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  • Creating a shared epidemiologic vocabulary: lessons from the former Soviet Union

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    As part of the United States Department of Defense strategy to counter biological threats, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s biological threat reduction program is enhancing the capabilities of countries in the former Soviet Union… read more
    … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 34 of the FSU, such as Armenian, Azeri, … Health Threats Journal A Grigoryan et al. 2011, 4:s84 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 35 …
  • Data quality in federated disease surveillance: using variability as an indicator of quality

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    Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense that hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies are the source of most surveillance data. Although a health department may request or mandate that these… read more
    … N Um et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6060 the mean of the BP. We also … Emerging Health Threats Journal N Um et al. 2011, 4:s55 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6161 …
  • Design and development of a standards-based model to publish public health reporting criteria

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    State laws mandate clinicians and laboratories to report occurrences of reportable diseases to public health entities. For this purpose, a set of case-reporting specifications are published and maintained by public health departments… read more
    … C Staes et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 89 tions. We are exploring models to … Health Threats Journal C Staes et al. 2011, 4:s116 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 90 …
  • Forecasting high-priority surveillance regions: a socioeconomic model

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    It has been suggested that changes in various socioeconomic, environmental and biological factors have been drivers of emerging and reemerging infectious disease, although few have assessed these relationships on a global scale. … read more
    … E Chan et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 88 Conclusions Public health … Emerging Health Threats Journal E Chan et al. 2011, 4:s11 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 99 …
  • Generalized fast subset sums for Bayesian detection and visualization

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    The multivariate Bayesian scan statistic (MBSS) enables timely detection and characterization of emerging events by integrating multiple data streams. MBSS can model and differentiate between multiple event types: it uses Bayes’ Theorem to… read more
    … and Y Liu.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3939 into two streams of real-world … Health Threats Journal DB Neill and Y Liu. 2011, 4:s43 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 4040 …
  • Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance

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    Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications… read more
    … AM Fine et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 31 test nor treat) as if their scores … Health Threats Journal AM Fine et al. 2011, 4:s80 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 32 …
  • Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance

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    Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications, missed work… read more
    … AM Fine et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 31 test nor treat) as if their scores … Health Threats Journal AM Fine et al. 2011, 4:s80 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 32 …
  • Using laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities

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    Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a… read more
    … TM Luse et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 54 Acknowledgements This paper was … Health Threats Journal TM Luse et al. 2011, 4:s98 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 55 …