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Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Synopsis

Implementation and Initial Analysis of a Laboratory-Based Weekly Biosurveillance System, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Michael HuartComments to Author , Gabriel Bedubourg, Cédric Abat, Philippe Colson, Jean Marc Rolain, Hervé Chaudet, Pierre Edouard Fournier, Didier Raoult, and Xavier Deparis
Author affiliations: Centre d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique des Armées, Marseille, France (M. Huart, G. Bedubourg, X. Deparis); Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille (M. Huart, C. Abat, P. Colson, J.M. Rolain, H. Chaudet, P.E. Fournier, D. Raoult); Fondation Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection–Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille (M. Huart, C. Abat, P. Colson, J.M. Rolain, P.E. Fournier, D. Raoult); Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé et Traitement de l’Information Médicale, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille (M. Huart, C. Abat, P. Colson, J.M. Rolain, P.E. Fournier, D. Raoult)

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Table 2

Ten bacterial species with the most alarms triggered by the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Surveillance Epidemiologic System, France, July 1, 2013–March 20, 2016*

Bacterial species
 No. alarms total
 Average weekly no. alarms
Pseudomonas putida 87 0.6
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 82 0.6
Neisseria gonorrhoeae 78 0.6
Hafnia alvei 74 0.5
Enterobacter aerogenes 72 0.5
Staphylococcus capitis 72 0.5
Staphylococcus lugdunensis 70 0.5
Streptococcus constellatus 68 0.5
Staphylococcus haemolyticus 66 0.5
Haemophilus parainfluenzae 65 0.5

*Total no. alarms for the entire system during this period was 5,915 (averaging 42 alarms weekly).

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