Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting
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Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting
BACKGROUND Infectious disease surveillance has recently seen many changes including rapid growth of informal surveillance, acting both as competitor and a facilitator to traditional surveillance, as well as the implementation of the revised International Health Regulations. The present study aims to compare outbreak reporting by formal and informal sources given such changes in the field. MET...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0885-0