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ArticleParasite epidemiology and control2022

A national surveillance of eosinophilic meningitis in Thailand.

Noppadol Aekphachaisawat, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth, Sittichai Khamsai, Watchara Boonsawat, Somsak Tiamkao, Panita Limpawattana, Wanchai Maleewong, Chetta Ngamjarus

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Noppadol AekphachaisawatCentral Library, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Kittisak SawanyawisuthDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Sittichai KhamsaiDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Watchara BoonsawatDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Somsak TiamkaoDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Panita LimpawattanaDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Wanchai MaleewongDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Chetta NgamjarusDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

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Introduction: Eosinophilic meningitis (EOM) is an emerging infectious disease worldwide. The most common cause of EOM is infection with Methods: We retrospectively retrieved reported cases of EOM from all provinces in Thailand and quantified them by month and year. Data were retrieved from Ministry of Public Health database. We developed a website application to explore the EOM cases in Thailand including regions and provinces using box plots. The website also provided the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models and Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) models for predicting the disease cases from nation, region, and province levels. The suitable models were considered by minimum Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). The appropriate SARIMA model was used to predict the number of EOM cases. Results: From 2003 to 2021, 3330 EOM cases were diagnosed and registered in the national database, with a peak in 2003 (median of 22 cases). We determined SARIMA(1,1,2)(2,0,0)[12] to be the most appropriate model, as it yielded the fitted values that were closest to the actual data. A predictive surveillance website was published on http://202.28.75.8/sample-apps/NationalEOM/. Conclusions: We determined that web application can be used for monitoring and exploring the trend of EOM patients in Thailand. The predictive values matched the actual monthly numbers of EOM cases indicating a good fit of the predictive model.

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