An overview of internet biosurveillance

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1006-1013

  Hartley, D M ^a,b   Nelson, N P ^b   Arthur, R R ^c   Barboza, P ^d   Collier, N ^e,f   Lightfoot, N ^g   Linge, J P ^h   van der Goot, E ^h   Mawudeku, A ⁱ   Madoff, L C ^j   Vaillant, L ^d   Walters, R ^k   Yangarber, R ^l   Mantero, J ^m   Corley, C D ^k   Brownstein, J S ⁿ  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d French Institute for Public Health Surveillance   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^f EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g MScPH student intern Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance   (France)

^h JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

ⁱ PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^k PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^m EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

ⁿ BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

Digital disease detection; Digital epidemiology; Electronic surveillance; Epidemic intelligence; Event based surveillance; Internet based surveillance; Participatory epidemiology; Web based text mining

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; AWARENESS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DECISION TREE; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TOURISM; TRAVEL;

DIGITAL DISEASE DETECTION; DIGITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; EVENT-BASED SURVEILLANCE; INTERNET-BASED SURVEILLANCE; PARTICIPATORY EPIDEMIOLOGY; WEB-BASED TEXT MINING;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INTERNET;

EID: 84885453854     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12273     Document Type: Review

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