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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955903103321

Titolo

Global infectious disease surveillance and detection : assessing the challenges--finding solutions : workshop summary / / rapporteurs: Stanley M. Lemon ... [et al.] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

9786611093495

9780309178938

0309178932

9781281093493

1281093491

9780309111157

0309111153

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LemonStanley M

Disciplina

362.196

Soggetti

Communicable diseases - United States

Public health - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"..a public workshop in Washington D.C., on December 12 and 13, 2006"--P. xii.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Summary and Assessment""; ""1 Surveillance Strategies""; ""2 Surveillance Networks""; ""3 Detection and Diagnostics""; ""4 Resource Needs and Opportunities""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Agenda""; ""Appendix B Acronyms""; ""Appendix C Forum Member Biographies""

Sommario/riassunto

Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced. Containing the spread of such diseases in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, in addition to strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response. Although these actions are often viewed in terms of human



public health, they also challenge the plant and animal health communities. Surveillance, defined as "the continual scrutiny of all aspects of occurrence and spread of a disease that are pertinent to effective control", involves the "systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data." Disease detection and diagnosis is the act of discovering a novel, emerging, or reemerging disease or disease event and identifying its cause. Diagnosis is "the cornerstone of effective disease control and prevention efforts, including surveillance." Disease surveillance and detection relies heavily on the astute individual: the clinician, veterinarian, plant pathologist, farmer, livestock manager, or agricultural extension agent who notices something unusual, atypical, or suspicious and brings this discovery in a timely way to the attention of an appropriate representative of human public health, veterinary medicine, or agriculture. Most developed countries have the ability to detect and diagnose human, animal, and plant diseases. Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges -- Finding Solutions, Workshop Summary is part of a 10 book series and summarizes the recommendations and presentations of the workshop.