Epidemiological Surveillance Systems
Mostrando 25-28 de 28 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Assessing the impact of humanitarian assistance in the health sector
There have been significant improvements in the design and management of humanitarian aid responses in the last decade. In particular, a significant body of knowledge has been accumulated about public health interventions in emergencies, following calls for developing the evidence base of humanitarian health interventions. Several factors have prompted this,
BioMed Central.
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26. Influenza in Madrid, Spain, 1991-92: validity of the sentinel network.
OBJECTIVES--The aim was, firstly, to study the validity of the sentinel network data by analysing the correlation between the weekly influenza cases detected by the network and the number of cases notified to the compulsory disease notification system and, secondly, to describe the epidemiology of the period 1991-92 in terms of the sentinel network data. DES
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27. Use of ribotyping in epidemiological surveillance of nosocomial outbreaks.
Over the past few years, genotypic methods based on the study of bacterial DNA polymorphism have shown high discriminatory power for strain differentiation and superiority over most phenotypic methods commonly available in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Some of the methods used, however, required either a high level of technology and sophisticated equ
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28. Outbreak of Pseudomonas fluorescens Bacteremia among Oncology Patients
From 7 to 24 March 1997, four patients developed Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteremia at the hospital; one on the oncology ward and the other three in the chemotherapy room. These patients all had underlying malignancies and had the Port-A-Cath (Smiths Industries Medical Systems, Deltec, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.) implants. Three patients had primary bacteremia, a
American Society for Microbiology.