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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018

Integrated Serologic Surveillance of Population Immunity and Disease Transmission.

Benjamin F Arnold, Heather M Scobie, Jeffrey W Priest, Patrick J Lammie

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Benjamin F Arnold
Heather M Scobie
Jeffrey W Priest
Patrick J Lammie

Funding

New Serological Measures of Infectious Disease Transmission IntensityK01AI119180 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ARNOLD, BENJAMIN F · 2015 to 2019
$709k
NIAID NIH HHS K01 AI119180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibodies are unique among biomarkers in their ability to identify persons with protective immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases and to measure past exposure to diverse pathogens. Most infectious disease surveillance maintains a single-disease focus, but broader testing of existing serologic surveys with multiplex antibody assays would create new opportunities for integrated surveillance. In this perspective, we highlight multiple areas for potential synergy where integrated surveillance could add more value to public health efforts than the current trend of independent disease monitoring through vertical programs. We describe innovations in laboratory and data science that should accelerate integration and identify remaining challenges with respect to specimen collection, testing, and analysis. Throughout, we illustrate how information generated through integrated surveillance platforms can create new opportunities to more quickly and precisely identify global health program gaps that range from undervaccination to emerging pathogens to multilayered health disparities that span diverse communicable diseases.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlPopulation SurveillanceSeroepidemiologic StudiesCommunicable DiseasesHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunologic SurveillanceSerologic TestsantibodiesCambodiacommunicable diseasesdisease eliminationdisease surveillanceemergingimmunityimmunologic surveillancemalariamultiplex antibody assaysneglected diseasesneglected tropical diseasestransmissionUnited Statesvaccination

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PMID29912680
PMCPMC6038749

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