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PAN-RESPIRATORY DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was established by WHO in 1952 to conduct surveillance for influenza to inform strain selection for seasonal vaccines and to monitor for influenza pandemics.
Bill Davis
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Routine and sentinel surveillance methods
Surveillance, whether active or passive, is a dynamic process. It is fundamental to public health decision-making and subsequent action. Choice of diseases for surveillance, development of methods, ongoing systematic evaluation and dissemination to those who need to know, are each components which require expert, knowledgeable attention.
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Dengue Sentinel Surveillance System in Countries Without Efficient Local Epidemiological Surveillance [PDF]
The surveillance of travel‐acquired dengue infections in French military personnel1 or others could be strengthened through an inclusion of a local laboratory (civilian or military)‐based surveillance for dengue‐associated laboratory parameters. The laboratory personnel could be on the lookout for any …
Subhash C, Arya, Nirmala, Agarwal
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Defining travel-associated cases of enteric fever
Summary: There is no internationally recognized case-definition for travel-associated enteric fever in non-endemic countries. This study describes the patterns of case reporting between 2007 and 2011 as travel-associated or not from the surveillance data
Joanne Freedman +2 more
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Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness. [PDF]
BackgroundSurveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza, including pandemic influenza. Nontraditional sources of data for
W Katherine Yih +8 more
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Mapping of Aedes albopictus abundance at a local scale in Italy [PDF]
Given the growing risk of arbovirus outbreaks in Europe, there is a clear need to better describe the distribution of invasive mosquito species such as Aedes albopictus. Current challenges consist in simulating Ae. albopictus abundance, rather than its
Arnoldi, Daniele +10 more
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Objectives: Due to reports of substandard influenza preparedness, the country of Georgia developed two influenza surveillance systems. This paper describes these surveillance systems in their capacity to detect influenza.
Giorgi Chakhunashvili +7 more
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Three faces of node importance in network epidemiology: Exact results for small graphs
We investigate three aspects of the importance of nodes with respect to Susceptible-Infectious-Removed (SIR) disease dynamics: influence maximization (the expected outbreak size given a set of seed nodes), the effect of vaccination (how much deleting ...
Holme, Petter
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Sentinel Surveillance: an option for surveillance of infectious intestinal disease
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Gauci, C. +8 more
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Sentinel versus population-based surveillance of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine effectiveness
OBJECTIVE: To compare sentinel and population-based surveillance of the effect of seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), introduced in 2000, on the hospitalization of children aged under 5 years with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in ...
Lee M Hampton +3 more
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