AbstractDevelopments in molecular fingerprinting of pathogens with epidemic potential have offered new opportunities for improving detection and monitoring of biothreats. However, the lack of scalable definitions for infectious disease clustering presents a barrier for effective use and evaluation of new data types for early warning systems. A novel working definition of an outbreak based on temporal and spatial clustering of molecular genotypes is introduced in this paper. It provides an unambiguous way of clustering of causative pathogens and is adjustable to local disease prevalence and availability of public health resources. The performance of this definition in prospective surveillance is assessed in the context of community outbreaks...
Summary Background Epidemiological surveillance relies on microbial strain typing, which defines g...
IntroductionWith growing amounts of data available, identification of clusters of persons linked to ...
Typing methods for discriminating different bacterial isolates of the same species are essential epi...
AbstractDevelopments in molecular fingerprinting of pathogens with epidemic potential have offered n...
Genotypic characterization of bacterial isolates provides valuable information for epidemiological s...
Genotypic characterization of bacterial isolates provides valuable information for epidemiological s...
BACKGROUND: This paper proposes a novel framework for bioinformatics assisted biosurveillance and ea...
Outbreaks of foodborne disease appear in laboratory data as small, localized clusters of increased i...
The rapid detection of outbreaks is a key step in the effective control and containment of infectiou...
In this work, we study the problem of clustering bacterial isolates into epidemiologically related g...
Clustering infections by genetic similarity is a popular technique for identifying potential outbrea...
To improve (Salmonella) cluster detection by serotype in New York City (NYC), we developed an automa...
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is the leading cause of salmonellosis in Australia, and the ...
We propose a new class of spatio-temporal cluster detection methods designed for the rapid detection...
As demonstrated by the anthrax attack through the United States mail, people infected by the biologi...
Summary Background Epidemiological surveillance relies on microbial strain typing, which defines g...
IntroductionWith growing amounts of data available, identification of clusters of persons linked to ...
Typing methods for discriminating different bacterial isolates of the same species are essential epi...
AbstractDevelopments in molecular fingerprinting of pathogens with epidemic potential have offered n...
Genotypic characterization of bacterial isolates provides valuable information for epidemiological s...
Genotypic characterization of bacterial isolates provides valuable information for epidemiological s...
BACKGROUND: This paper proposes a novel framework for bioinformatics assisted biosurveillance and ea...
Outbreaks of foodborne disease appear in laboratory data as small, localized clusters of increased i...
The rapid detection of outbreaks is a key step in the effective control and containment of infectiou...
In this work, we study the problem of clustering bacterial isolates into epidemiologically related g...
Clustering infections by genetic similarity is a popular technique for identifying potential outbrea...
To improve (Salmonella) cluster detection by serotype in New York City (NYC), we developed an automa...
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is the leading cause of salmonellosis in Australia, and the ...
We propose a new class of spatio-temporal cluster detection methods designed for the rapid detection...
As demonstrated by the anthrax attack through the United States mail, people infected by the biologi...
Summary Background Epidemiological surveillance relies on microbial strain typing, which defines g...
IntroductionWith growing amounts of data available, identification of clusters of persons linked to ...
Typing methods for discriminating different bacterial isolates of the same species are essential epi...