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Integrated West Nile Virus Surveillance in Harris County, Texas, 2003 to 2018
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West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading cause of autochthonous arboviral disease in the United States. The virus is primarily spread to people through the bite of infected Culex species of mosquitos. WNV was first identified in Harris County, Texas, in… read more -
Integrating Phylodynamic Techniques for Next-generation HIV Surveillance in Florida
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Reducing HIV incidence requires a precision public health approach encompassing prevention campaigns, targeted interventions, and next-generation surveillance through multimodal instruments, including sequencing. Molecular epidemiology methods (… read more -
Jurisdictional Etiquette Workgroup: An offshoot of a Syndromic Surveillance Consortium
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Syndromic data is shifting the way surveillance has been done traditionally. Most recently, surveillance has gone beyond city limits and county boundary lines. In southeast Texas, a regional consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in… read more -
Keyword Surveillance and the Development of Evolving Reporting in Austin, Texas
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Austin Public Health creates a variety of syndromic surveillance reports for events throughout the Austin, Texas metropolitan area. These events range from responses to major disasters such as the 2017 Hurricane Harvey sheltering to ongoing special… read more -
Knowledge of Malaria and Antimalarial Drug Dispensing Practices in Buea Community
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Lack of knowledge of rational use of antimalarial drugs among dispensers is a serious problem, especially in areas of intense transmission thus increasing the risk of resistance and adverse drug reactions. Objective: This study… read more -
Laboratory Based Of Surveillance For Leptospirosis in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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Leptospirosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases based on the severity of the clinical course, frequency of fatal outcome and long-term clinical consequences. In Ukraine, leptospirosis is one of the most widespread natural-focal… read more -
Large Scale Mobile Medical Service Programme: Data Insights for strengthening local surveillance
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India has an Integrated Disease Surveillance project that reports key communicable and infectious diseases at the district and sub-district level. However, recent reviews suggest structural and functional deficiencies resulting in poor data quality… read more -
Leaving a Mobile Footprint: Utilizing Data to Combat the 2017 - 2018 Influenza Season
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The 2017 - 2018 influenza season was classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as "high severity" across all age groups. Furthermore, CDC noted that this was the first year to be categorized as such, with the highest peak… read more