Automated biosurveillance data from England and Wales, 1991-2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-42

  Enki, Doyo G ^a   Noufaily, Angela ^a   Garthwaite, Paul H ^a   Andrews, Nick J ^b   Charlett, André ^b   Lane, Chris ^b   Paddy Farrington, C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FUNGI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOSES; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; WALES;

EID: 84871624977     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1901.120493     Document Type: Article

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