Joseph E. McDade
Chapters in Books
Olson, J.G. and McDade, J.E. 2004. Rickettsia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia akari. In S.L. Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds). Infectious Diseases (3rd ed), pp. 1884-1886. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ostroff, S.M., McDade, J.E., LeDuc J.W., and Hughes, J.M. 2004. Emerging and reemerging
infectious disease threats. In G.L. Mandell, J.E. Bennett and R. Dolin (ed). Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease (6th edition), pp. 173-192. Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McDade, J.E. and Olson, J.G. 2004. Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia prowazekii. In S.L.
Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds). Infectious Diseases (3rd ed), pp. 1881-
1884. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Inglesby, T.V., O’Toole, T., Henderson, D.A., Bartlett, J.G., Ascher, M.S., Eitzen, E., Friedlander, A.M., Gerberding, J.L., Hauer, J., Hughes, J.M., McDade, J. E., Osterholm M.T., Parker G., Perl, T.M., Russell, P. K. Tonet, K. 2002. Anthrax as a biological weapon: Updated recommendations for management,pp. 63-97 In, D. A. Henderson, T. V. Inglesby, and T. O”Toole (eds), Bioterrosim: guidelines for medical and public health management. AMA Press, Chicago IL.
Inglesby, T.V., Dennis, D., Henderson, D.A., Bartlett, J.G., Ascher, M.S., Eitzen, E., Fine, A.D.,
Friedlander, A.M., Hauer, J., Koerner, J.F., Layton, M., McDade, J.E., Osterholm, M.T., O’Toole, T., Parker, P., Perl, T.M., Russells, Schoch-Spana, M., Tonat, K. 2002. Plague as a biological weapon, pp. 121-140, In, D. A. Henderson, T. V. Inglesby, and T. O”Toole (eds), Bioterrosim: guidelines for medical and public health management. AMA Press, Chicago IL.
McDade, J.E. 2002. Legionnaires disease 25 years later: Lessons learned, pp. 1-10 In R. Marre, Y. A. Kwaik, et al (ed). Legionella. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
Olson, J. G. and McDade, J.E. 2000. Ehrlichiosis. In D. Schlossberg (ed.) Current Therapy of
Infectious Diseases (2nd Ed), pp. 489-492. Mosby, St. Louis, Missouri.
LeDuc, J. E., Ostroff, S. M., McDade, J. E., Lillibridge, S., and Hughes, J. M. 1999. The role of the public health community in detecting and responding to domestic terrorism involving infectious agents. In W. M. Scheld, W. A. Craig, and J. M. Hughes (ed) Emerging Infections 3, pp. 219-230, ASM Press, Washington, D. C.
McDade, J.E., and Hughes, J.M. 1999. New and emerging infectious diseases. In G.L. Mandell, J.E. Bennett and R. Dolin (ed). Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease (5th edition), pp. 178-183. Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Olson, J.G. and McDade, J.E. 1998. Rickettsia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia akari. In S.L. Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds). Infectious Diseases (2nd ed), pp. 2002-2004. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McDade, J.E. and Olson, J.G. 1998. Ehrlichiosis, Q fever, typhus, rickettsialpox and other
rickettsioses. In S.L. Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds). Infectious Diseases (2nd ed), pp. 1599-1611. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McDade, J.E. and Olson, J.G. 1998. Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. In S.L. Gorbach,
J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds). Infectious Diseases (2nd ed), pp. 1998-2001. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McDade, J.E. 1998. Rickettsial diseases. In W.J. Hausler, Jr. and M. Sussman (eds). Topley and
Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infectious (9th ed, Vol. 3), pp. 995-1011. Edward Arnold
Ltd., London, England.
Olson, J.G. and McDade, J.E. 1996. Ehrlichiosis. In D. Scholssberg (ed). Current Therapy of
Infectious Disease, pp. 406-8. Mosby, St. Louis, Mo.
Olson, J.G. and McDade, J.E. Rickettsia and Coxiella, In Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 6th ed, pp. 678-85. Amer. Soc. for Microbiol., Washington, D.C.
McDade, J.E. and Anderson, B.E. 1996. Molecular epidemiology: applications of nucleic acid
amplification and sequence analysis. In S.B. Thacker and M.M. Levine (eds). Emerging and reemerging infections. Epidemiologic Reviews 18;1:90-7.
