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  • A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain

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    Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys… read more
    … the representativeness of our surveillance efforts); iii) back-calculation methods integrating all surveillance … Similarly, frequency estimates from capture-recapture and back-calculation methods informed the parameters of …
  • Predicting Probabilities of Flu Vaccination and Commuting Methods Having Elevated Flu Transmission Probabilities in New York City

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    Aerial transmission and direct contact are important factors for flu. Consequently, close contact with large groups of people, such as during mass transit, present opportunities for transmission. One protective method that… read more
    … The good- ness-of-fit test showed no evidence of a lack of fit (p=0.9351), and the max-rescaled R-square is … The goodness-of-fit test failed to produce evidence of a lack of fit (p= 0.4132), and the max-rescaled R-square is …
  • Use of Laboratory Drug Sensitivity Tests and Prescription Practices in Malawi

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    Of the 13 million people in Malawi1 85% are rural and the country has high burden of under-five morbidity and mortality due to preventable infectious diseases. Respiratory, febrile and diarrhea diseases are the top 3 morbidity and mortality… read more
    … which should inform prescription practices. There is lack of demand and reliance on drug sensitivity tests by the prescribing clinician. Clinicians sited the lack of laboratory capacity and also the delays that go with …
  • Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions

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    Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more
    … to medical staff and one relative, as well as a severe lack of biosafety personal protective and laboratory … effectiveness of disease management in the region: (1) a lack of government leadership and account- ability, (2) poor …
  • Using Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan?

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    OBJECTIVE A “whole-system facsimile” recreates a complex automated biosurveillance system running prospectively on real historical datasets. We systematized this approach to compare the performance of otherwise… read more
    … alarms, the daily sta- tistics were performed on paired back- ground+injection vs. background-only time series. For …
  • North Dakota Electronic Animal Health Surveillance System

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    The North Dakota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NDVDL) manages animal disease laboratory tests, results and diagnostic services using the software VetStar Animal Disease Diagnostic System (VADDS) (Advanced Technology Corporation, Ramsey, NJ). The… read more
    … surveillance data sources used at the NDDoH. Due to lack of a functioning national animal identification …
  • Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software

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    Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the… read more
    … feedback should be used to refine the software. Feed- back can be achieved through different methods in- cluding …
  • STL and Local Regression for Modeling Disease Surveillance Counts

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    Numerous methods have been applied to the problem of modeling temporal properties of disease surveillance data; the ESSENCE system contains a widely used approach (1). STL (2) is a flexible, wellproven method for temporal… read more
    … a peak on Mon., a drop through about Fri. then a rise back to a Sun. peak about as big as Mon. No sig- nificant …