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Meningococcal
Study results from University of Wurzburg in the area of meningococcal published
September 16th, 2008
"Surveillance of infectious diseases increasingly relies on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The integration of pathogen fine typing data in dynamic systems and visualization of spatio-temporal clusters are a technical challenge for system development," investigators in Wurzburg, Germany report. "An online geographic information system (EpiScanGIS) based on open source components has been launched in Germany in May 2006 for real time provision of meningococcal typing data in conjunction with demographic information (age, incidence, population density). Spatio-temporal clusters of disease detected by computer assisted cluster analysis (SaTScan (TM)) are visualized...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-16)
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