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Rotavirus Surveillance at a WHO-Coordinated Invasive Bacterial Disease Surveillance Site in Bangladesh: A Feasibility Study to Integrate Two Surveillance Systems.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Tanmoy Arif Mohammad, Ahmed Asm Nawshad Uddin, Arumugam Rajesh, Hossain Belal, Marzan Mahfuza, Saha Shampa, Arifeen Shams El, Baqui Abdullah H, Black Robert E, Kang Gagandeep, Saha Samir Kumar
Abstract excerpt
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently coordinates rotavirus diarrhea and invasive bacterial disease (IBD) surveillance at 178 sentinel sites in 60 countries. However, only 78 sites participate in both surveillance systems using a common sentinel site. Here, we explored the feasibility of extending a WHO-IBD surveillance platform to generate data on the burden of rotaviral diarrhea and its epidemiological...
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