaki disease. Pediatrics 1980;65;21‑25.
14. Hurwitz ES. Reye's Syndrome and influenza A, U. S., 1978‑79. Journal of the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation 1980;1;18‑20.
15. Cherry J, Hurwitz ES, Welliver R. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections and exanthems. J Pediatr 1975;87(3);369‑373.
16. Hurwitz ES. T‑4 phage receptors. California Institute of Technology, Annual Review 1971.
17. Hurwitz ES. Malaria among newly arrived refugees in Thailand, 1979‑1980. Emergency refugee health‑care ‑‑ a chronicle of experience in the Khmer assistance operation 1979‑1980;43‑47.
18. Bell DM, Morens DM, Holman RC, Hurwitz ES. Kawasaki disease in the United States, 1976‑1980. Am J Dis Child 1983;137;211‑214.
19. Anderson LJ, Morens DM, Hurwitz ES. Kawasaki Disease in a young adult. Archives of Internal Medicine l980;l40;280‑28l.
20. Kaplan JE, Schonberger, Hurwitz ES, Katona P. Guillain Barre syndrome in the United States 1978‑1981: Additional observations from the national surveillance system. Neurology 1983;33;633‑737.
21. Rogers MR, Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES. National Reye syndrome surveillance, 1982. Pediatric 1985;75;260‑264.
22. Hurwitz ES, Barrett M, Rogers MR, Schonberger LB. Grade I Reye's Syndrome‑letter to the Editor. NEJM 1984;310;128.
23. New Brunswick Task Force. Report of the New Brunswick Task Force on the environment and Reye's syndrome. Clinical and Investigative Medicine 1982;5;203‑214.
24. Kinney JS, Onorato IM, Stewart JA, Pass RF, Stagno S, Cheeseman SH, Chin J, Kumar ML, Yaeger AS, Herrmann KL, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB. Perspective: Cytomegalovirus infection and disease. J Infec Dis 1985;151:5;772‑774.
25. Rogers MF, Rutherford GW, Alexander SR, DiLiberti JH, Foster L, Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES. A population‑based study of Hemolytic‑uremic syndrome in Oregon, 1979‑82. Am J. Epidemiology 1986;123;1;137‑142 .
26. Rogers MF, Kochel RL, Hurwitz ES, Jillson CA, Hanrahan JP, Schonberger LB. Kawasaki syndrome: Is exposure to rug shampoo important? AJDC; Aug 1985;139;297‑299.
27. Hurwitz ES, Barrett MJ, Bregman D, Gunn WJ, Schonberger LB, et al. Public health service study on Reye's syndrome and medications: Report of the pilot phase. NEJM; Oct 1985;313;14;849‑857.
28. Rauch AM, Hurwitz ES. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Case Definition for Kawasaki syndrome; Letter to the Editor. Ped Inf Dis; 1985;4;702‑703.
29. Barrett MJ, Hurwitz ES, Rogers MF, Schonberger LB. The epidemiology of Reye's syndrome in the United States: the National Reye's Syndrome Surveillance System ‑ 1974‑1984. In: Pollack JD: Reye's Syndrome IV, The National Reye's Syndrome Foundation 1985;69‑84.
30. Barrett MJ, Hurwitz ES, Patriarca PA, Schonberger LB, Michaels R, Jaffee R, Lehberger SL. Reye syndrome in connective tissue disease (letter to editor). J Pediatr 1986;108;1043‑1044.
31. Hurwitz ES, Barrett MJ, Gunn WJ, et al. Public health service study of Reye syndrome and medications: Report of the main study. JAMA 1987;257:4;1905‑1911.
32. Kinney JS, Gross TP, Porter CC, Rogers MF, Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES. Hemolytic‑uremic syndrome: A population‑based study in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. Am J Pub Hth 1988;78;1;64‑65.
33. Hedberg CW, Fishbein DB, Janssen RS, Hurwitz ES, et al. An outbreak of thyrotoxicosis associated with consumption of bovine thyroid in ground beef. N Engl J Med 1987;316;993‑998.
