OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
Biol. Res
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54: 20-20, 2021. ilus, tab
Article
in English
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| ID: biblio-1505784
ABSTRACT
The current COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 3.7 million victims and it will cause more deaths in the coming months. Tools that track the number and locations of cases are critical for surveillance and help in making policy decisions for controlling the outbreak. However, the current surveillance web-based dashboards run on proprietary platforms, which are often expensive and require specific computational knowledge. We developed a user-friendly web tool, named OUTBREAK, that facilitates epidemic surveillance by showing in an animated graph the timeline and geolocations of cases of an outbreak. It permits even non-specialist users to input data most conveniently and track outbreaks in real-time. We applied our tool to visualize the SARS 2003, MERS, and COVID19 epidemics, and provided them as examples on the website. Through the zoom feature, it is also possible to visualize cases at city and even neighborhood levels. We made the tool freely available at https//outbreak.sysbio.tools/. OUTBREAK has the potential to guide and help health authorities to intervene and minimize the effects of outbreaks.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Screening study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Biol. Res
Journal subject:
Biology
Year:
2021
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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Chile
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad de Chile/CL
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University of São Paulo/BR
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