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Influenza Sentinel Surveillance in Rwanda, 2008–2010 [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012
In 2008, Rwanda established an influenza sentinel surveillance (ISS) system to describe the epidemiology of influenza and monitor for the emergence of novel influenza A viruses. We report surveillance results from August 2008 to July 2010.We conducted ISS by monitoring patients with influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection ...
Thierry, Nyatanyi, Richard, Nkunda, Joseph, Rukelibuga, Rakhee, Palekar, Marie Aimée, Muhimpundu, Adeline, Kabeja, Alice, Kabanda, David, Lowrance, Stefano, Tempia, Jean Baptiste, Koama, David, McAlister, Odette, Mukabayire, Justin, Wane, Pratima, Raghunathan, Mark, Katz, Corine, Karema   +15 more
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Sentinel Surveillance for Influenza in Senegal, 1996–2009 [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012
Data on influenza in tropical and resource-limited countries are scarce. In this study we present results from 14 years of influenza surveillance in Senegal, one of the few tropical countries in Africa from which longitudinal data are available.From 1996 to 2009, we collected respiratory specimens from outpatients presenting with influenza-like illness
Mbayame Ndiaye, Niang, Annick, Dosseh, Kader, Ndiaye, Monique, Sagna, Victoria, Gregory, Deborah, Goudiaby, Alan, Hay, Ousmane M, Diop   +7 more
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Defining travel-associated cases of enteric fever

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2014
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, Lorraine Lighton, Jane Jones   +2 more
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Optimizing Influenza Sentinel Surveillance at the State Level [PDF]

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2009
Influenza-like illness data are collected via an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state level. Because participation is voluntary, locations of the sentinel providers may not reflect optimal geographic placement. The purpose of this study was to determine the "best" locations for sentinel providers in Iowa by using a maximal ...
Philip M, Polgreen, Zunqui, Chen, Alberto M, Segre, Meghan L, Harris, Michael A, Pentella, Gerard, Rushton   +5 more
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Réunion, a sentinel territory for influenza surveillance in Europe [PDF]

Eurosurveillance, 2012
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L, Filleul, E, Brottet, Ba, Gauzere, A, Winer, D, Vandroux, A, Michault, Mc, Jaffar-Bandjee, S, Larrieu   +7 more
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Implementation of a sentinel surveillance system for influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) in the country of Georgia, 2015-2016

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
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, Abram L. Wagner, Ann Machablishvili, Irakli Karseladze, Olgha Tarkhan-Mouravi, Khatuna Zakhashvili, Paata Imnadze, Matthew L. Boulton   +7 more
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Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
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, Kathryn S Teates, Allyson Abrams, Ken Kleinman, Martin Kulldorff, Robert Pinner, Robert Harmon, Stanley Wang, Richard Platt   +8 more
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Sentinel versus population-based surveillance of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine effectiveness

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012
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, Elizabeth R Zell, Stephanie Schrag, Adam L Cohen   +3 more
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Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission with a Novel Outpatient Sentinel Surveillance System in Chicago, Illinois, USA

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose: Public health indicators typically used for monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic can be biased or lag behind changing community transmission patterns.
R. Richardson, P. Arevalo, E. Jorgensen, M. Pacilli, S. Lightner, S. Cobey, J. Gerardin   +6 more
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Water buffalo as sentinel animals for schistosomiasis surveillance

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Introduction About 75% of human pathogens are zoonotic, meaning that they are communicated from animals to humans. (1) Schistosomiasis is a zoonotic disease with a complex transmission cycle involving aquatic snails and least 40 species of mammals, which serve as reservoir hosts.
Jose Ma M Angeles, Lydia R Leonardo, Yasuyuki Goto, Masashi Kirinoki, Elena A Villacorte, Hassan Hakimi, Kharleezelle J Moendeg, Seungyeon Lee, Pilarita T Rivera, Noboru Inoue, Yuichi Chigusa, Shin-ichiro Kawazu   +11 more
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