10 Years of Hurricane Synoptic Surveillance (1997–2006)

10 years of surveillance of human tularaemia in France.

Tularaemia has been mandatorily notifiable in France since October 2002. The surveillance aims to detect early any infection possibly due to bioterrorism and to follow up disease trends. We report the results of national surveillance from 2002 to 2012. A case is defined as a patient with clinical presentation suggestive of tularaemia and biological confirmation of infection or an epidemiologica...

Surveillance of shigellosis in rural Bangladesh: a 10 years review.

Over a period of 10 years 35,620 patients, admitted from a defined surveillance area, had a rectal swab culture done at a rural diarrhoea treatment centre in Bangladesh. Shigella spp. were isolated from 3,440 (9.7%) cases. Marked year to year variations were observed in isolation rates of Shigella spp. ranging from 5.7% to 16.7%. Sh. flexneri was the predominant isolate between 1978 to 1982 (56...

Informatics 10 Years Back , 10 Years Ahead

Interpretation is a theory of approximation of the be— havior of dynamic discrete systems such as the formal seman­ tics ofprograms. Since such behaviors can be characterized by fixpoints, the theory essentially provides constructive and ef— fective methods for fixpoint approximation and checking by abstraction. Non—conventionalapplications of abstract interpretation in— clude the design of hie...

Microprocessors - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead

Five years of surveillance.

service Email alerting the top right corner of the online article. T he British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU) has now been in existence for 5 years and has been actively involved in the surveillance of rare ophthalmological disorders for most of this time. It is now an appropriate time to consider what relevance it has to practising ophthal-mologists. The unit was set up to facilita...