121
Cities Mortality Reporting System
As part of its national influenza surveillance effort, the
CDC receives weekly mortality reports from (now) 122 cities
and metropolitan areas in the United States within 2-3 weeks
from the date of death. These reports, compiled by the Epidemiology
Program Office (EPO) of CDC, summarize the total number of deaths
occurring in these cities/areas each week, as well as the number
due to pneumonia and influenza. The reports received through
the 121 Cities Mortality Reporting System are published as Table
4 of the Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). For more information,
visit the section of EPO's web site concerning public health
surveillance: http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs.htm#121.
Active
Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs)
At 9 Emerging Infections Program sites (EIPs), surveillance
is conducted for invasive bacterial diseases due to pathogens
of public health importance. Visit their home page:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/abcs/default.htm
BaCon
Study
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), American
Red Cross (ARC), the Hospital Infections Program at CDC, and
the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) are initiating the first
nationwide study to assess the frequency of blood component
bacterial contamination associated with transfusion reaction
(BaCon Study). Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/bacon/index.htm
Border
Infectious Disease Surveillance Project (BIDS)
The Border Infectious Disease Surveillance
(BIDS) Project is a binational surveillance system for infectious
diseases along the U.S.-Mexico border. The network conducts
active, sentinel surveillance for syndromes consistent with
hepatitis and febrile-rash illness at clinical facilities
in 4 areas on both sides of the border. BIDS was established
to help public health officials better understand and detect
important infectious disease problems along the U.S.-Mexico
border. The project is a collaboration of CDC, 9 U.S. and
Mexican border state health departments, the Mexican Secretariat
of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization. For more
information, consult the BIDS project's first summary publication:
Doyle TJ, Bryan RT. Infectious disease morbidity in the US
region bordering Mexico, 1990-1998. JID 2000;182(5):1503-10.
Dialysis
Surveillance Network (DSN)
The Dialysis Surveillance Network (DSN) is a voluntary national
surveillance system initiated by CDC in August 1999. This system
was created to assist hemodialysis centers in tracking vascular
access infections and other bacterial infections in hemodialysis
patients, as well as to monitor the rates of colonization and
infection by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in these patients.
Data gathered through the DSN are used to compare rates between
the participating centers (benchmarking) and to motivate change
in practices among the centers, in order to prevent further
infections. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/DIALYSIS/dsn.htm.
EMERGEncy
ID NET
EMERGEncy ID NET is an interdisciplinary, multicenter, emergency
department-based network for research on emerging infectious
diseases. It was established in cooperation with the National
Center for Infectious Diseases, as part of the CDC’s strategy
to expand and complement existing disease detection and control
activities. The network is based at 11 university-affiliated,
urban hospital emergency departments with more than 900,000
combined annual patient visits. It also was developed
to be a mechanism for rapidly responding to new disease or
epidemics. Current projects include investigation of bloody
diarrhea and the prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing
Escherichia coli, animal exposures and rabies postexposure
prophylaxis practices, and nosocomial emergency department
Mycobaterium tuberculosis transmission. Other
areas of interest or future investigations planned include
the study of antimicrobial use, meningitis, and encephalitis,
and consideration of other public health concerns such as
injury and national and international network expansion. For
more information, contact the system administrator at IDNET@ucla.edu.
Foodborne
Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network
(FoodNet) is a collaborative project among CDC, the 9 Emerging
Infections Program sites (EIPs), the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FoodNet
consists of active surveillance for foodborne diseases and
related epidemiologic studies designed to help public health
officials better understand the epidemiology of foodborne
diseases in the United States. Visit their home page:
http://www.cdc.gov/foodnet/.
Global
Emerging Infections Sentinel Network (GeoSentinel)
GeoSentinel is a provider-based sentinel network of the International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM), funded through a cooperative
agreement with CDC. GeoSentinel consists of travel/tropical
medicine clinics around the world that monitor geographic
and temporal trends in morbidity among travelers and other
globally mobile populations. A rapid worldwide query and response
function electronically links 1,500 ISTM providers around
the world. Visit their home page: http://www.istm.org/geosentinel/geosentinel_main.html.
