Underreporting of Human Alveolar Echinococcosis, Germany

We estimated the total number of human alveolar echinococcosis cases in Germany from 2003 through 2005 using the multiple source capture-recapture method. We found a 3-fold higher incidence of the disease than that shown by national surveillance data. We propose a revision of the reporting system to...

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Autores principales: Jorgensen, Pernille, an der Heiden, Matthias, Kern, Petra, Schöneberg, Irene, Krause, Gérard, Alpers, Katharina
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18507906
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1406.071173
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Sumario:We estimated the total number of human alveolar echinococcosis cases in Germany from 2003 through 2005 using the multiple source capture-recapture method. We found a 3-fold higher incidence of the disease than that shown by national surveillance data. We propose a revision of the reporting system to increase case ascertainment.

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