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Seasonal Patterns of Respiratory Diseases: a Proxy for Influenza?
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One of the most important goals of disease surveillance is to identify the "what" and "when" of an epidemic. Influenza surveillance is made difficult by inconsistent laboratory testing, deficiencies in testing techniques, and coding… read more… that respiratory diseases other than influenza may serve as a useful proxy for this infection in pediatric … 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= … and adults. Further, separate diagnostic categories may be warranted based on age. Advances in Disease … -
Infectious Outbreaks and Time-Distributed Effects of Exposure
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The objective of this communication is to demonstrate an approach for modeling time-distributed effects of exposures to cases of infection which can be utilized in syndromic surveillance systems for characterizing, detecting, and forecasting a… read more… mean incubation period for food- or waterborne infections may vary from one or two days for some viral infections to … of observed cases following an episode of exposure may resemble a distribution of pathogen-specific incubation …