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Alcohol-Related ED Visits and Ohio State Football: Putting the O-H in ETOH
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According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), binge drinking causes over half of the 88,000 excessive alcohol use deaths and costs approximately $149 billion dollars annually in the United States. Additionally, excessive alcohol use can… read moreAn Evaluation of the Key Indicator Based Surveillance System for International Health Regulations (IHR) -2005 Core Capacity Requirements in India
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The IDSP is the key indicator based surveillance system in the country to fulfill the core surveillance and response functions requirement under the IHRâ2005. Periodic reviews of the IDSP in the country have shown that it has been ineffective in… read moreAnalytic Biosurveillance Methods for Resource-Limited Settings
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Biosurveillance in resource-limited settings is essential because of both enhanced risk of diseases rarely seen elsewhere (e.g. cholera) and pandemic threats (e.g. avian influenza). However, access to care and laboratory test capability are… read moreAntibiotic Sensitivity and Clinical Outcome for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
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Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin/oxacillin. The high incidence of resistance to most commonly used antibiotics including carbapenems and cephalosporins among strains of… read moreAntibiotic Susceptibility of Salmonellosis Pathogens
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It is increasingly critical to test antibiotics on local bacterial strains, due to the continuously growing resistance of microflora to extensively administered antibacterial medications. For this study, we examined the development of antimicrobial… read moreApplication of a Bayesian Spatiotemporal Surveillance Method to NYC Syndromic Data
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As technology advances, the implementation of statistically and computationally intensive methods to detect unusual clusters of illness becomes increasingly feasible at the state and local level [2]. Bayesian methods allow for the incorporation of… read moreApplication of EWMA and CUSUM models to School Absenteeism Surveillance for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Rural China
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Absenteeism has great advantages in promoting the early detection of epidemics. School absenteeism surveillance could timely detect the aggregations of absentees in time and space, so as to provide effective early warning and prevention and control… read moreArizona Review of Reported Binational Cases with Mexico
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Reporting of binational cases has been enacted in Arizona systematically since 2007. Investigating binational cases and providing binational counterparts with timely information can help to enact interventions, as well as strengthens communication… read more