McDade, J.E. 1992.Vacunas contra rickettsias. In A.E. Escobar-Gutiérrez, J.L. Valdespino Gómez, and J.S. Sepúlveda Amor (eds.) Vacunas Ciencia y Salud, pp. 285-99, Secretaría de Salud, México, D.F.
McDade, J.E. and Fishbein, D.B. 1992. Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. In S.L. Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds.) Infectious Diseases, pp. 1648-53. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
McDade, J.E. and Fishbein, D.B. 1992. Rickettsia akari and Rickettsia tsutsugamushi. In S.L.
Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds.) Infectious Diseases, pp. 1654-7. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
Fishbein, D.B. and McDade, J.E. 1992. Ehrlichiosis, Q fever, typhus, rickettsialpox, and other
rickettsioses. In S.L. Gorbach, J.G. Bartlett, and N.R. Blacklow (eds.) Infectious Diseases, pp.
1313-8. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
McDade, J.E. 1991. The Rickettsiae, In A. Balows, W.J. Hausler, Jr., K.L. Herrmann, H.I. Isenberg, and H.J. Shadomy (eds.) Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 5th ed. pp. 1036-44. Amer. Soc. For Microbiol., Washington, DC.
Regnery, R.L. and McDade, J.E. 1990. Coxiella burnetii (Q fever), a potential microbial
contaminant of the environment. In P.R. Morley, J.C. Feeley, Sr., J.A. Otten (eds.) Biological
Contaminants in Indoor environments. 115-135. Amer. Soc. for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA.
McDade, J.E. and Fishbein, D.B. 1988. Rickettsiaceae: The Rickettsiae, pp. 864-90, In E.H.
Lennette, P. Halonen, and F. Murphy (ed). The Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases,
Principles and Practices. Springer-Verlog, New York.
McDade, J.E. 1990. Historical aspects of Q fever, In T.J. Marrie (ed.) Q fever, Vol. I, pp. 5-21. CRC Press, Boca Raton. FL.
McDade, J.E. 1985. Infectious Disease Diagnosis, pp. 137-58, In D. Gordon (ed). Monoclonal
Antibodies in Clinical Diagnostic Medicine. Igaku-Shoin Press, New York.
McDade, J.E. 1982. Legionnaire's Disease. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (5th ed):626.
McDade, J.E., Wells, D.E., Brooks, J.B., and Alley, C.C. 1981. Gas-liquid chromatography of
acute-phase serum as a technique for early diagnosis of rickettsial diseases. In: W. Burgdorfer and R.L. Anacker, ed. Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases. Academic Press, pp. 631-9.
Brenner, D.J., Steigerwalt, A.G., Hebert, G.A., and McDade, J.E. 1979. Legionella pneumophila
sp. nov.: The Legionnaires' Disease Bacterium. In: "Legionnaires'"--the disease, the bacterium, and methodology. G.L. Jones and G.A. Hebert, ed. U.S. Department of HEW, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control.
Newhouse, V.F., Redus, M.A., Tzianabos, T., Shepard, C.C., and McDade, J.E. 1978. Toward more standard methods of serological diagnosis of rickettsial diseases. In: Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases. J. Kazar, R.A. Ormsbee, and I.N. Tarasevich, ed. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, Smolenice, June 21-25, 1976. VEDA Publishing House, Bratislava.
Articles, Refereed
Potter, P. and McDade, J.E. 2003. A journal for our times: launching Emerging Infectious Diseases. Science Editor 26: 75-81, 2003.
Dennis, D. T., Inglesby, T. V., Henderson, D. A., Bartlett, J.G., Ascher, M.S., Eitzen, E., Fine, A. D., Friedlander, A. M., Hauer, J., Layton, M., Lillibridge, S. R., McDade, J. E., Osterholm, M. T., O=Toole, T., Parker, G., Perl, T. M., Russell, P. K., and Tonat, K. 2001. Tularemia as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA 285: 2763-2773.
McDade, J.E. 2000. New and emerging pathogens. Internat. J. Clin. Practice Supplement 115: 55-59.
McDade, J.E. 1999. Addressing the potential threat of bioterrorism - value added to an improved
public health infrastructure. Emerg. Inf. Dis. 5: 591-592.
