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Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan
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Electronic laboratory-based surveillance can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity and response time of traditional infectious disease surveillance. Under the project “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study”, we… read more… Software for the spatial and time-scan statistics. http://www.satscan.org, 2006. [2] Rossi A, Tokumoto M, Galas M, … and analysis of microbiology laboratory results. http://www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware, 2007. Further … John Stelling, jstelling@rics.bwh.harvard.edu www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware Advances in … -
A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… useful information for syndromic surveillance. Cor- relation with confirmed outbreaks will be necessary to … -
Multi-Syndrome Analysis of Time Series: A New Concept for Outbreak Investigation
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Temporal anomaly detection is a key component of real time surveillance. Today, despite the abundance of temporal information on multiple syndromes, multivariate investigation of temporal anomalies remains under-explored. Traditionally, an outbreak… read more… Components Analysis (PCA) re- moves redundancy, or co-linearity, in the data while it preserves the correlation …