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US Destinations of Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees with Suspect TB, 2009-2010
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Immigrants and refugees are required to undergo tuberculosis (TB) screening before entering the United States (US)(1). Nearly 700 overseas panel physicians designated by the US Department of State, perform these screenings (2). Over 450,000 new… read more -
Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
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A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more -
Digital Surveillance of the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Identifying Hot-spots for Emerging Zoonoses
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The illegal wildlife trade is a multi-faceted, clandestine industry that has led to the disruption of fragile ecosystems, facilitated the spread of pathogens, and has led to the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, domestic animals, and… 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 -
Building the Road to a Regional Zoonoses Strategy: a Survey of Zoonoses Programs in the Americas
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Zoonoses account for over 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans. In recent years, global public health security has been threatened by zoonotic disease emergence as exemplified by outbreaks of H5N1 and H1N1 influenza, SARS, and most recently… 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