Inglesby, T.V., Henderson, D.A., Bartlett J.G., Ascher, M.S., Eitzer, E., Friedlander, A.M., Hauer, J., McDade, J.E., Osterholm, M.T., O’Toole, T., Parker, G., Perl, T.M., Russell, P.K., Tonat, K. 1999. Anthrax as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA 281:1735-1745.
Henderson, D.A., Inglesby, T.V., Bartlett, J.G., Ascher, M.S., Eitzen, E., Jahrling, P.G., Hauer, J., Layton, M., McDade, J.E., Osterholm, M.T., O’Toole, T., Parker, G., Perl, T., Russell, P.K., Tonat, K. 1999. Smallpox as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA 281: 2127-2137.
McDade, J.E., and Hughes, J.M. 1998. The U.S. needs a national laboratory system. U.S. Medicine 34:9.
McDade, J.E., and Franz, D. 1998. Bioterrorism as a public health threat. Emerg. Inf. Dis. 4:493-494.
McDade, J.E., and Hausler, W.J., Jr. 1998. Modernization of public health laboratories in a
privatization atmosphere. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998;36:609-13.
McDade, J.E. 1997. Global infectious diseases: surveillance and response. Aust. J. Med. Sci. 18:2-9.
Morse, S.A. and McDade, J.E. 1994. Recommendations for working with pathogenic bacteria. In
V.L. Clark and O.M. Bavoil (eds). Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 235, pp. 1-26. Academic Press
Inc., New York.
Perine, P., Krause, D., Awoke, S., Wisseman, C.L., and McDade, J.E. 1992. A clinicoepidemiological study of epidemic typhus in Africa. Clin. Inf. Dis. 14:1149-58.
42. McDade, J.E. 1991. Diagnosis of rickettsial diseases - a perspective. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 7:270-5.
Graves, S.R., Dwyer, B.W., McCall, D., and McDade, J.E. 1991. Flinders Island spotted fever: a
newly recognized endemic focus of tick typhus in Bass Strait. II. Serological investigations.' Med. J. Austral. 155:99-104.
McDade, J.E. 1990. Ehrlichiosis - a disease of animals and humans. J. Inf. Dis. 161:609-17.
McDade, J.E. 1990. Evidence supporting the hypothesis that rickettsial virulence factors determine the severity of spotted fever and typhus group infections. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 590:20-5.
Tzianabos, T., Anderson, B.E., and McDade, J.E. 1989. Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii DNA in
clinical specimens using polymerase chain reaction technology. J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:2866-8.
McDonald, J.E., MacLean, J.D., and McDade, J.E. 1989. Imported rickettsial diseases: clinical and epidemiological features. Am. J. Med. 85:799-805.
McDade, J.E., Black, C.M., Roumillat, L.F., Redus, M.A., and Spruill, C.L. 1988. Addition of
monoclonal antibodies specific for Rickettsia akari to the rickettsial diagnostic panel. J. Clin.
Microbiol. 26:2221-3.
Sawyer, L.A., Fishbein, D.B., and McDade, J.E. 1988. Q fever in hepatitis and pneumonia patients in the United States: results of laboratory-based surveillance. J. Inf. Dis. 158:497-8.
Maeda, K., Markowitz, N., Hawley R.C., Ristic M., and McDade J.E. 1987. Human infection with Ehrlichia canis. N. Eng. J. Med. 317:899-900 (Letter).
Maeda, K., Markowitz, N., Hawley, R.C., Ristic, M., Cox, D., and McDade, J.E. 1987. Human
infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia. N. Engl. J. Med. 316:853-6.
McDade, J.E. 1987. Flying squirrels and their ectoparasites: disseminators of human epidemic
typhus. Parasitology Today 3:85-7.
Fishbein, D.B., Sawyer, L.A., Holland, C.J., Hayes, E.B., Okoroanyanwu, W., Williams, D., Sikes, R.K., Ristic, M., and McDade, J.E. l987. Unexplained febrile illnesses following exposure to ticks: infection with an Ehrlichia? J. Am. Med. Assoc. 257:3100-4.
Anderson, B.E., Regnery, R.L., Carlone G.M., Tzianabos, T., McDade, J.E., Zhang, Y.F., and
Bellini, W.J. 1987. Sequence analysis of the 17K antigen gene from Rickettsia rickettsii. J.
Bacteriol. 169:2385-90.
Sawyer, L.A., Fishbein, D.B., and McDade, J.E. 1987. Q fever: current concepts. Rev. Inf. Dis.
