现场流行病学基石——病例定义.pptVIP

* Now let’s get some examples of some case definitions. Here is the case definition for rabies for routine surveillance. Since all rabies cases produce obvious disease to the brain that results in death we can use a very limited clinical description of encephalitis leading to death within 10 days. The epidemiological information is the exposure to the animal bite. Now, we do need to be careful with this because some people may be bitten by small animals such as bats but not recognize the bite. Finally there is some very good laboratory tests that can be done including detection of rabies vi