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What Is the True Shape of a Disease Cluster? The Multi-Objective Genetic Scan
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Irregularly shaped spatial disease clusters occur commonly in epidemiological studies, but their geographic delineation is poorly defined. Most current spatial scan software usually displays only one of the many possible cluster solutions with… read more -
What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?
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One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more -
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 -
NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview
Content Type: Webinar
Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more -
Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data
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While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more -
Risk Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks Associated with Attack Rate and Genogroup
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Noroviruses are the single most common cause of epidemic, non-bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. NoVs cause an estimated 68-80% of gastroenteritis outbreaks in industrialized countries and possibly more in developing countries. … read more -
Scalable Detection of Irregular Disease Clusters Using Soft Compactness Constraints
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic F(S) over a large set of spatial regions, typically constrained by shape. The fast localized scan [2] enables scalable… read more -
Pandemic H1N1-Related ICU Rates According to Race/Ethnic Groups in Massachusetts
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Unpublished statewide 2009 H1N1 epidemiological data suggests that rates of lab-confirmed H1N1-related hospitalization were three to four times higher in Black and Hispanic populations compared to White, non-Hispanic populations (Alfred DeMaria,… read more