Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue.
PLoS Comput Biol
; 13(7): e1005607, 2017 Jul.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28727821
ABSTRACT
Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens over half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to more than 100 countries, government-led efforts and tools for timely identification and tracking of new infections are still lacking in many affected areas. Multiple methodologies that leverage the use of Internet-based data sources have been proposed as a way to complement dengue surveillance efforts. Among these, dengue-related Google search trends have been shown to correlate with dengue activity. We extend a methodological framework, initially proposed and validated for flu surveillance, to produce near real-time estimates of dengue cases in five countries/states Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. Our result shows that our modeling framework can be used to improve the tracking of dengue activity in multiple locations around the world.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Internet
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Dengue
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Ferramenta de Busca
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Asia
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Brasil
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Mexico
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS Comput Biol
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos