Monitoring invasive bacterial diseases in the North American Arctic via the International Circumpolar Surveillance Project

• Main Authors: Desai, S, Li, YA, Zulz, T, Bruce, M
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Health Agency of Canada 2015
• Subjects: Surveillance; Arctic; Canada; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864410/

This paper summarizes the most recent Invasive Bacterial Diseases (IBD) Working Group meeting of the International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) project. The ICS is a population-based surveillance network for invasive bacterial diseases that provides a mechanism to determine changes in incidence rates and antimicrobial resistance. The meeting took place in Montreal, Canada on February 12-13, 2014. Data were included from participating Canadian provincial and territorial jurisdictions as well as from the State of Alaska. This report is based on the audio records of the meeting as well as the meeting presentations.