34. Kinney JS, Hurwitz ES, Fishbein DB, Woolf PD, Pinsky PF, et al. A community outbreak of thyrotoxicosis epidemiology, immunogenetic characteristics and long‑term outcome. JAMA 1988;84;10‑18.
35. Rauch AR, Kaplan S, Nahill M, Pappas PG, Hurwitz ES. Kawasaki syndrome clusters in Harris County, Texas and Eastern North Carolina: A high endemic rate and a new environmental risk factor. AJDC 1988; 142; 441‑444
36. Anderson LJ, Hurwitz ES. "Human parvovirus B19 and pregnancy" chapter in Clinics in Perinatology 1988; 15:2; 273‑286.
37. Pinsky PF, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Gunn WJ. Reye syndrome and salicylates: Evidence for a dose‑response effect. JAMA 1988;260:5;657‑661.
38. Rauch AM, Glode MP, Wiggins JW Jr, Rodriguez J, Hopkins RS, Hurwitz ES. Outbreak of Kawasaki syndrome‑‑Denver, Colorado.
39. Hayes EB, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Anderson LJ. Respiratory syncytial outbreak on American Samoa: Evaluation of risk factors. AJDC 1989;143;3:316‑321.
40. Hurwitz ES. The changing epidemiology of Reye's syndrome in the United States: further evidence for a public health success. JAMA 1988;260;21:3178‑3180.
41. Hayes EB, Matte TD,...Hurwitz ES, et al. Contamination of a conventionally treated filtered public water supply by Cryptosporidium associated with a large community outbreak of cryptosporidiosis. NEJM 1989;320:1372‑1376.
42. Farley TA, Gillespie S, Rasoulpour M, Tolentino N, Hadler S, Hurwitz E. Epidemiology of a cluster of Henoch‑Schonlein purpura. AJDC 1989;143:798‑803.
43. Hurwitz ES. Reye syndrome, a review. Epidemiologic Reviews, 1989.
44. Warren D., Nelson KE, Farrar JA, Hurwitz E, Hierholzer J, Ford E, Anderson LJ. A large outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis: Problems in controlling noscomial spread. Journal of Infectious Diseases 160:938‑943.
45. Gillespie SM, Cartter ML, Asch S., Kokos JB, Gary GW, Tsou C, Hall DB, Anderson LJ, Hurwitz ES. Human Parvovirus B19: Occupational risk for school and day care personnel during an outbreak of fifth disease. In press, JAMA.
46. Hurwitz ES, Gunn WJ, Pinsky PF, Schonberger LB. A nationwide study of the risk of respiratory illness associated with day care attendance. Pediatrics 1991 Jan;87(1):62-9
47. Rauch AM, Glode MP, Wiggins JW, Rodriguez JG, Hurwitz ES et al. Outbreak of Kawasaki syndrome in Denver, Colorado: association with rug and carpet cleaning. Pediatrics 1991 May; 87(5): 663-9.
49. Baker BL, Axiotis C, Hurwitz ES, Leavitt R, Di Bisceglie AM. Nodular regenerative hyperplasia of the liver in idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome. J Clin Gastroenterol 1991 Aug;13(4):452-6
50. Willy ME, Koziol DE, Fleischer T, Koo S, McFarland H, Schmitt J., Wesley R, Hurwitz E, Henderson DK. Measles immunity in a population of healthcare workers. Inf Control and Hosp Epi 1994 Jan; 15(1):12-17
51. Stroup NE, Dufour MC, Hurwitz ES, Desenclos JC. Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases. In: Brownson RG, Remington PL and Davis JR eds. Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control: APHA 1993:241-255.
52. Hurwitz ES, Deseda CC, Shapiro CN, et. al. Hepatitis infections related to the day care setting. Pediatrics, 1994 Dec; 94(6):1023-1024.
