Electronic surveillance of outbreaks in Lebanon
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Electronic surveillance of outbreaks in Lebanon
BACKGROUND This paper describes and assesses the electronic surveillance of outbreaks based on the early warning for four endemic diseases - typhoid fever, amebic dysentery, viral hepatitis A and brucellosis - in Lebanon, for the first 28 weeks of 2005 and first 26 weeks of 2007. METHODS The electronic early warning system is based on the mandatory notification of 37 targeted diseases. The fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Proceedings
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1753-6561
DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-2-s3-s2