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Developing Semantically Interoperable PH Emergency Preparedness Data Exchange
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Effective prevention, detection, and rapid response to PH emergencies rely on sufficient and timely delivered information. PH EOC data flows are based on critical information requirements, addressing needs of EOC staff for timely delivered… read more -
Using a One Health Aapproach to Build an Integrated Surveillance Data System
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Environmental Public Health Zoonotic Disease surveillance includes veternary, environmental, and vector data. Surveillance systems within each sector may appear disparate from each other, although they are actually complimentaly and closely allied.… read more -
Factors associated with hospitalization due to streptococcal infection in Houston, Texas 2015-2016
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Different studies have shown that Streptococcal infections in adults are more common among older age, blacks, and underlying chronic medical conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney diseases. In specific, other studies have demonstrated… read more -
Assessing scarlet fever re-emergence from notifiable disease surveillance in Hong Kong
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Scarlet fever is a notifiable disease in Hong Kong for over 40 years. There was relatively low activity of scarlet fever until an outbreak in mid-2011 which resulted in two deaths and more than 1,500 cases. Scarlet fever incidence remained elevated… read more -
What value can Google search data add to existing syndromic surveillance systems?
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Globally, there have been various studies assessing trends in Google search terms in the context of public health surveillance1. However, there has been a predominant focus on individual health outcomes such as influenza, with limited evidence on… read more -
Analysing Trends of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)and Dengue cases in Hong Kong
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a severe paralytic neuropathy associated with virus infections such as Zika virus and Chikungunya virus. There were also case reports of dengue fever preceding GBS. With the aim to understand the mechanisms of GBS… read more -
Genotyping of pathogenic leptospira by Multiple Locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA)
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Leptospirosis (ictherohemoglobinuria, Leptospirosis biliousness) is a natural focal and zoonotic infectious disease dangerous for humans and farm animals. It is important to identify specific leptospira strains isolated from rodents or sick and… read more -
Leveraging City Data to Understand the Opioid Epidemic in Philadelphia
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Philadelphia is in the midst of a drug epidemic that killed 702 Philadelphians in 2015, 907 in 2016, and is on trajectory to kill 1,200 in 2017. Opioids are involved in the majority of fatal overdoses, contributing to 80% of overdose deaths in 2016… read more