Epidemics of Influenza and Pediatric Diseases Observed in Infectious Disease Surveillance in Japan 1999-2005

摘要

BACKGROUNDA method for determining epidemics in small areas from the sentinel surveillance data has been proposed and applied in the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID) in Japan. We observed epidemics of influenza and 11 pediatric diseases by the method in the NESID in Japan during 1999-2005.