Web-based participatory surveillance of infectious diseases: The Influenzanet participatory surveillance experience

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-21

  Paolotti, D ^a   Carnahan, A ^b   Colizza, V ^a,c,d   Eames, K ^e   Edmunds, J ^e   Gomes, G ^f   Koppeschaar, C ^g   Rehn, M ^b   Smallenburg, R ^g   Turbelin, C ^c,d   Van Noort, S ^f   Vespignani, A ^a,h,i  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^g Science in Action BV   (Netherlands)

^h NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europe; Infectious disease; Influenza like illness; Internet; Participatory surveillance

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; DENMARK; EMERGENCY CARE; EUROPE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; IRELAND; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EUROPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA-LIKE ILLNESS; INTERNET; PARTICIPATORY SURVEILLANCE;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84890683224     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12477     Document Type: Review

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