Answer to comments regarding the article “New Coronavirus infections: new challenges, new legacies”
Main Article Content
Keywords
Coronavirus, epidemiology, public health
Abstract
We read with satisfaction the comments from Castañón-González et al., on our publication "Infección del nuevo Coronavirus: nuevos retos, nuevos legados" (“New Coronavirus infections: new challenges, new legacies”). There is complete agreement on “emphasiz[ing] that while there is no information available about the epidemiology," in order to "take into account the bioinformatics and computational resources available."
References
Dávila J, Chowell G, Borja-Aburto VH, Viboud C, Grajales Muñiz C, Miller M. Substantial Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Pandemic A/H1N1 Influenza in Mexico, Winter 2013-2014: Gradual Age Shift and Severity. PLOS Currents Outbreaks. 2014 Mar 26. Edition 1. doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.a855a92f19db1d90ca955f5e908d6631.
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Plan Institucional de preparación y respuesta ante una epidemia de influenza. México, 30 de octubre de 2009.
Secretaría de Salud. Manual para la vigilancia epidemiológica de influenza. Subsecretaría de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud. México, 2014.
Barrera-Badillo G, Ramirez-Gonzalez E, Aparicio-Antonio R, Nuñez-Garcia T, Arellano-Suarez D, et al. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H7N3) Virus Infection in Two Poultry Workers — Jalisco, Mexico, July 2012. MMWR 61(36); 2012: 726-727.
Polanco C, Castañón-González JA, Macías AE, Samaniego JL, Buhse T, Villanueva-Martínez S. Detection of Severe Respiratory Disease Epidemic Outbreaks by CUSUM-Based Overcrowd-Severe-Respiratory-Disease-Index Model. Comput Math Methods Med 2013. Article ID 213206.
Cowling BJ, Wong OL, Lai-Ming H, Riley S, Leung GM. Methods for monitoring influenza surveillance data. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:1314–1321.
Watkins RE, Eagleson S, Veenendaal B, Wright G, Plant AJ. Applying cusum-based methods for the detection of outbreaks of Ross River virus disease in Western Australia. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:37 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-37.
World Health Organization. WHO Interim Global Epidemiological Surveillance Standards for Influenza (July 2012). http://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/technical_consultation/en/index.html