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A fully integrated real-time detection, diagnosis, and control of community diarrheal disease clusters and outbreaks (the INTEGRATE project): protocol for an enhanced surveillance system
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BACKGROUND: Diarrheal disease, which affects 1 in 4 people in the United Kingdom annually, is the most common cause of outbreaks in community and health care settings. Traditional surveillance methods tend to detect point-source outbreaks of diarrhea and vomiting; they are less effective at identifying low-level and intermittent food supply contamination. Furthermore, it can take up to 9 weeks for infections to be confirmed, reducing slow-burn outbreak recognition, potentially impacting hundr...
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- 10.2196/13941
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- 8
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- 9
- Article number:
- e13941
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-07
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- 2019-07-16
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1929-0748
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31573952
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English
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- © Kirsty Marie McIntyre, Frederick J Bolton, Rob M Christley, Paul Cleary, Elizabeth Deja, Ann E Durie, Peter J Diggle, Dyfrig A Hughes, Simon de Lusignan, Lois Orton, Alan D Radford, Alex J Elliot, Gillian E Smith, Darlene A Snape, Debbi Stanistreet, Roberto Vivancos, Craig Winstanley, Sarah J O’Brien. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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