Enhancing Respiratory Infection Surveillance on the US/Mexico Border - Arizona BIDS Program Sentinel Surveillance Data

Enhancing Respiratory Infection Surveillance on the US/Mexico Border- Arizona BIDS Program Sentinel Surveillance Data

Enhancing Surveillance for Arboviral Infections in the Arizona Border Region

1Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Border Health, Tucson, AZ, USA; 2University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, USA; 3Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ, USA; 4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Dengue Branch, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 5Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Divi...

Evaluation of the novel respiratory virus surveillance program: Pediatric Early Warning Sentinel Surveillance (PEWSS).

OBJECTIVES Infections caused by respiratory viruses are associated with recurrent epidemics and widespread morbidity and mortality. Routine surveillance of these pathogens is necessary to determine virus activity, monitor for changes in circulating strains, and plan for public health preparedness. The Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas, Nevada, recruited five pediatric medical practic...

Human Sentinel Surveillance of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viral Pathogens in Border Areas of Western Cambodia

Little is known about circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses in remote populations along the Thai-Cambodia border in western Cambodia. We screened 586 outpatients (median age 5, range 1-77) presenting with influenza-like-illness (ILI) at 4 sentinel sites in western Cambodia between May 2010 and December 2012. Real-time reverse transcriptase (rRT) PCR for influenza was performed ...

[Experience of the sentinel surveillance on the border of Peru, Colombia and Brazil].

En toda investigación científica es imprescindible que los instrumentos reporten evidencias de validez y confiabilidad (4,5). El hecho de haber utilizado un instrumento sin evidencias sólidas de validez, afecta los resultados obtenidos. Algunos autores afirman que si un instrumento no cumple con los requerimientos metodológicos que la ciencia exige, las inferencias que se obtengan a partir de l...