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Comparison of Air Passenger Travel Volume Data Sources for Biosurveillance
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The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) has the responsibility to integrate, analyze, and share the nation’s biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across public and private sectors. The integration of… read more -
Comparison of Exposure to Risk Factors for Giardiasis Among Endemic and Travel Cases
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Increasing immigration to Canada coupled with the increasing number of Canadians travelling domestically and abroad is expected to significantly impact the burden of illness due to enteropathogens, including Giardia, in Canada . When estimating… read more -
Correlation Between Influenza-Like Illness Reported by ILINet and NSSP, Kansas, 2014-2015
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Influenza is not a notifiable disease in Kansas; patient-level influenza data is not reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Kansas’ primary method of influenza surveillance is the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness… read more -
Utility of Outpatient Syndromic Data for Monitoring Influenza-like Illness
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The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) collects outpatient ILI data through North Dakota Influenza-like Illness Network (ND ILINet), providing situational awareness regarding the percent of visits for ILI at sentinel sites across the state.… read more -
Value of evidence from syndromic surveillance with delayed reporting
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Taking into account reporting delays in surveillance systems is not methodologically trivial. Consequently, most use the date of the reception of data, rather than the (often unknown) date of the health event itself. The main drawback of this… read more -
What do we know about the behavior of animal rabies in Chile through the last years?
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease caused by an RNA virus from the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. Worldwide distributed, control of rabies has been considered to be particularly amenable to a “One Health” strategy (1). In Chile, rabies was… read more -
Enhancing EpiCenter Data Quality Analytics with R
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The EpiCenter syndromic surveillance platform currently uses Java libraries for time series analysis. Expanding the data quality capabilities of EpiCenter requires new analysis methods. While the Java ecosystem has a number of resources for general… read more -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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The mission of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH; Arizona) is to protect and promote the health and well-being of its residents and visitors. Surveillance efforts allow epidemiologists to quantify and characterize public health… read more