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Volume 9, Number 1, January 2003

The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Binational Border Surveillance

Michelle Weinberg,* Stephen Waterman,* Carlos Alvarez Lucas,† Veronica Carrion Falcon,† Pablo Kuri Morales,† Luis Anaya Lopez,† Chris Peter,‡ Alejandro Escobar Gutiérrez,§ Ernesto Ramirez Gonzalez,§ Ana Flisser,¶ Ralph Bryan,* Enrique Navarro Valle,# Alfonso Rodriguez,** Gerardo Alvarez Hernandez,†† Cecilia Rosales,‡‡ Javier Arias Ortiz,§§ Michael Landen,¶¶ Hugo Vilchis,## Julie Rawlings,*** Francisco Lopez Leal,††† Luis Ortega,‡‡‡ Elaine Flagg,* Roberto Tapia Conyer,† and Martin Cetron* for the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project Working Group
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Secretaria de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico; ‡San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency Public Health Laboratory, San Diego, California, USA; §Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencias Epidemiológicas, Mexico City, Mexico; ¶Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; #Instituto de Servicios de Salud Publica de Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico; **California Department of Health Services, San Diego, California, USA; ††Secretaria de Salud Publica, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; ‡‡Arizona Department of Health Services, Tucson, Arizona, USA; §§Servicios de Salud de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico; ¶¶New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA;## Border Epidemiology Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA; ***Texas Department of Health, Austin, Texas, USA; ††† Servicios de Salud de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico; ‡‡‡Pan American Health Organization, El Paso, Texas, USA

 
 
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Figure 2. Border Infectious Disease Surveillance project  sentinel sites in sister cities along U.S.-Mexico border: Tijuana–San Diego, Nogales-Nogales, Las Cruces–Ciudad Juarez–El Paso, and Reynosa-McAllen. The new cities are Mexicali-Imperial (the sister city pair near Tijuana–San Diego) and Brownsville (near McAllen).

 

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