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LETTER TO THE EDITOR. GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS DURING THE SEASONAL INFLUENZA OUTBREAK 2010/11 IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND (Euro Surveill., extract, edited)
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 11, 17 March 2011
Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR. GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS DURING THE SEASONAL INFLUENZA OUTBREAK 2010/11 IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
P Parola 1, P Colson 2, G Dubourg 2, M Million 1, R Charrel 2, P Minodier 3, D Raoult 1
1Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Unit, University Hospitals of Marseille, Marseille, France
F?d?ration de Bact?riologie-Hygi?ne-Virologie, P?le des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Clinique et Biologique, University Hospitals of Marseille, Timone Hospital, Marseille France
2 Urgences P?diatriques, North University Hospital, Marseille, France
Citation style for this article: Parola P, Colson P, Dubourg G, Million M, Charrel R, Minodier P, Raoult D. Letter to the editor. Group A streptococcal infections during the seasonal influenza outbreak 2010/11 in South East England. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(11)
ii=19816. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19816
Date of submission: 11 March 2011
To the editor: We read with great interest the recent article about invasive Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections associated with influenza B in England by Scaber et al. [1]. Indeed, since 2002 the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory of University Hospitals in Marseille, France, has implemented a tool for the weekly surveillance of microbiological data (called EPIMIC), which consists in a simple warning program using Microsoft Excel software. Both the numbers of samples received and of pathogens diagnosed are compared to historical data as soon as they are entered. Any significant increase beyond the critical threshold, defined by the mean of historical data plus two standard deviations (SDs), generates a signal allowing to detect abnormal and seasonal events in infectious diseases [2].
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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 11, 17 March 2011
Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR. GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS DURING THE SEASONAL INFLUENZA OUTBREAK 2010/11 IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
P Parola 1, P Colson 2, G Dubourg 2, M Million 1, R Charrel 2, P Minodier 3, D Raoult 1
1Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Unit, University Hospitals of Marseille, Marseille, France
F?d?ration de Bact?riologie-Hygi?ne-Virologie, P?le des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Clinique et Biologique, University Hospitals of Marseille, Timone Hospital, Marseille France
2 Urgences P?diatriques, North University Hospital, Marseille, France
Citation style for this article: Parola P, Colson P, Dubourg G, Million M, Charrel R, Minodier P, Raoult D. Letter to the editor. Group A streptococcal infections during the seasonal influenza outbreak 2010/11 in South East England. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(11)
ii=19816. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19816Date of submission: 11 March 2011
To the editor: We read with great interest the recent article about invasive Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections associated with influenza B in England by Scaber et al. [1]. Indeed, since 2002 the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory of University Hospitals in Marseille, France, has implemented a tool for the weekly surveillance of microbiological data (called EPIMIC), which consists in a simple warning program using Microsoft Excel software. Both the numbers of samples received and of pathogens diagnosed are compared to historical data as soon as they are entered. Any significant increase beyond the critical threshold, defined by the mean of historical data plus two standard deviations (SDs), generates a signal allowing to detect abnormal and seasonal events in infectious diseases [2].
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