OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance

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...

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Autores principales:	Arias-Carrasco,Raúl, Giddaluru,Jeevan, Cardozo,Lucas E., Martins,Felipe, Maracaja-Coutinho,Vinicius, Nakaya,Helder I.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2021
Materias:	Outbreak Pandemic Epidemiology Surveillance Georeferencing
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602021000100600
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-976020210001006002021-08-09OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillanceArias-Carrasco,RaúlGiddaluru,JeevanCardozo,Lucas E.Martins,FelipeMaracaja-Coutinho,ViniciusNakaya,Helder I. Outbreak Pandemic Epidemiology Surveillance Georeferencing 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileBiological Research v.54 20212021-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602021000100600en10.1186/s40659-021-00343-5
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spellingShingle	Outbreak Pandemic Epidemiology Surveillance Georeferencing Arias-Carrasco,Raúl Giddaluru,Jeevan Cardozo,Lucas E. Martins,Felipe Maracaja-Coutinho,Vinicius Nakaya,Helder I. OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
description	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.
author	Arias-Carrasco,Raúl Giddaluru,Jeevan Cardozo,Lucas E. Martins,Felipe Maracaja-Coutinho,Vinicius Nakaya,Helder I.
author_facet	Arias-Carrasco,Raúl Giddaluru,Jeevan Cardozo,Lucas E. Martins,Felipe Maracaja-Coutinho,Vinicius Nakaya,Helder I.
author_sort	Arias-Carrasco,Raúl
title	OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
title_short	OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
title_full	OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
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title_sort	outbreak: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2021
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OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance

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