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| Ongoing Projects |
 Guillain-Barré Syndrome SurveillanceBeginning in October 2009, the Emerging Infections Program is conducting active statewide surveillance for all cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
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 Novel H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness EvaluationThe Novel Influenza H1N1 Vaccine Effectiveness evaluation seeks to measure the effectiveness of the monovalent novel H1N1 influenza vaccine in preventing hospitalization among all persons recommended to receive this vaccine.
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 FoodNetThe FoodNet project 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.
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 Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project (HPV-IMPACT)This project aims to monitor the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine on cervical cancer precursors and HPV types associated with those precursors.
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 Clostridium difficule (C. difficile) SurveillanceThe C. difficile surveillance system aims to characterize the incidence and epidmiology of community- and healthcare-associated C. difficile infections. |
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| Completed Projects |
| Community Acquired Pneumonia Surveillance (CAP) CAP was a population-based surveillance project in the greater New Haven area for community-acquired pneumonia due to emerging or reemerging infectious agents.
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| Ehrlichiosis Surveillance The state-wide surveillance program for human ehrlichia infections was conducted between 1995 and 2000 in order to characterize the prevalence and annual incidence of ehrlichiosis and its spectrum of disease symptoms.
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| Active Surveillance for Ehrlichiosis and Tickborne Disease Active surveillance for human ehrlichia and babesia infections was conducted in primary care physician offices in a 12-town area around Lyme, CT. This surveillance helped document the emergence and burden of illness associated with these two emerging tickborne pathogens.
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| Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease Prevention Demonstration Project The objective of this project was the evaluation of current group B Streptococcal disease prevention activities in Connecticut as part of an integrated approach to perinatal infectious disease prevention.
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| Sentinel Surveillance for Unexplained Diarrhea Study (SSUDS) The objectives of this multisite (CT & MD) project were to define the spectrum of agents that cause diarrheal illness in the community and to better understand modes of transmission of diarrheal illness. Learn More
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| Candidemia Surveillance The objectives of this population-based, prospective surveillance project included (1) the determination of the incidence of Candida blood stream infection in the state of Connecticut and (2) definition of the risk factors for development of antifungal resistance in patients with candidemia to assess clinical outcome as a function of antifungal resistance and other factors.
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| Neonatal Sepsis Surveillance The objective of this statewide surveillance program was to determine whether adoption of the perinatal antibiotic prophylaxis program to reduce the incidence of early-onset group B streptococcal disease would affect the incidence and antibiotic susceptibilities of other organisms causing sepsis and meningitis in Connecticut.
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| Unexplained Illness and Death Surveillance (UIDP) UIDP is a population-based, prospective surveillance program for unexplained severe illness and death of possible infectious etiology in previously healthy residents of New Haven County. Learn More
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| Unexplained Deaths Possibly Related to Bioterrorism The Unexplained Deaths Possibly Related to Bioterrorism project was undertaken to identify patients who died in the hospital of unknown causes and to assess the degree to which diagnostic testing was performed to rule in or out the possibility of exposure to bioterrorism agents.
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| Medical Examiner/ Coroner Based Surveillance for Fatal Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism The Medical Examiner/Coroner Based Surveillance for Fatal Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism (Med-X) is a pathology-based syndromic surveillance system designed to recognize bioterrorism mortality and fatal infections of public health importance.
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| UPP aims to further characterize and understand the etiologies of severe pneumonia by collecting epidemiological and clinical data on participants as well as performing a large panel of research and diagnostic assays. |
| Enhanced Pneumonia Surveillance Project EPS is a population-based surveillance study that aims to describe the demographic and epidemiological characteristics of patients admitted to New Haven City hospitals with severe pneumonia.
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| Pediatric Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Study The pediatric vaccine effectiveness study was conducted from the 2005-06 through the 2007-08 influenza seasons in order to determine the ability of the seasonal flu shot to prevent influenza-associated hospitalizations among children aged 6 to 23 months.
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| Lyme Disease Intervention Case-Control Study This study was conducted from 2005-2007 in order to better understand the impact of certain prevention behaviors on Lyme disease risk in order to design more effective interventions. |
| New Haven County Liver Study NHCLS conducts population-based, prospective surveillance for newly diagnosed and existing cases of chronic liver disease among residents of New Haven County. Epidemiological and clinical data are used to better characterize CLD of all causes, with emphasis on infectious causes.
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