New technologies for reporting real-time emergent infections

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1843-1851

  Chunara, Rumi ^a,b   Freifeld, Clark C ^b,c   Brownstein, John S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

crowd sourced; informal; real time; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; E-MAIL; EPIDEMIC; EVENT BASED SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INFECTION; INFESTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; TEXT MESSAGING; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84870540472     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012000923     Document Type: Article

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