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

• Autors principals: David Durrheim (Autor), Cameron Webb (Autor), Keith Eastwood (Autor), Lutz Ehlkes (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: 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...