9:935-46.
Redus, M.A., Parker R.A., and McDade, J.E. 1986. Prevalence and distribution of spotted fever and typhus infections in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast. Int. J. Zoon. 13:104-11.
Fishbein, D.B. and McDade, J.E. Acute febrile cerebrovasculitis. 1986. Ann. Int. Med. 105:802
(Letter).
McDade, J.E. and Newhouse, V.F. 1986. Natural History of Rickettsia rickettsii. Ann. Rev.
Microbiol. 40:287-309.
McDade, J.E., Black, C.M., Redus, M.A., and Reimer, C.B. 1985. Epitope Mapping of Typhus
Rickettsiae. Proc. IIIrd International Symposium on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases. pp. 46-53.
McDade, J.E. 1984. Louse-borne typhus 1981-1982. Weekly Epidemiol. Record 59:29-30.
Regnery, R.L., Tzianabos, T., Esposito, J.J., and McDade, J.E. 1983. Strain differentiation of
epidemic typhus rickettsiae (Rickettsia prowazekii) by DNA restriction endonuclease analysis.
Current Microbiol., 8:355-8.
Black, C.M., Tzianabos, T., Roumillat, L.F., Redus, M.A., McDade, J.E., and Reimer, C.B. 1983.
Detection and characterization of mouse monoclonal antibodies to epidemic typhus rickettsiae. J.
Clin. Microbiol., 18:561-8.
Kaplan, J., McDade, J.E., and Newhouse, V.F. 1981. Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever in
the winter--epidemic typhus? N. Engl. J. Med., 305:1648 (Letter).
Tzianabos, T., Moss, C.W., and McDade, J.E. 1981. Fatty Acid Composition of rickettsiae. J. Clin. Microbiol. 13:603-5.
Brooks, J.B., McDade, J.E., Alley, C.C., and Edman, D.C. 1981. Rapid differentiation of Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, chickenpox, measles, and bacterial meningitis using frequency-pulsed
electron capture gas-liquid chromatography analysis of sera. J. Clin. Microbiol., 14,165-72.
Kaufmann, A., McDade, J.E., Patton, C.M., Bennett, J.V., Skaliy, P., Feeley, J.C., Anderson, D.C., Potter, M.E., Newhouse, V.F., Gregg, M.B., and Brachman, P.S. 1981. Pontiac fever: isolation of the etiologic agent (Legionella pneumophila) and demonstration of its mode of transmission. Am. J. Epid., 114:337-47.
McDade, J.E. and Shepard, C.C. 1980. Epidemic Typhus in the United States. Am. J. Trop. Med.
Hyg., 29:1468 (letter).
McDade, J.E., Shepard, C.D., Redus, M.A., Newhouse, V.F., and Smith, J.D. 1980. Evidence of
Rickettsia prowazekii infections in the United States. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 29:277-84.
Fraser, D.W. and McDade, J.E. 1979. Legionellosis. Sci. Am., 241:82-99.
McDade, J.E. and Shepard, C.C. 1979. Virulent to Avirulent conversion in the Legionnaires' disease bacterium (Legionella pneumophila)--its effect on isolation techniques. J. Inf. Dis., 139:707-11.
Newhouse, V.F., Shepard, C.C., Redus, M.A., Tzianabos, T., and McDade, J.E. 1979. A comparison of the complement fixation, indirect fluorescent antibody, and microagglutination tests for the serological diagnosis of rickettsial diseases. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 28:387-95.
McDade, J.E., Brenner, D.J., and Bozeman, F.M. 1979. Legionnaires' disease bacterium isolated in 1947. Ann. Int. Med. 90:659-61.
Brenner, D.J., Steigerwalt, A.G., and McDade, J.E. 1979. Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova. Ann. Int. Med., 90:656-8.
Chandler, F.W., McDade, J.E., Hicklin, M.D., Blackmon, J.A., and Ewing, E.P. 1979. Pathologic
findings in guinea pigs inoculated intra-peritoneally with the Legionnaires' disease bacterium. Ann. Int. Med., 90:671-5.
Thacker, S.B., Bennett, J.V., Tsai, T.F., Fraser, D.W., McDade, J.E., Shepard, C.C., Williams, K.H., Stuart, W.H., Dull, H.B., and Eickhoff, T.C. 1978. An outbreak in 1965 of severe respiratory illness caused by the Legionnaires' disease bacterium. J. Inf. Dis., 138:512-9.
