Evaluation of syndromic surveillance in the Netherlands: its added value and recommendations for implementation

Wijngaard, Cees C. van den; Pelt, Wilfrid van; Nagelkerke, Nicolaas; Kretzschmar, Mirjam

doi:10.2807/ese.16.09.19806-en

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“…The system also identifies diseases that are not being monitored, which may be new or re-emerging [24] . The primary results of a retrospective analysis by Wijngaard et al in 2010, based on the Dutch Healthcare register's symptom data, showed that among three syndromes, respiratory syndromes were the most closely associated with laboratory pathogen counts, with respiratory syndromes being 0-5 weeks ahead of laboratory influenza virus counts, indicating more timely and sensitive syndromic surveillance; on the other hand, gastrointestinal syndrome counts were 1-2 weeks ahead of laboratory rotavirus counts, while 62% of variants reported in neurological syndromes were caused by known viruses, suggesting that a proportion of unknown viruses were causing meningitis [25] . In 2009, Chinese academics conducted a laboratory-based symptom surveillance of patients in nine sentinel hospitals in Guangxi and discovered new infections caused by rare pathogens [26] .…”

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Advances in Acute Emerging Infectious Disease Symptom Monitoring

Zhang

2022

PAR

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In recent years, the risk of acute emerging infectious diseases has increased significantly due to changes in environmental conditions and social factors, posing a serious threat to public health security and human health. The general susceptibility of the population and the unpredictability and increasing infectiousness of emerging infectious diseases reflect the inadequacy of the existing infectious disease surveillance system for timely detection and screening of emerging infectious diseases, often leading to a certain scale of epidemic outbreaks that seriously harm humans before being detected passively. This is a literature review on symptom surveillance of acute emerging infectious diseases at home and abroad, emphasizing on the subject matter and development of symptom surveillance of emerging infectious diseases, so as to provide a scientific basis for the establishment and improvement of symptom surveillance of acute emerging infectious diseases.

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2022

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“…10,11 Data collected from student or employee absenteeism have also been used to predict when outbreaks will occur several weeks earlier as compared to traditional surveillance and laboratory programs. 12,13 The goal of infection surveillance methods is to identify as many infected individuals as possible-as early on in infection as possible-and being able to accurately use this information to track and predict how infection will spread throughout the population.…”

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Nynatten¹,

Gershon²

2017

UWOMJ

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The threat of pandemic is looming in the public consciousness. Outbreaks of infectious diseases are tracked in order to respond to and prevent epidemics. Historically, both passive and active methods have been used. A promising development is to use social media, such as Twitter or Google, to track and predict outbreaks. Active monitoring consists of reporting and collection of health information, while passive monitoring involves studying data from clinicians to infer if an infectious outbreak has occurred. Social media provides a wealth of information to analyze outbreaks. By studying keywords searched on Google, researchers were able to predict outbreaks 1 to 2 weeks earlier than traditional methods used by the Centers for Disease Control.

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“…Since the first publication on the emergence of Q fever in the Netherlands, thousands of cases have been reported [101,[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115] and the study of small ruminants demonstrated that the same genotype C. burnetii identified in these animals was responsible for the epidemic of Q fever in the Netherlands [101]. Yet another study, conducted by Klaassen et al [116], identified five genotypes of C. burnetii in six patients and six animals from three different regions of the Netherlands [116].…”

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“…Yet another study, conducted by Klaassen et al [116], identified five genotypes of C. burnetii in six patients and six animals from three different regions of the Netherlands [116]. Based on the Q fever epidemic occurred in the Netherlands, the application and importance of an efficient surveillance system, aimed at early identification, has been emphasized [101,113].…”

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Current and Future Trends in the Clinical Diagnosis of Rickettsioses Sensu Lato

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Godoy²,

Mares-Guia³

et al. 2014

IJTDH

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Aims:The aim of this review is to present Rickettsioses sensu lato, with emphasis on their current and future clinical diagnosis. The review presents the conditions, the agents that cause them, and the current gold standards on their diagnosis in national and international reference centres. Additionally, this review covers the various emerging technologies available in the diagnosis of Rickettsioses and discusses their potential for future use as gold standards in the diagnosis of these diseases. Introduction: The introduction presents Rickettsioses sensu lato and gives a broad overview of the conditions they cause, the issues associated with their current diagnosis and the need for their improved, earlier and more accurate diagnosis, in order to prevent current issues with false negatives, misdiagnosis or delay in the diagnosis associated with these conditions, which often renders them grave or lethal. Main Body: The main body of the review presents in independent sections Rickettsias, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Bartonella and Coxiella and the conditions associated with each of these bacteria. Spotted fever, endemic typhus, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, human monocytic ehrlichioses, bartonellosis and Q-fever are some of the conditions associated with this group of proteobacteria. The emphasis is on the clinical diagnosis of these conditions and an overview of the current practice, gold standards in reference

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Evaluation of syndromic surveillance in the Netherlands: its added value and recommendations for implementation

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