Automatic outbreak detection algorithm versus electronic reporting system

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1610-1612

  Straetemans, Masja ^a,b   Altmann, Doris ^a   Eckmanns, Tim ^a   Krause, Gérard ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOROVIRUS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 54249124013     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1410.071354     Document Type: Article

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