Brenner, D.J., Steigerwalt, A., Weaver, R.E., McDade, J.E., Feeley, J.C., and Mander, M. 1978.
Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: an interim report. Current Microbiol., 1:71-5.
Lewis, V.J., Thacker, W.L., Shepard, C.C., and McDade, J.E. 1978. In vivo susceptibility of the
Legionnaires' disease bacterium to ten antimicrobial agents. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.,
13:419-22.
McDade, J.E., Shepard, C.C., Fraser, D.W., Tsai, T.R., Redus, M.A., Dowdle, W.R., and Laboratory Investigation Team. 1977. Legionnaires' disease. 2: Isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease. N. Engl. J. Med., 297:1197-203.
Fraser, D.W., Tsai, T.F., Orenstein, W., Beecham, H.W., Harris, J., Sharrar, R.G., Parking, W.,
Mallison, G.F., Martin, S.M., McDade, J.E., Shepard, C.C., Brachman, P.S., and Field Investigation Team. 1977. Legionnaires' Disease. 1. Description of an epidemic of pneumonia. N. Engl. J. Med., 297:1189-97.
Krause, D.W., Perine, P.L., McDade, J.E., and Awoke, S. 1975. Treatment of louse-borne typhus
fever with chloramphenicol, tetracycline or docycycline. E. Afr. Med. J., 52:421-7.
Perine, P.L., Krause, D.W., Awoke, S., and McDade, J.E. 1974. Single dose doxycycline treatment of louse-borne relapsing fever and epidemic typhus. Lancet ii: 742-4.
McDade, J.E., Zaklama, N.S., Imam, I.Z.E., and Wanees, M. 1973. Serological survey for Q fever in Egyptian domestic animals. J. Egypt. Publ. Hlth. Assoc., 48:101-8.
McDade, J.E. and Gerone, P.J. 1970. Plaque assay for Q fever and scrub typhus rickettsiae. Appl.
Microbiol., 19:963-5.
McDade, J.E., Stakebake, J.R., and Gerone, P.J. 1969. Plaque assay system for several species of
Rickettsia. J. Bact., 99:910-2.
McDade, J.E. 1969. Determination of antibiotic susceptibility of Rickettsia by the plaque assay
technique. Appl. Microbiol., 18:133-5.
McDade, J.E. and Tripp, M.R. 1967. Lysozome in oyster mantle mucus. J. Invert. Pathol., 9:581-2.
McDade, J.E. and Tripp, M.R.1967. Lysozome in the hemolymph of the oyster, Crassosctrea
virginica. J. Invert. Pathol., 9:531-5.
McDade, J.E. and Tripp, M.R. 1967. Mechanisms of agglutination of red blood cells by oyster
hemolymph. J. Invert. Pathol., 9:523-30.
McDade, J., and Bailey, W.R. 1966. Further studies on the antigens of Escherichia coli 026:B6.
Can. J. Microbiol., 12:249-54.
Articles, Non-Refereed
McDade JE. Legionella and the Prevention of Legionellosis [book review]. Emerg. Infect.
Dis.2008;14:1006.
McDade, J.E., Potter P., and Drotman, D. P. 2005. Emerging Infectious Diseases: 10 years running. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 11: 497-498.
McDade, J.E. and Hughes, J. M. 2002. The Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal: A time of
transition. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 8: 103-1044.
McDade, J.E., and Wisseman, C.L., Jr. 1973. Studies of proposed extrahuman reservoirs of
epidemic typhus. In: International symposium on the control of lice and louse-borne diseases.
PAHO/WHO Sci. Publ., 263:113-7.
McDade, J.E. 1999. Obituary: Charles Louis Wisseman, Jr. American Society for Rickettsiology
Newsletter, Vol. 2 (2) 405.
McDade, J.E. 1985. Obituary: Charles C. Shepard. Trop. Med. Hyg. News 34:84-5.
Manuals
McDade, J.E. 1981. Rocky Mountain spotted fever-A continuing health problem. CDC Laboratory Update No. 81-112. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
McDade, J.E. 1979. Primary isolation using guinea pigs and embryonated eggs. In:
"Legionnaires'"--the disease, the bacterium, and methodology. G.L. Jones and G.A. Hebert, ed. U.S. Department of HEW, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control.