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Laboratory Based Of Surveillance For Leptospirosis in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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Leptospirosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases based on the severity of the clinical course, frequency of fatal outcome and long-term clinical consequences. In Ukraine, leptospirosis is one of the most widespread natural-focal… read more -
Phylogenetic analysis of Ukrainian Bacillus anthracis strains from various sources
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Anthrax is a widely spread zoonotic disease with natural transmissive cycle involving wildlife, livestock and humans [1]. It is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a highly pathogenic gram-positive, spore-producing bacterium, which poses a serious threat… read more -
PocketAID: The Pocket Atlas of Infectious Diseases Mobile Application
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There are a wide variety of available web-based apps, such as CDC's Epidemic Information Exchange, that provide infectious disease information and disease distribution [1]. Publicly available, online data can be used to inform a user of general… read more -
Potential Applications of Emerging Technologies in Disease Surveillance
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With the increase in the amount of public health data along with the growth of public health informatics, it is important for epidemiologists to understand the current trends in technology and the impact they may have in the field. Because it is… read more -
Power, Potential, and Pitfalls of Surveillance using Clinical Ancillary Services Data
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Military service members and their families work and live around the world where both endemic and emerging infectious diseases are common. Timely infectious disease surveillance helps to inform medical and policy decisions which ensure mission… read more -
Practical Story: Real People, Real Urine, Unreal UTI
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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB) is defined as the presence of bacteria in the urine of a patient without signs or symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI). It is one of the most common reasons for inappropriate antibiotic use in hospitalized… read more -
Precarious Data: Crack, Opioids, and Visualizing a Drug Abuse Epidemic
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In late 2015, two economists studying health-related data inadvertently discovered an alarming trend: death rates for middle-aged, white Americans were dramatically increasing from drug overdoses (Kolata, 2015), particularly opioids (CDC, 2015). The… read more -
Precision public health through clinic-based syndromic surveillance in communities
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In December 2009, TaiwanâÂÂs CDC stopped its sentinel physician surveillance system. Currently, infectious disease surveillance systems in Taiwan rely on not only the national notifiable disease surveillance system but also real-time outbreak and… read more