EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers
Abstract Background EURIS (European Resistance Intervention Study) was launched as a multinational study in September of 2000 to identify the multitude of complex risk factors that contribute to the high carriage rate of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children attending Day Care...
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ftbiomed:oai:biomedcentral.com:1472-6947-3-9 2023-05-15T16:51:28+02:00 EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers Silva, Sara Gouveia-Oliveira, Rodrigo Maretzek, António Carriço, João Gudnason, Thorolfur Kristinsson, Karl G Ekdahl, Karl Brito-Avô, António Tomasz, Alexander Sanches, Ilda Santos Lencastre, Hermínia de Almeida, Jonas 2003-07-08 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/3/9 en eng BioMed Central Ltd. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/3/9 Copyright 2003 Silva et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. Research article 2003 ftbiomed 2007-11-11T15:40:15Z Abstract Background EURIS (European Resistance Intervention Study) was launched as a multinational study in September of 2000 to identify the multitude of complex risk factors that contribute to the high carriage rate of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children attending Day Care Centers in several European countries. Access to the very large number of data required the development of a web-based infrastructure – EURISWEB – that includes a relational online database, coupled with a query system for data retrieval, and allows integrative storage of demographic, clinical and molecular biology data generated in EURIS. Methods All components of the system were developed using open source programming tools: data storage management was supported by PostgreSQL, and the hypertext preprocessor to generate the web pages was implemented using PHP. The query system is based on a software agent running in the background specifically developed for EURIS. Results The website currently contains data related to 13,500 nasopharyngeal samples and over one million measures taken from 5,250 individual children, as well as over one thousand pre-made and user-made queries aggregated into several reports, approximately. It is presently in use by participating researchers from three countries (Iceland, Portugal and Sweden). Conclusion An operational model centered on a PHP engine builds the interface between the user and the database automatically, allowing an easy maintenance of the system. The query system is also sufficiently adaptable to allow the integration of several advanced data analysis procedures far more demanding than simple queries, eventually including artificial intelligence predictive models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland BioMed Central |
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Abstract Background EURIS (European Resistance Intervention Study) was launched as a multinational study in September of 2000 to identify the multitude of complex risk factors that contribute to the high carriage rate of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children attending Day Care Centers in several European countries. Access to the very large number of data required the development of a web-based infrastructure – EURISWEB – that includes a relational online database, coupled with a query system for data retrieval, and allows integrative storage of demographic, clinical and molecular biology data generated in EURIS. Methods All components of the system were developed using open source programming tools: data storage management was supported by PostgreSQL, and the hypertext preprocessor to generate the web pages was implemented using PHP. The query system is based on a software agent running in the background specifically developed for EURIS. Results The website currently contains data related to 13,500 nasopharyngeal samples and over one million measures taken from 5,250 individual children, as well as over one thousand pre-made and user-made queries aggregated into several reports, approximately. It is presently in use by participating researchers from three countries (Iceland, Portugal and Sweden). Conclusion An operational model centered on a PHP engine builds the interface between the user and the database automatically, allowing an easy maintenance of the system. The query system is also sufficiently adaptable to allow the integration of several advanced data analysis procedures far more demanding than simple queries, eventually including artificial intelligence predictive models. |
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Silva, Sara Gouveia-Oliveira, Rodrigo Maretzek, António Carriço, João Gudnason, Thorolfur Kristinsson, Karl G Ekdahl, Karl Brito-Avô, António Tomasz, Alexander Sanches, Ilda Santos Lencastre, Hermínia de Almeida, Jonas |
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Silva, Sara Gouveia-Oliveira, Rodrigo Maretzek, António Carriço, João Gudnason, Thorolfur Kristinsson, Karl G Ekdahl, Karl Brito-Avô, António Tomasz, Alexander Sanches, Ilda Santos Lencastre, Hermínia de Almeida, Jonas EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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Silva, Sara Gouveia-Oliveira, Rodrigo Maretzek, António Carriço, João Gudnason, Thorolfur Kristinsson, Karl G Ekdahl, Karl Brito-Avô, António Tomasz, Alexander Sanches, Ilda Santos Lencastre, Hermínia de Almeida, Jonas |
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EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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EURISWEB – Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers |
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eurisweb – web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in day care centers |
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