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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Productivity losses due to influenza and influenza-like illness in Switzerland: results of the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network in a non-pandemic era

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021
BACKGROUND: The incidence of influenza and influenza-like illnesses in Switzerland is generally high. Although related direct medical costs can be substantial, especially if hospitalisations occur, several studies suggested that indirect costs due to ...
Yuki Tomonaga, Kyra Denise Zens, Phung Lang, Rita Born, Matthias Schwenkglenks, and the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network   +5 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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Mr BMT Achieves Systemic Macrophage Replacement With Preservation of Tissue Homeostasis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microglia replacement by bone marrow transplantation (Mr BMT) enables systemic replacement of tissue‐resident macrophages. Despite persistent macrophage and tissue remodeling across multiple organs, core biological functions and innate immune responses remain preserved, supporting long‐term maintenance of organismal homeostasis and the therapeutic ...
Yufei Xu, Miaozhan Zou, Yunshang Bai, Yang He, Zhihao Jin, Baozhi Yang, Jinjin Du, Pei Ouyang, Yuanyuan Cai, Yuheng Zhang, Bingying Du, Chengcheng Ge, Jian‐an Gong, Xiaoyu Li, Yuanyi Zheng, Jing Ding, Bo Peng, Yanxia Rao   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the representativeness of a sentinel surveillance site for campylobacteriosis

Epidemiology and Infection, 2014
SUMMARYIt is important to assess the suitability of sentinel sites for human disease; however, there have been few publications documenting the process of formal evaluation. We describe an approach to examining the representativeness of a single sentinel site employed for campylobacteriosis surveillance and source attribution, utilizing a selection of ...
C F, Bolwell, B J, Gilpin, D, Campbell, N P, French   +3 more
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Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in a Sentinel Surveillance Population [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
We conducted a population-based study to assess demographic and risk-factor correlates for the most frequently occurring Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes from tuberculosis (TB) patients. The study included all incident, culture-positive TB patients from seven sentinel surveillance sites in the United States from 1996 to 2000. M.
Barbara A. Ellis, Jack T. Crawford, Christopher R. Braden, Scott J. N. McNabb, Marisa Moore, Steve Kammerer   +5 more
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