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The Utility of Space-Time Surveillance for Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a global health epidemic in recent years. Although several researchers have examined the use of space-time surveillance to detect TB clusters, they have not used genetic information to… read more… Space-time surveillance for TB in an urban area may not be better than random at detecting genetic clus- … -
Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
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Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… For wait-and-see individuals, even a short postponement may well have become nonvaccination (3). These findings … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
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A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more… while being Canadian-born (OD 2.87, 95% CI 1.94; 4.26) and being Haitian-born (OD 3.09, 95% CI 1.99; 4.78) were … of source and secondary cases in the available data may have limited performance. However, the model can be an … tuberculosis. Respirology. 2004;9:313�9. 2. Fok A, Numata Y, Schulzer M, FitzGerald MJ. Risk factors for clustering of …