A New Data Management System for the French National Registry of Human Alveolar Echinococcosis Cases

Overview

Journal Parasite

Specialty Parasitology

Date 2014 Dec 20

PMID 25526544

Citations 13

Authors

Amandine Charbonnier

Jenny Knapp

Florent Demonmerot

Solange Bresson-Hadni

Francis Raoul

Frederic Grenouillet

Laurence Millon

Dominique Angele Vuitton

Sylvie Damy

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Abstract

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an endemic zoonosis in France due to the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis. The French National Reference Centre for Alveolar Echinococcosis (CNR-EA), connected to the FrancEchino network, is responsible for recording all AE cases diagnosed in France. Administrative, epidemiological and medical information on the French AE cases may currently be considered exhaustive only on the diagnosis time. To constitute a reference data set, an information system (IS) was developed thanks to a relational database management system (MySQL language). The current data set will evolve towards a dynamic surveillance system, including follow-up data (e.g. imaging, serology) and will be connected to environmental and parasitological data relative to E. multilocularis to better understand the pathogen transmission pathway. A particularly important goal is the possible interoperability of the IS with similar European and other databases abroad; this new IS could play a supporting role in the creation of new AE registries.

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