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Mapping Laboratory Reports to Illinois’ Extensively Drug-Resistant Organism Registry
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CRE are drug-resistant bacteria that have a mortality rate of up to 50% in those infected. Several clusters of CRE have been detected in Illinois, often in long-term acute care hospitals. In response, Illinois created the XDRO registry, a mandatory… read more -
Quality of Data Used for Syndromic Surveillance
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Nearly all of the myriad activities (or use cases) in clinical and public health (e.g., patient care, surveillance, community health assessment, policy) involve generating, collecting, storing, analyzing, or sharing data about individual patients or… read more -
MERS PUI Surveillance and Restrospective Identification in ESSENCE-FL, 2013-2015
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Human MERS-CoV was first reported in September 2012. Globally, all reported cases have been linked through travel to or residence in the Arabian Peninsula with the exception of cases associated with an outbreak involving multiple health care… read more -
Modeling spatial and temporal variability by Bayesian multilevel model
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The early detection of outbreaks of diseases is one of the most challenging objectives of epidemiological surveillance systems. In order to achieve this goal, the primary foundation is using those big surveillance data for understanding and… read more -
Monitoring child mental health related emergency department visits in New York City
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From 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide. During this period, mental health-related hospitalizations among NYC children increased nearly 23%. To estimate mental health-… read more -
Monitoring for Local Transmission of Zika Virus using Emergency Department Data
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The first travel-associated cases of Zika virus infection in New York City (NYC) were identified in January 2016. Local transmission of Zika virus from imported cases is possible due to presence of Aedes albopictus mosquitos. Timely detection of… read more -
Monitoring of Brucellosis in Agricultural Animals in Ukraine During 2013-2015
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Brucellosis is one of the most widespread zoonosis in the world. Only 17 countries informed WHO that their territory is free from brucellosis. About 500 thousand cases of brucellosis in humans are registered in the world each year. The problem of… read more -
Monitoring the 2016 LA County Sand Fire with Multiple Early Detection Systems
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On July 22, 2016, the Sand Fire began burning in the Santa Clarita Valley of Los Angeles County (LAC), CA. This urban-adjacent wildfire breached the city limits of Santa Clarita (population 180,000). Fueled by record heat and an ongoing exceptional… read more