Syndromic surveillance: Adapting innovations to developing settings

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 0367-0372

  Chretien, Jean Paul ^a   Burkom, Howard S ^b   Sedyaningsih, Endang R ^c   Larasati, Ria P ^d   Lescano, Andres G ^e   Mundaca, Carmen C ^e   Blazes, David L ^e   Munayco, Cesar V ^f   Coberly, Jacqueline S ^b   Ashar, Raj J ^b   Lewis, Sheri H ^b  

^a Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Indonesia)

^d US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^e California   (Peru)

^f MINISTERIO DE SALUD   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MONITORING; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PERU; STATISTICS; SYNDROME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; PERU; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SYNDROME;

EID: 41549145784     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050072     Document Type: Review

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