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Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy: Canadian Population-Based Surveillance Study

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2013
To determine the incidence and neonatal morbidity and mortality of congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM) in Canada.The study has 2 phases. A 5-year prospective monthly surveillance of incident cases of CDM conducted via the Canadian Pediatric Surveillance Program, from March 1, 2005-February 28, 2010, and a 5-year cohort study of eligible incident cases,
Craig, Campbell, Simon, Levin, Victoria Mok, Siu, Shannon, Venance, Pierre, Jacob   +4 more
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Skin surveillance of a U.K. paediatric transplant population

British Journal of Dermatology, 2007
Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of skin cancer. Melanoma is less common than nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) although the relative proportion of melanoma among skin cancers has been shown to be higher in paediatric than adult recipients.
M A, Thomson, N R, Suggett, P G, Nightingale, D V, Milford, U, Baumann, D A, Kelly, C, Moss, V A, Hill   +7 more
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Public Health Surveillance Approaches in Oregonʼs Medicaid Population

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2002
The development of methods for public health surveillance in Medicaid populations is an important goal for public health practice. In Oregon, we developed approaches to case finding using claims and self-reported data obtained from the Medicaid beneficiary population.
Lynn M, Marshall, Richard N, Howard, Amy, Sullivan, Duyen L, Ngo, Jennifer A, Woodward, Melvin A, Kohn   +5 more
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La surveillance des populations de Rhopalocères

Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 1994
Apres un descriptif du "Butterfly monitoring" en Grande-Bretagne, les methodes de surveillance des populations de Lepidopteres sont decrites dans dix pays europeens : mises en place, structures, modalites de fonctionnement, resultats et perspectives.
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Population Health Surveillance Practice of Public Health Nurses

Public Health Nursing, 2009
ABSTRACT Objective: To report the population health surveillance functions of public health nurses and to describe factors that impede these functions.Design and Sample: An interpretive qualitative study was conducted in Public Health Service areas in Eastern Canada.
Donna, Meagher-Stewart, Nancy, Edwards, Megan, Aston, Linda, Young   +3 more
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Efficient surveillance of pig populations using oral fluids

Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2012
Currently virus surveillance in swine herds is constrained by the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of sampling methods. The objective of this study was to assess the value of using oral fluids collected by barn personnel as a method of surveillance based on PCR testing.
Alejandro, Ramirez, Chong, Wang, John R, Prickett, Roman, Pogranichniy, Kyoung-Jin, Yoon, Rodger, Main, John K, Johnson, Chris, Rademacher, Marlin, Hoogland, Patrick, Hoffmann, Anne, Kurtz, Ernest, Kurtz, Jeffrey, Zimmerman   +12 more
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POPULATION-BASED SURVEILLANCE OF TYPHOID FEVER IN EGYPT

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2006
Credible measures of disease incidence are necessary to guide typhoid fever control efforts. In Egypt, incidence estimates have been derived from hospital-based syndromic surveillance, which may not represent the population with typhoid fever. To determine the population-based incidence of typhoid fever in Fayoum Governorate (pop.
Padmini, Srikantiah, Fouad Y, Girgis, Stephen P, Luby, Gregory, Jennings, Momtaz Omar, Wasfy, John A, Crump, Robert M, Hoekstra, Mahmoud, Anwer, Frank J, Mahoney   +8 more
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Injury Surveillance in Special Populations

2011
The rapid technological advancements during the late 1980s and early 1990s provided public health professionals and researchers with newfound capabilities to conduct public health surveillance, including dramatic advancements in injury surveillance. Continued technological advancements have similarly increased the ability to conduct injury surveillance
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GESTATIONAL EXPOSURE TO RUBELLA VACCINEES.A POPULATION SURVEILLANCE STUDY

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1975
Over a two-year period an attempt was made to identify instances of transmission of rubella vaccine virus from rubella vaccinees to pregnant women in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee. Approximately 24,000 children were immunized in a mass campaign at the outset of the study.
WILLIAM F. FLEET, WILLIAM VAUGHN, LEWIS B. LEFKOWITZ, WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, CHARLES F. FEDERSPIEL, JULIETTE THOMPSON, DAVID T. KARZON   +6 more
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Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology: Carriage Studies

2003
Seven years after meningococci were first grown from patients with meningitis (1), Kiefer reported the isolation of the organisms from the nasopharynx of cases of meningococcal disease, and from their contacts (2). The importance of nasopharyngeal acquisition and carriage as a key step in the development of invasive meningococcal infection was rapidly ...
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