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Travelers as a sentinel population: Use of sentinel networks to inform pretravel and posttravel evaluation

The establishment of collaborative sentinel surveillance networks specifically to monitor disease trends among travelers offers new options for evaluating travel health issues. These networks can inform preand posttravel patient management by providing complementary surveillance information, facilit...

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Autor principal: Leder, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Current Science Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19094825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11908-009-0008-4
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description The establishment of collaborative sentinel surveillance networks specifically to monitor disease trends among travelers offers new options for evaluating travel health issues. These networks can inform preand posttravel patient management by providing complementary surveillance information, facilitating communication and collaboration between participating network sites, and enabling new analytical options for travel-related research. The two major multinational sentinel networks are TropNetEurop and GeoSentinel. Practical examples demonstrating their significant contributions to improved travel health information are discussed. Data obtained from studying health problems among travelers may also have significant benefits for local populations in resource-limited countries. However, there are limitations of data collected by sentinel networks, so they should be considered as complementary tools and not relied on as an exclusive basis for evaluating health risks among travelers.
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spelling pubmed-70890412020-03-23 Travelers as a sentinel population: Use of sentinel networks to inform pretravel and posttravel evaluation Leder, Karin Curr Infect Dis Rep Article The establishment of collaborative sentinel surveillance networks specifically to monitor disease trends among travelers offers new options for evaluating travel health issues. These networks can inform preand posttravel patient management by providing complementary surveillance information, facilitating communication and collaboration between participating network sites, and enabling new analytical options for travel-related research. The two major multinational sentinel networks are TropNetEurop and GeoSentinel. Practical examples demonstrating their significant contributions to improved travel health information are discussed. Data obtained from studying health problems among travelers may also have significant benefits for local populations in resource-limited countries. However, there are limitations of data collected by sentinel networks, so they should be considered as complementary tools and not relied on as an exclusive basis for evaluating health risks among travelers. Current Science Inc. 2008-12-24 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC7089041/ /pubmed/19094825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11908-009-0008-4 Text en © Current Medicine Group LLC 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19094825
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