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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 -
On to Meaningful Use Stage 2: Refining Public Health Readiness Guidelines
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In the U.S., federal programs are accelerating the meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology and encouraging greater standardization in how governmental public health agencies (PHAs) establish surveillance data partnerships with… read more -
OpenESSENCE: Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS
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OpenMRS has global presence as an open source web based medical record system (MRS). It is built on an extensible, modular framework that allows the user to create a MRS that is as simple or complex as needed. OE is a multi-user network accessible… read more -
ORBiT Ã The Oak Ridge Biosurveillance Toolkit
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ORBiT is implemented as a distributed analytic platform consisting of a software stack atop of Hadoop and makes use of Titan, a distributed graph database as a backend for data storage. Data from each of the traditional and non-traditional sources… read more -
Outcomes of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (allo-SCT) Recipients in the Era of Newer Antifungal Agents
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Fungal infections (FI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients undergoing allo-SCT. The newer anti-fungal agents, the echinocandins and extended spectrum azoles, have offered alternatives to Amphotericin B and fluconazole. Data… read more -
Over-the-counter Medication Sales Surveillance for Early Detection of Respiratory Epidemics in Rural China
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Respiratory infectious diseases are the most common diseases reported in rural China. Studies have suggested that the OTC retail sale data could be used to detect early outbreak (1, 2). However, few researches have performed to identify whether OTC… read more -
Overview of the BioSense 2.0 System Architecture
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BioSense 2.0 protects the health of the American people by providing timely insight into the health of communities, regions, and the nation by offering a variety of features to improve data collection, standardization, storage, analysis, and… read more