Surveillance should be strengthened to improve epidemiological understandings of mosquito-borne Barmah Forest virus infection

• मुख्य लेखकों: David Durrheim (लेखक), Cameron Webb (लेखक), Keith Eastwood (लेखक), Lutz Ehlkes (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Introduction: Barmah Forest virus (BFV) is a mosquito-borne virus causing epidemic polyarthritis in Australia. This study used case follow-up of cases from the surveillance system to demonstrate that routinely collected BFV notification data were an unreliable indicator of the true location of expos...