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Promoting and supporting wildlife surveillance for zoonotic pathogens in Rwanda
Content Type: Case Study
Rwanda government's leadership in embracing One health approach to mitigate and control infectious diseases can be a huge lesson to other developing countries to do the same with astounding results. Rwanda is a potential country for emerging… read more… Veterinary Project/Gorilla Doctors COUNTRY: Rwanda Email: jnziza@gorilladoctors.org WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK … -
First report on MRSA recovered from wild boars in the north of Portugal
Content Type: Case Study
Antibiotic resistance is an emerging public health concern and the scientific community recognizes the need to evaluate its epidemiology. Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a key to this problem. Often found in the natural flora of the skin, nose and… read more… Animal and Veterinary Sciences (CECAV) COUNTRY: Portugal Email: ppoeta@utad.pt WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? __ _ … -
Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee
Content Type: Webinar
Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more… Submitter name: Jurisdiction or affiliation: Phone: Email: Co-submitters and affiliations: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION … -
World Trade Center Responders Fatality Investigation Program - Methodologic Issues
Content Type: Webinar
Presenter Kitty H. Gelberg, PhD, MPH, Chief, Epidemiology & Surveillance Section, Assistant Director, Bureau of Occupational Health, New York State Department of Health Date and Time… read more… • Medical records from pertinent post-9/11/01 clinical visits, employee health exams, and doctor visits up to 2 years prior to 9/11/01 • Autopsy results … -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more… syndromes having average daily counts of 2, 10, 35 and 50 visits per day. We then simulated epidemics by creating all … -
GraphScan: Detection and Analysis of Free-Form Spatio-Temporal Patterns
Content Type: Abstract
By capturing the spatio-temporal organization of the data using a graph, GraphScan avoids the challenges associated with trying to “fit” incoming data into moving windows of predefined shapes and sizes. Whereas the popular space-time permutation… read more… to the level of “activity” (e.g., count of GI-related ED visits) for the corresponding region and time period. … -
Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts
Content Type: Abstract
A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more… Division. The RODS-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 … -
A Nonparametric Scan Statistic for Multivariate Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
We present a new method for multivariate outbreak detection, the ìnonparametric scan statisticî (NPSS). NPSS enables fast and accurate detection of emerging space-time clusters using multiple disparate data streams, including nontraditional data… read more… into five Allegheny County datasets: respiratory ED visits, three streams of OTC data (cough/cold, antifever, …