"Sentinel Surveillance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population. It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort such as in a geographic area or population subgroup to estimate trends in a larger population. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D018571
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.980.438.700.650 E05.318.650 N05.715.360.300.800.438.625.650 N06.850.520.308.980.438.700.650 N06.850.520.699 N06.850.780.675.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Sentinel Surveillance- Sentinel Surveillance
- Surveillance, Sentinel
- Syndromic Surveillance
- Surveillance, Syndromic
- Biosurveillance Systems
- Biosurveillance System
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sentinel Surveillance" by people in Profiles.
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Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 Among Children and Adolescents Enrolled in Acute Respiratory Infection Sentinel Surveillance in South Africa, 2020-2022. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2024 May; 18(5):e13300.
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Sentinel seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Gauteng Province, South Africa, August - October 2020. S Afr Med J. 2021 11 05; 111(11):1078-1083.
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The Global Landscape of Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis Data Reported to the World Health Organization-Coordinated Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance Network, 2014-2019. J Infect Dis. 2021 09 01; 224(12 Suppl 2):S161-S173.
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COVID-19 in pregnancy in South Africa: Tracking the epidemic and defining the natural history. S Afr Med J. 2020 07 30; 110(8):729-731.
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Human respiratory syncytial virus and influenza seasonality patterns-Early findings from the WHO global respiratory syncytial virus surveillance. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2020 11; 14(6):638-646.
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Heterogeneity in influenza seasonality and vaccine effectiveness in Australia, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa: early estimates of the 2019 influenza season. Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov; 24(45).
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Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance in the World Health Organization African Region Using the Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance Network, 2011-2016. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 09 05; 69(Suppl 2):S49-S57.
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Anopheles parensis contributes to residual malaria transmission in South Africa. Malar J. 2019 Jul 29; 18(1):257.
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Healthcare seeking behaviour for common infectious syndromes among people in three administrative regions of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2015: a cross-sectional study. Pan Afr Med J. 2019; 33:159.
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Health and economic burden of influenza-associated illness in South Africa, 2013-2015. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2019 09; 13(5):484-495.