53. Hurwitz ES, Holman RC, Strine TW, Chorba TL, Shapiro CN, Margolis H, Chronic Liver Disease Mortality in the United States, 1978-1989. In press, Am J. Public Health
54. Hurwitz ES,Cordell R.Infectious Disease and Out of Home Child Care. Current Issues in Public Health, 1995, Vol 1:263-266.
55. Hurwitz ES, Haeber M, Chang A, Shope T, Teo S, Cox N.,Efficacy and Effectiveness of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Among Children Attending Day Care. JAMA, 2000, Vol 284:13; 1677-1682
56. Hurwitz ES, Haber M, Chang A, et al. Studies of the 1996-97 inactivated influenza vaccine among children attending day care. J Infect Dis. 2000; 182: 1218-1221
Manuscripts submitted for publication and in preparation:
Hurwitz ES, Nizham A, Longini I, Brown M, Waterman S. Household Transmission of Respiratory Illnesses among Children Attending Day Care. Submitted to Pediatrics.
Hurwitz ES, Nizham A, Longini I, Brown M, Waterman S., submitted to American Journal of Public Health Household Transmission of Respiratory Illnesses among Children Attending Day Care.
Hurwitz ES, Teo S, Chang A, in preparation. Effectivess of Influenza Vaccine Among Day Care Providers.
ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. Hurwitz ES. California encephalitis in Wisconsin, presented at the EIS Conference, Centers for Disease Control, April 1979.
2. Hurwitz ES. Reye Syndrome and influenza A, 1978‑79, presented at the EIS Conference, Centers for Disease Control, April 1979.
3. Hurwitz ES. Malaria in Khmer Refugees in Eastern Thailand, presented at the EIS Conference, Centers for Disease Control, 1980.
4. Hurwitz ES, et al. Reye Syndrome and influenza A, presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), October 1979.
5. Halsey NA, Hurwitz ES, Meiklejohn G., et al. Epidemic of Reye Syndrome associated with Influenza A(H1N1), presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), October 1979.
6. Hurwitz ES. Reye Syndrome in the United States, presented at the National Institutes of Health, Workshop on Influenza B and Reye syndrome, July 1979.
7. Hurwitz ES. Epidemiology and Virology of Reye Syndrome, presented at the Italian‑Spanish Microbiology Conference, Rome, Italy, October 1980.
8. Hurwitz ES. National trends in Reye Syndrome, 1973‑1980, presented at the Reye Syndrome Symposium III, Detroit, November 1980.
9. Hurwitz ES. The incidence and epidemiology of Reye Syndrome, presented at the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Reye syndrome, Washington D.C., March 1981.
10. Hurwitz ES. Reye Syndrome epidemiology and studies, presented at the National Institute of Environmental Health, April 1979.
11. Hurwitz ES. California Encephalitis in Wisconsin and Minnesota, presented at the Interstate Meeting on Arboviral Diseases, LaCrosse, Wisconsin; November 1978.
12. Rowley DL, Hurwitz ES, Morens DM. Surveillance for Reye Syndrome, United States, presented at the AWES Conference, Centers for Disease Control, April 1982.
13. Hurwitz ES, Kramer M, Larke RPB, et.al. A Possible Relationship between Reye Syndrome and Spraying for the Spruce Budworm, presented at the EIS Conference, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, April 1983.
14. Rauch AM, Rodriguez JG, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Glode MP, Wiggins JW, Hopkins RS. Outbreak of Kawasaki Syndrome, Denver, Colorado. Abstract for the Twenty‑fifth ICAAC;Sept 1985:162.
15. Rauch AM, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Nahill M, Kaplan SL, Seavy DE, Reeve GR. Cluster of Kawasaki Syndrome Cases, Harris County, Texas. Abstract for the Twenty‑fifth ICAAC;Sept 1985:162.
16. Holmes GP, Hurwitz ES, Barrett MJ, Arden NA, Prendergast TJ, Schonberger LB. Cluster of Acute Myocarditis Associated with an Influenza‑Like Illness and High Mortality, Orange County, California, 1986. Abstract ‑ Late Breaker ‑ for the 1986 EIS Conference.
