Electronic event-based surveillance for monitoring dengue, Latin America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1147-1150

  Hoen, Anne G ^a,b,e   Keller, Mikaela ^c,d   Verma, Aman D ^e   Buckeridge, David L ^e,f   Brownstein, John S ^a,b,e  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Agence de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; ONLINE MONITORING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LATIN AMERICA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 84862556144     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.120055     Document Type: Article

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