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Enhanced Aedes spp. surveillance across jurisdictions in Arizona’s border region
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As part of a statewide effort to enhance surveillance for Aedes spp.mosquitoes the Office of Border Health (OBH) took the lead inproviding technical assistance on surveillance in counties bordering Mexico. In 2016, OBH sought ways to enhance… read more -
Enhanced Mosquito Surveillance for Aedes spp. in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
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Since 2003 some Arizona counties have followed mosquito surveillance protocols to trap the West Nile Virus vector, Culex spp., using CO2 traps. Despite low sensitivity of these traps to detect Aedes spp., one out of seven CO2 traps deployed… read more -
Enhancing Respiratory Infection Surveillance on the US/Mexico Border- Arizona BIDS Program Sentinel Surveillance Data
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This project was established through the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) program in Arizona (AZ) to monitor infecting respiratory pathogens among hospitalized patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) in the AZ border… read more -
Enhanced Surveillance for Aedes Mosquitoes in the Arizona Border Region
Content Type: Case Study
In 2014, a dengue outbreak affected northern Mexico and travel-associated dengue cases increased in southern Arizona. While Arizona has not detected a local dengue case, local transmission occurred in Nogales, Sonora, sister city of Nogales, Arizona… read more -
Arizona Sonora Binational Cases: five years of surveillance
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Infectious diseases can spread across borders. The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) collects information on binational infectious disease cases and shares it with Mexico. Infectious disease investigation in Arizona is enhanced by using… read more