What’s the Buzz About Arboviral Disease Syndromic Surveillance?
Author(s) -
Jenna Iberg Johnson,
Christine Scott-Waldron
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
online journal of public health informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-2579
DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6476
Subject(s) - chikungunya , medicine , disease surveillance , public health , complaint , marketing buzz , epidemiology , medical emergency , arbovirus , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , virology , outbreak , computer science , pathology , virus , political science , world wide web , law
In response to local transmission of chikungunya virus in the Caribbean and the first travel-associated case in Louisiana in May of 2014, the Louisiana Office of Public Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section conducted an arboviral syndromic surveillance study to validate arboviral syndromes and evaluate the utility and practicality of detecting and monitoring arboviral disease using emergency department chief complaint, admit reason and diagnosis text data.
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