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1Division of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, State Key Laboratory for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Early Warning, Beijing 102206, China.
Abstract:
Infectious disease surveillance have played an important role in the national diseases prevention and control strategies. In line with the reporting system, infectious disease surveillance has been greatly improved and played pivotal role in preventing epidemics since 1949 in China. To date, surveillance remains an effective approach to infectious disease control and prevention because of the global serious situation. In this column "infectious disease surveillance" , we have involved articles as systematic analysis of surveillance data and solid evidence related to the development of strategies and measures for infectious diseases control and prevention.
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