Professionals with methodological and scientific literature search expertise (epidemiologists and information specialists) assisted the teams when requested and provided relevant references as needed.
Owners of cabins in the vicinity of where the outbreak occurred met with the Montana state epidemiologist and received information regarding the epidemiology and prevention of tick-borne relapsing fever.
Basically, epidemiologists are disease detectives, and molecular epidemiologists use genetic information to do their detective work.
The agency quickly deployed hundreds of workers and created an operations center, installing banks of telephones so epidemiologists could relay information from colleagues in the field to top officials at its headquarters in Atlanta and then on to the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House.
Qualitative data can provide epidemiologists with invaluable information that cannot be captured by quantitative data alone.
Notably, clinicians and epidemiologists provided important information on emerging infections, despite not being able to identify the microbes themselves.
The author of one of them (14), proto-epidemiologist Charles Arthaud, sent information from the 1774 75 epizootic to colleagues at the recently opened veterinary school at Alfort.
Therefore, the Automatic Syndromic Surveillance Planning Task Force Committee was created and recruited infection physicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and information technology (IT) experts in July 2003 to oversee the initiation and development of Taiwan's first medical informatics-based emergency department syndromic surveillance system (ED-SSS).
It's a "stigma free" way for men in this population to get HIV/AIDS information, says epidemiologist Jeffrey Klausner of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.
A multidisciplinary virtual working group was convened, including hospital microbiologists, the regional microbiologist, a consultant epidemiologist, and a senior information officer, led by a public health specialty registrar.
