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WHONET and BacLink: Software Tools for Laboratory-Based Surveillance of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance
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Clinical and public health microbiology laboratories of the world are a rich, underutilized resource in monitoring the changing epidemiology of microbial populations worldwide. Two areas of public health importance in which effective use of relevant… read more… trends in S. aureus isolations. The upper line depicts all patients with S. aureus; the lower line depicts a … and management of antimicrobial resistance. Clin Infect Dis 2001; 33 (suppl 2). [2] Kulldorf M. and Information … -
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… School, 3Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbrán”, 4Dirección Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud, Argentina OBJECTIVE This paper describes the … comprises 70 microbiology laboratories nationwide [2], all of which enter their data into the widely used WHONET …