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Volume 9, Number 1—January 2003
Research

The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Binational Border Surveillance

Michelle Weinberg*Comments to Author , Stephen Waterman*, Carlos Alvarez Lucas, Veronica Carrion Falcon, Pablo Kuri Morales, Luis Anaya Lopez, Chris Peter‡, Alejandro Escobar Gutiérrez§, Ernesto Ramirez Gonzalez§, Ana Flisser¶, Ralph Bryan*, Enrique Navarro Valle#, Alfonso Rodriguez**, Gerardo Alvarez Hernandez††, Cecilia Rosales‡‡, Javier Arias Ortiz§§, Michael Landen¶¶, Hugo Vilchis##, Julie Rawlings***, Francisco Lopez Leal†††, Luis Ortega‡‡‡, Elaine Flagg*, Roberto Tapia Conyer, Martin S. Cetron*, and for the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project Working Group
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Secretaria de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico; ‡San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency Public Health Laboratory, San Diego, California, USA; §Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencias Epidemiológicas, Mexico City, Mexico; ¶Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; #Instituto de Servicios de Salud Publica de Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico; **California Department of Health Services, San Diego, California, USA; ††Secretaria de Salud Publica, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; ‡‡Arizona Department of Health Services, Tucson, Arizona, USA; §§Servicios de Salud de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico; ¶¶New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; ##Border Epidemiology Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA; ***Texas Department of Health, Austin, Texas, USA; †††Servicios de Salud de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico; ‡‡‡Pan American Health Organization, El Paso, Texas, USA

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Table 3

Timeline for implementation of Border Infectious Disease Surveillance project

1997
 Mandate and objectives, site selection
1998
 Binational planning, surveillance protocol with case definitions and data collection instruments
1999
 Laboratory protocols and infrastructure; epidemiology training
2000–2001
 Pilot data collection
2002–2003 Evaluation, consolidation, site expansion
 

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1Members of the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project Working Group: Elisa Aguilar, Carlos Alonso, Adam Aragon, Enid Argott, Greg Armstrong, Rafael Ayala, Joan Baumbach, Beth Bell, William Bellini, Baltazar Briseño, Sergio Lopez Cabrera, Ahmed Calvo, Richard Campman, Patricia Cantu, Ernestina Castillo, Gary Clark, Nolvia Cortez, Raquel Coto, Jose Armando Covarrubias, Leta Crawford-Miksza, Bruce Elliot, Martha Vazquez Erlbeck, Miguel Escobedo, Howard Fields, Maria Guadalupe Jimenez Fierro, Robert Garcia, Carlos Gonzales, Minerva Diaz de Leon Gonzalez, Louise Gresham, Lucina Gutierrez, W. Lee Hand, Aurora Hiles, Debra Horensky, Wendi Kuhnert, Ericka Larquito, Miguel Angel Lopez, Jose Luis Aranda Lozano, Luis Gonzalez Madrigal, Jorge Magaña, Jay McAuliffe, Gabariel Martinez, Miguel Angel Vaca Marin, Berta Isabel Mendoza, Mercedes Gameros Mercado, Sonia Montiel, William L. Nicholson, Efren Ornelas, Eladio Pereira, Michael Purdy, Enrique Davis Ramirez, Gail Randolph, Susan Reef, Willy Rios-Araico, Mark Rodriguez, Alfonso Ruiz, Rosalba Ruiz, Joaquin Salcedo, Ana Isabel Vidal Sandate, Elsa Sarti, Ana Maria Sato, David Schnurr, William Slanta, Brian Smith, Alejandro Suarez, Juan Treviño, Nohemi Martha Castro Valdez, Yvonne Vasquez, , Roberto Vazquez, Kathy Villa, Abedón Segura Villareal, Consuelo Villaion, Maria Luisa Volker, Vance Vorndam, Laura Walls.

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