Gonococcal
Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP)
The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) is
a collaborative project to monitor antimicrobial resistance
in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States.
Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dastlr/gcdir/Resist/gisp.html
Hemophilia
Surveillance System (HSS)
The Hemophilia Surveillance System (HSS) is the first
population-based study of hemophilia in the United States.
Data from the medical records of more than 3,000 persons with
hemophilia have been abstracted and entered into a computer
database. The database will be an invaluable source of information
needed to achieve the goal of reducing or preventing the complications
of hemophilia. The system is part of the Hematologic Diseases
Branch, Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research
(DASTLR), in NCID. You may submit questions about the system
to the Hematologic Diseases Branch, via their HDB
contact page, or you can e-mail the branch directly at
hdb@cdc.gov.
Integrated
Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a strategy
of the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization
(WHO/AFRO). The IDSR strategy aims to improve the availability
and use of surveillance and laboratory data to control priority
infectious diseases that are the leading causes of death,
disability, and illness in the African region. The purpose
of IDSR is to improve the ability of districts to detect and
respond to outbreaks of priority infectious diseases with
well-known and available interventions. Visit their home page:
www.cdc.gov/idsr
Intensive
Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (ICARE)
The CDC Hospital Infections Program, in cooperation with
the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, began
Project ICARE (Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology)
at a subset of hospitals participating in the National Nosocomial
Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system at CDC. Project ICARE
provides data on the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance
and antimicrobial use in U.S. healthcare settings. Visit
their home page: http://www.sph.emory.edu/icare/
(Please note that their Web page is not part of the CDC Web
site.)
International Network for the Study and Prevention of Emerging
Antimicrobial Resistance (INSPEAR)
INSPEAR is an international surveillance program established
by the Hospital Infections Program in conjunction with international
partners in 33 countries. INSPEAR is a response to the global
emergence of drug-resistant organisms and the resulting need
for international surveillance programs and the strengthening
of the microbiologic and epidemiologic capacities of hospitals
worldwide. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/surveill/inspear.htm
Measles
Laboratory Network (Global Laboratory Network For Measles
Surveillance)
The measles laboratory network within the Pan American
Health Organization, in partnership with the Measles Virus
Section of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
has improved the capacity and quality of measles surveillance
in the regions of the Americas and the Caribbean. This
website is intended to facilitate communication among laboratories
that conduct measles diagnosis and virus characterization,
as well as those involved in surveillance of measles.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/measles/index.htm
National
Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System: Enteric Bacteria
(NARMS)
NARMS was launched as a collaboration between CDC, the
Food and Drug Administration-Center for Veterinary Medicine
(FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture-Food Safety
and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Service (USDA),
and state and local health departments to prospectively monitor
the antimicrobial resistance of human nontyphoid Salmonella,
Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Campylobacter
isolates. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/narms/
National
Malaria Surveillance System
The
National Malaria Surveillance System collects epidemiological
and clinical information on malaria cases diagnosed in the
United States. This system is managed by the Division of Parasitic
Diseases. Visit their home page:
www.cdc.gov/malaria/cdcactivities/nmss.htm.
Malaria cases are reported by state health departments, laboratories,
and health care providers. The Malaria Epidemiology Branch
has revised the malaria case surveillance form, CDC 54.1 01/2002.
An electronic version of this revised form is now available
at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/malaria/form.htm.
For more information regarding the malaria surveillance system
or assistance in completing the form, please call the Malaria
Epidemiology Branch at 770-488-7788.
National Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Disease
Surveillance (PulseNet)
PulseNet is a national network of public health laboratories
that performs DNA "fingerprinting" on bacteria that
may be foodborne. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/pulsenet/pulsenet.htm
National
Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS)
The NNIS system is conducted by the Hospital Infections
Program to collect high quality nosocomial infection surveillance
data that can be aggregated into a national database.
Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/surveill/nnis.htm
National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
Maintained by the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) of CDC,
the NNDSS is a mechanism for the regular collection, compilation,
and publication of reports of disease considered notifiable
at the national level. Data on selected notifiable infectious
diseases are published weekly in the MMWR
and at year-end in the annual Summary
of Notifiable Diseases, United States. For more information,
visit the section of EPO's web site concerning public health
surveillance: http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs.htm.
National
Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS)
NREVSS is a laboratory-based system that monitors temporal
and geographic patterns associated with the detection of respiratory
syncytial virus (RSV), human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV),
respiratory and enteric adenoviruses, and rotavirus. Influenza
specimen information, also reported to NREVSS, is integrated
with CDC Influenza Surveillance. Data are collected from collaborating
university and community hospital laboratories, selected state
and county public health laboratories, and commercial laboratories.
These participating laboratories report virus detections,
isolations, and electron microscopy results on a weekly basis.
Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/nrevss/
National
Surveillance System for Health Care Workers (NaSH)
The National Surveillance System for Health Care Workers
(NaSH) was developed by CDC in collaboration with healthcare
facilities to systematically collect information important
to prevent occupational exposures and infections among health
care workers. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/SURVEILL/nash.htm
National
Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network
To study the epidemiologic significance of the nation's
tuberculosis problem, CDC established the National Tuberculosis
Genotyping and Surveillance Network in April of 1996. The
members of the network input data on DNA fingerprint images,
along with epidemiologic information, to a centralized database
at CDC. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dastlr/tb/tb_tgsn.htm
National
West Nile Virus Surveillance System
The National West Nile Virus Surveillance System was developed
in 2000 to monitor the geographic and temporal spread of West
Nile virus in the United States. Currently, 48 states and
4 cities have surveillance systems in place to monitor West
Nile virus activity. Data are being collected on a weekly
basis for the following five categories: wild birds, sentinel
chicken flocks, human cases, veterinary cases, and mosquito
surveillance. Visit the surveillance system's home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/surv&control.htm
Public
Health Laboratory Information System (PHLIS)
PHLIS collects data on cases/isolates of specific notifiable
diseases from every state within the United States. Data are
reported to PHLIS electronically. Visit their home page:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/phlisdata/default.htm
Surveillance
for Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance Connected to Healthcare
(SEARCH)
SEARCH is a network of voluntary participants (i.e., hospitals,
representatives of private industry, professional organizations,
and state health departments) who have joined together to report
the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced
susceptibility to vancomycin. Visit their home page:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/aresist/search.htm
Unexplained
Deaths and Critical Illnesses Surveillance System
The system is designed to improve CDC's capacity to rapidly
identify the cause of unexplained deaths or critical illness
and to improve understanding of the causes of specific infectious
disease syndromes for which an etiologic agent is frequently
not identified. Active population-based surveillance is conducted
in 4 Emerging Infections Program sites (EIPs) with a total
population of 7.7 million 1- to 49-year-olds. National and
international surveillance are passive for clusters of unexplained
deaths and illnesses. Visit their home page: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/unexplaineddeaths_t.htm
See also Internet-based
Reporting Systems.
United
States Influenza Sentinel Physicians Surveillance Network
Approximately 260 physicians around the country report
each week the total number of patients seen and the number
of those patients with influenza-like illness by age group.
View the weekly influenza summary update: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/flu/weekly.htm.
See also Internet-based Surveillance
Systems.
Viral
Hepatitis Surveillance Program (VHSP)
The VHSP collects clinical, serologic, and epidemiologic
data pertaining to risk factors of disease acquisition. It
is operated by the Hepatitis Branch, Division of Viral and
Rickettsial Diseases. Contact the program by calling (888)
4-HEP-CDC or (888) 443-7232.
Waterborne-Disease
Outbreak Surveillance System
Since 1971, CDC, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), and the Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists (CSTE) have maintained a collaborative surveillance
system of the occurrences and causes of waterborne-disease
outbreaks. This system includes data regarding outbreaks associated
with drinking water and recreational water. Outbreak reports
are collected annually and are published every 2 years as
an MMWR Surveillance Summary. For additional information,
contact (770) 488-7760. This system is managed by the Division
of Parasitic Diseases.
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