Browsing by Author "Pagano, Marcello"
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Pooled Testing for Effective Estimation of the Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni
Mitchell, Shira Arkin; Pagano, Marcello (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012)Rapid and accurate identification of the prevalence of schistosomiasis is key for control and eradication of this devastating disease. The current screening standard for intestinal schistosomiasis is the Katz-Kato method, ... -
Real Time Spatial Cluster Detection Using Interpoint Distances Among Precise Patient Locations
Olson, Karen Lea; Bonetti, Marco; Pagano, Marcello; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2005)Background: Public health departments in the United States are beginning to gain timely access to health data, often as soon as one day after a visit to a health care facility. Consequently, new approaches to outbreak ... -
Surveillance Methods for Monitoring HIV Incidence and Drug Resistance
Exner, Natalie Mae (2014-06-06)Disease surveillance is the continuous collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data. Information gained from routine HIV disease surveillance is vital to national program managers deciding to implement ... -
Survey Designs and Spatio-Temporal Methods for Disease Surveillance
Hund, Lauren Brooke (2012-09-18)By improving the precision and accuracy of public health surveillance tools, we can improve cost-efficacy and obtain meaningful information to act upon. In this dissertation, we propose statistical methods for improving ...