Volume 15, Number 10—October 2009
Dispatch
Surveillance System for Infectious Diseases of Pets, Santiago, Chile
Javier López, Katia Abarca, Jaime Cerda
, Berta Valenzuela, Lilia Lorca, Andrea Olea, and Ximena Aguilera
, Berta Valenzuela, Lilia Lorca, Andrea Olea, and Ximena Aguilera
Table 1
Average number of notifications per sentinel center, according to health service, Santiago, Chile, October 2004–September 2005*
| Health Service | Poverty (%)† | Average no. notifications |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogs | Cats | ||
| South−East | 13.7 | 160.1 | 20.1 |
| West | 13.2 | 349.7 | 52.3 |
| South | 11.7 | 189.6 | 36.4 |
| North | 9.5 | 143.8 | 22.6 |
| Central | 8.0 | 62.0 | 22.3 |
| East | 6.6 | 74.5 | 18.5 |
*First year of pilot surveillance system
†Average poverty rate of the districts belonging to each health service.
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