Surveillance should be strengthened to improve epidemiological understandings of mosquito-borne Barmah Forest virus infection
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Western Pacific Surveillance and Response |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/article/view/161/166 |