17. Warren D, Farrar J, Hurwitz ES, Nelson K, Hierholzer J, Ford E, Anderson L. A Large Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis (EKC): Problems in Controlling Nosocomial Spread. Abstract for the Twenty‑sixth ICAAC, New Orleans, LA, 1986.
18. Hurwitz ES. Reye Syndrome and Salicylates Third International Congress on Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, July 2, 1986.
19. Hurwitz ES. Epidemiologic Aspects of Reye Syndrome in the United States, The Royal Society of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, July 3, 1986.
20. Hurwitz ES. Presentations Concerning the Public Health Service Study of Reye Syndrome and Medications before the Institute of Medicine Committee on Reye Syndrome, National Academy of Sciences July 1983, August 1984, December 1984, September 1986.
21. Hayes EB, Matte TD, O'Brien TR, Cummings ML, Wilson MA, Pinsky PF, Long, EG, Nahlen BL, Hurwitz ES, Sacks JJ, Juranek DD. Community Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis Associated with Public Water Supply. Abstract for the Twenty‑Seventh ICAAC, October 1987.
22. Rauch AM, Hurwitz ES, Pinsky PF, Schonberger LB. Kawasaki Syndrome, United States 1976‑1985. Abstract for the Twenty‑Seventh ICAAC, October 1987.
23. Rauch AM, Pegues DA, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB, Mason WH, Takahashi M, Weiss BA, Waterman SH. Outbreak of Kawasaki Syndrome, Los Angeles, California. Abstract for the Twenty‑Seventh ICAAC, October 1987.
24. Hurwitz ES. Etiology and Epidemiology of ALRI in Children in Developing Countries, presented at a Meeting on Research Priorities on Acute Lower Respiratory Infections for the WHO ARI Programme, Hanover, West Germany, May 1988.
25. Hurwitz ES. The Epidemiology & Public Health Importance of Hepatitis A Related to Day Care Centers, (International Conference on Child Day Care Health, June 15, 1992, CDC Atlanta, GA.)
26. Moderator Hepatitis Infectious Related to the Day Care Setting (International Conference on Child Day Care Health, June 15, 1992, CDC Atlanta, GA.)
27. Hurwitz ES. Chronic Liver Disease Associated with Viral Hepatitis Deaths in the U.S., ICCAC, Anaheim, California, October 14, 1992.
28. Hurwitz ES. Comparative Immunogenicity of Recombivax and Engerix Hepatitis B Vaccine in Selected Populations, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 1992
29. Hurwitz ES. Chronic Liver Disease Deaths Associated with Viral Hepatitis in the United States Abstract for Seventh National Conference on Chronic Disease Preventions & Control, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 21-23, 1992.
30. Hurwitz ES, Nizham A, Longini I, Brown M, Waterman S.Household Transmission Respiratory Ilnesses among Children Attending Day Care, ICAAC, New Orleans, La, September, 1996
31. Nadel Z, Hurwitz ES, Averhoff F, Mahoney F. Imunogenicity of Hepatitis B and Influenza Vaccines, New Orleans, La, September, 1996
32. Martin BA, Shope T, Chang A, Teo S, Curns A, Hurwitz E. Antibiotic Use in Military Daycare and Otitis Media Prophylaxis. Semi-Finalist for the Howard Johnson Award. Presented at the 31st Annual Uniformed Services Pediatric Seminar, 1-5 March 1997, San Antonio, Texas.
33. Hurwitz ES, Haeber M, Chang A, Shope T, Teo S, Cox N. Efficacy and Effectiveness of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Among Children Attending Day Care. First International Confernence on Vaccines, Washington, D.C., June 1, 1998.
34. Hurwitz ES, Chang A, Haber, M. et al. Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in of Children attending
daycare in Reducing Influenza-like illnesses household contacts. 38th ICAAC, San Diego, Ca.,
Sept 24-27, 1998.





