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. 2003 Jul;9(7):781-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid0907.030083.

Disease surveillance and the academic, clinical, and public health communities

Robert W Pinner  1 , Catherine A Rebmann, Anne Schuchat, James M Hughes
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Disease surveillance and the academic, clinical, and public health communities

Robert W Pinner et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Jul.

Abstract

The Emerging Infections Programs (EIPs), a population-based network involving 10 state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, complement and support local, regional, and national surveillance and research efforts. EIPs depend on collaboration between public health agencies and clinical and academic institutions to perform active, population-based surveillance for infectious diseases; conduct applied epidemiologic and laboratory research; implement and evaluate pilot prevention and intervention projects; and provide capacity for flexible public health response. Recent EIP work has included monitoring the impact of a new conjugate vaccine on the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease, providing the evidence base used to derive new recommendations to prevent neonatal group B streptococcal disease, measuring the impact of foodborne diseases in the United States, and developing a systematic, integrated laboratory and epidemiologic method for syndrome-based surveillance.

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Figure 1
Distribution of Emerging Infections Programs (EIPs), a network of 10 state health departments and their collaborators in local health departments, academic institutions, and clinical settings, coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. *New Mexico was added as the 10th EIP site in late 2002 and will begin EIP activities during 2003.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Incidence of early- and late-onset invasive group B streptococcal disease in three active surveillance areas (California, Georgia, and Tennessee), 1990–1998, and activities for the prevention of group B streptococcal disease (22). CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ACOG, American College of Obstetricians; AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Relative rates compared with 1996, adjusted for sites, of laboratory-diagnosed cases of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Shigella, by year, FoodNet, United States, 1996–2001 (28). Bacterial pathogens with highest incidences of the 10 studied diseases are shown.
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