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The usefulness of school-based syndromic surveillance for detecting malaria epidemics: experiences from a pilot project in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Syndromic surveillance is a supplementary approach to routine surveillance, using pre-diagnostic and non-clinical surrogate data to identify possible infectious disease outbreaks. To date, syndromic surveillance has primarily been used in high-income countries for diseases such as influe...

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Autores principales: Ashton, Ruth A., Kefyalew, Takele, Batisso, Esey, Awano, Tessema, Kebede, Zelalem, Tesfaye, Gezahegn, Mesele, Tamiru, Chibsa, Sheleme, Reithinger, Richard, Brooker, Simon J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26749325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2680-7