Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health
Public Health Laboratory
12750 Erickson Avenue
Downey, California 90242

Laboratory Director
Nicole M. Green, Ph.D, D (ABMM)
Phone: (562) 658-1300
Fax: (562) 401-5999

Monday - Friday
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Afghani, B., JM Liberman, MB Duke, and HR Stutman. Comparison of Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction, Acid Fast Bacilli Smear, and Culture Results in Patients Receiving Therapy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis. 1997 Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 29:73-79

Ciemens, EL, LA Borenstein, I. Dyer, E. Cordero, J. Courtney, SM Harvey, and GA Richwald. Comparisons of Cost and Accuracy of DNA Probe Test and Culture for the Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Patients Attending Public Sexually Transmitted Disease clinics in Los AngelesCounty. 1997 Sex. Trans. Dis. 24:422-428.

Crow, L., W. Lau, L. McLeod et al. Outbreak of Shigella sonnei Infection Associated with Eating Fresh Parsley - United States and Canada, July - August 1998. MMWR 1999; 48:285-289

Kool JL., U. Buchholz, C. Peterson, E. Brown, R. Benson, J. Pruckler, B. Fields, J. Sturgeon, E. Lehnkering, L. Mascola, J. Butler. Strengths and LImitations of Molecular Subtyping in a Community Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease. Epidemiol. Infect. Vol 125, pp 599-608, 2000

Nitt, A., L. Knowles, J. Kim, E. Lehnkering, L. Borenstein, P. Davidson, S. Harvey, M. DeKoning. Limited Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Despite a High Proportion of Infectious Cases in Los Angeles county, California. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. vol 165. pp 812-817, 2002

Oh, P., R. Granich, J. Scott, B. sune, M. Joseph, C. Stringfield, S. Thisdell, J. Staley, D. Workman-Malcolm, L. Borenstein, E. Lehnkering, P. Ryan, J. Soukup, A. Nitta, J. Flood. Human Infection in an Outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Among Multiple Animal species in a Metropolitian Zoo. EID. Vol. 8, No. 11, Nov 2002

ABSTRACTS

Borenstein, LA, E. Cordero, IE Dyer. JG Courtney, CL Pearce, PJ Katsufrakis, GA Richwald, and SM Harvey. Comparison of Gen-Probe Pace 2 and Culture for Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Rectal and Pharyngeal Specimens. Abstract No. C93: 96th Annu. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol, May 19-28, 1996, New Orleans, LA.

Borenstein LA, Dyer IE, Courtney JG, Richwald GA. Survey of chlamydia diagnostic tests and detection of infection in Los Angeles County, 1990-1994. Accepted for Annu. Meet. Am. Pub.Hlth. Assoc., Nov. 17-21, 1996, New York, NY.

Borenstein LA, IE Dyer, J Gamble, GA Richwald, and SM Harvey. Validation of Amplicor Chlamydia trachomatis PCR Assaay for Female Urine Specimens. 37th Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 1997, Toronto, Canada.

Borenstein, LA, IE Dyer, H Rotblatt, GA Richwald. Urine Chlamydia Screening of Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall Detainees Using the Abbott LCx Ligase Chain Reaction Assay. National STD Prevention Conf. Dec. 9-12 1996, Tampa FL.

Borenstein, SM Harvey, CL Pearce, G. Gati, A Efird, O Zaidel, IE Dyer, GA Richwald, PJ Katsufrakis. Etiology of Urethritis in Men Who Have Sex with Men. International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. March 8-11, 1998, Atlanta, GA.

Ciemins EL, Borenstein LA, Dyer IE, Cordero E, Harvey SM, Courtney JG, Richwald GA. Cost-analysis of DNA probe test vs. culture for the detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Accepted for Annu. Meet. Am. Pub.Hlth. Assoc., Nov. 17-21, 1996, New York, NY.

Cordero EM, LA. Borenstein, LE Cu, SM Harvey. Comparison of Abbott Ligase Chain Reaction with Gen-Probe PACE 2 and Culture for Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Endocervical Specimens. 97th ASM General Meeting May 4-8, 1997, Miami Beach FL.

Dyer, IE, LA Borenstein, H Rotblatt, GA Richwald. Chlamydia Screening in Los Angeles County High School Students Using a Urine Ligase Chain Reaction Assay. National STD Prevention Conf. Dec. 9-12 1996, Tampa FL.

Dyer I, LA Borenstein and G. Richwald. Surveys of STD Testing in Los Angeles County: A Ten Year Retrospective. APHA 125th Annual Meeting,, Nov. 9-13 1997 Indianapolis, IN.

Dyer IE, Courtney JG, Pearce CL, Borentstein LA, Katsufrakis PJ, Miller ME, Harvey SM, Richwald GA. Predictors of rectal and pharyngeal gonococcal infection in men attending an STD clinic in Hollywood. Accepted for Annu. Meet. Am. Pub.Hlth. Assoc., Nov. 17-21, 1996, New York, NY.

Lehnkering EL, RJ Kilman, SM Harvey, EA Ortiz. Poster presentation of "The Advantage of the Secondary Probe pTBN12 in the DNA Fingerprinting Analysis of a Laboratory Cross Contamination" at 98th ASM General Meeting, May 19, 1998

Lehnkering E., F. Rashidian, LA. Borenstein, SM Harvey. Poster presentation of "Independent Origin of Mono-Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Los Angeles County" at 97th ASM General Meeting, May 8, 1997.

Pearce CL, Katsufrakis PJ, Dyer IE, Courtney JG, Borenstein LA, Harvey SM, Richwald GA. Urethral chlamydia prevalence among men attending a gay and lesbian STD clinic. Accepted for Annu. Meet. Am. Pub.Hlth. Assoc., Nov. 17-21, 1996, New York, NY.

Pearce CL, Katsufrakis PJ, Dyer IE, Richwald GA, Borenstein LA, Courtney JG. Predictors of HIV testing history among men attending an STD clinic in Hollywood, California. XI International Conference on AIDS, Aug. 1996, Vancouver, Canada.

Yasuda LM, EL Lehnkering, RJ Kilman, EA Ortiz, SM Harvey. Poster Presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Elephants; Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Utilizing Both IS6110 and pTBN12 Probes" at 98th ASM General Meeting, May 19, 1998.

Awards

Co-recipient of the 1999 PulseStar Award for Contributions to Pulsnet