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Wastewater as an Indicator of Virus Circulation among Population of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
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The main reservoir of intestinal viruses in the environment is human feces and contaminated wastewater. Sewage contamination preconditions further contamination of surface water serving as a source of water supply [2,7,8]. High resistance to… read more -
What Can You Really Do with 35,000 Statistical Alerts a Week Anyways?
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The National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 statistical alerts each week. Local ESSENCE instances can generate as many as 5,000 statistical alerts each week. While some… read more -
Zika Pregnancy Surveillance: Transforming Data into Educational and Clinical Tools
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Little was known about the maternal and fetal/infant effects of Zika infection before the 2015 outbreak in the Americas, which made it challenging for public health practitioners and clinicians to care for pregnant women and infants exposed to Zika… read more -
ZooPhy: A bioinformatics pipeline for virus phylogeography and surveillance
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Sequence-informed surveillance is now recognized as an important extension to the monitoring of rapidly evolving pathogens [2]. This includes phylogeography, a field that studies the geographical lineages of species including viruses [3] by using… read more -
BioSense Platform Access & Management Center v1.5.1 Demo
Content Type: Webinar
This webinar includes a demonstration of and discussion regarding new features available in the Access & Management Center (AMC) v1.5.1. AMC v1.5.1 features include:- New streamlined workflow for NSSP BioSense Platform Data…
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Malaria burden through routing reporting: Relationship between incidence estimates
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Routine surveillance is an important global strategy for malaria control. However, there have been few studies comparing routine indicators of burden, including test positivity rate (TPR) and test-confirmed malaria case rates (CMCR), over spatial… read more -
Mapping PPS: A case study of story map journals for interactive health reporting
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How are interactive story map journals situated within the genre of interactive, health science reporting? How can reporting information to public audiences be theorized through traditional and contemporary understandings of new media genres in… read more -
Measuring trends in hepatitis C testing with commercial laboratory data
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Approximately 75% of people infected with chronic HCV were born between 1945 and 1965. Since 2012, the CDC has recommended… read more