Tweeting fever: Can twitter be used to monitor the incidence of dengue-like illness in the Philippines?

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 714-725

  Coberly, Jacqueline S ^a   Fink, Clayton R ^a   Elbert, Yevgeniy ^a   Yoon, In Kyu ^b   Velasco, John Mark ^a   Tomayao, Agnes D ^a   Roque Jr , Vito ^c   Tayag, Enrique ^c   Macasocol, Durinda R ^a   Lewis, Sheri H ^d  

^a APL ^*  (Philippines)

^b Department of Virology US Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences   (United States)

^c Public Health Surveillance Informatics Division of the National Epidemiology Center   (Philippines)

^d Global Health Surveillance Asymmetric Operations Sector   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; NEW CASE; PHILIPPINES; PILOT STUDIES; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

MONITORING;

EID: 84940238998     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: 19300530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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