This study aims to identify the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of Spotted Fever in Brazil between 2008 2017. A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional with a quantitative approach that used as source data Sistema de Informação Agravos Notificação (SINAN) available public database Departamento Informática do Único Saúde (DATASUS), adopting following variables within pre-establ...

OBJECTIVES China is one of the 22 tuberculosis (TB) high-burden countries in the world. As TB is a major public health problem in China, spatial analysis could be applied to detect geographic distribution of TB clusters for targeted intervention on TB epidemics. METHODS Spatial analysis was applied for detecting TB clusters on county-based TB notification data in the national notifiable infec...

BACKGROUND Cape Town has one of the highest TB burdens of any city in the world. In 1900 the City of Cape Town, New York City and London had high mortality of tuberculosis (TB). Throughout the 20th century contemporaneous public health measures including screening, diagnosis and treatment were implemented in all three settings. Mandatory notification of TB and vital status enabled comparison of...

This paper describes the design and development of a Disease Outbreak Notification System (DONS) in Saudi Arabia. The main function of DONS is to warn for potential outbreaks. A prototype of the DONS was implemented in a hybrid cloud environment as an online/real-time disease outbreak notification system. The system notifies experts of potential disease outbreaks of both pre-listed diseases and...

Selective screening and partner notification are two principal means of preventing and controlling syphilis in the United States, yet few studies have been undertaken to compare and evaluate the cost or effectiveness of detecting syphilis using either strategy. The objective of this paper is to assess from the perspective of a health department the cost-effectiveness of selective screening comp...

OBJECTIVES Notification and treatment of sex partners after diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is essential to reduce reinfection and further transmission. GOAL The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of partner notification and subsequent health-seeking behavior in a high-risk population in Lima, Peru. STUDY DESIGN STD-infected participants of an HIV/STD preve...

BACKGROUND Timely reporting of infectious disease cases to public health authorities is essential to effective public health response. To evaluate the timeliness of reporting to the Dutch Municipal Health Services (MHS), we used as quantitative measures the intervals between onset of symptoms and MHS notification, and between laboratory diagnosis and notification with regard to six notifiable d...

Serosurveillance is an important component of any comprehensive surveillance system for vaccine preventable diseases. Disease notification data are necessary to detect outbreaks and can provide timely epidemiological profiles of a disease. However, the incidence of a disease is often under-estimated by notifications, especially when a proportion of cases are asymptomatic. If this proportion cha...

Abstract Contact tracing is increasingly used to combat COVID-19, and digital implementations are now being deployed, many based on Apple Google’s Exposure Notification System. These systems utilize non-traditional smartphone-based technology, presenting challenges in understanding possible outcomes. In this work, we create individual-based models of three Washington state counties explore how ...