Beyond traditional surveillance: applying syndromic surveillance to developing settings--opportunities and challengesLarissa May
The George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 2B, Washington, DC 20037, USA
BMC Public Health 9:242. 2009
..However, there are no clearly established guidelines for how countries should conduct this surveillance, which types of emerging disease syndromes should be reported, nor any means for enforcement...
Building public health capacity in Afghanistan to implement the International Health Regulations: a role for security forcesJean Paul Chretien
Division of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Biosecur Bioterror 8:277-85. 2010
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The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillanceJean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, USA
World Hosp Health Serv 43:32-7. 2007
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- Chikungunya in Europe: what's next?
Jean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Lancet 370:1805-6. 2007
- Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999-2007
J Jeremy Sueker
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:23-7. 2010
..Areas for further program strengthening are identified...
- The AFHSC-Division of GEIS Operations Predictive Surveillance Program: a multidisciplinary approach for the early detection and response to disease outbreaks
Clara J Witt
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
BMC Public Health 11:S10. 2011
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- Prevalence of seropositivity to spotted fever group rickettsiae and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a large, demographically diverse US sample
Paul C F Graf
Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:70-7. 2008
..Most epidemiologic studies of tick-borne rickettsial diseases in the United States are small and have limited demographic scope, making broader risk assessment difficult...
- Drought-associated chikungunya emergence along coastal East Africa
Jean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System DoD GEIS, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 7500, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:405-7. 2007
..These results suggest that drought-affected populations may be at heightened risk for chikungunya fever, and underscore the need for safe water storage during drought relief operations...
- The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillance
Jean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Bull World Health Organ 85:174-80. 2007
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- Demographic and occupational predictors of early response to a mailed invitation to enroll in a longitudinal health study
Jean Paul Chretien
Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System DoD GEIS, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:6. 2007
..Utilizing characteristics of early responders (refusal or consent) in enrollment and recontact efforts may be a unique and cost-effective approach for improving the quality of epidemiologic research...
