Fig 1.
Groups of items currently surveyed by EPIMIC, classified according to infectious syndromes or platforms based on specific technologies or dedicated to specific pathogens. See also S3 Table.
Fig 2.
Examples of EPIMIC respiratory infection surveillance tables and plots.
Table (top; A) shows counts of respiratory samples and viral diagnoses entered each week in an EPIMIC Microsoft Excel file; numbers in red font are those above the alert threshold corresponding to the mean plus 2 standard deviations calculated for historical data and shown in the top rows of the table (the critical threshold was adjusted here by discarding from historical data those corresponding to epidemic periods). Plot (bottom; B) shows trends of weekly numbers of samples positive for respiratory viruses. Nb, number; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
Fig 3.
Examples of EPIMIC stool samples and rotavirus diagnoses surveillance tables and plots.
Table (A) shows counts of stool samples and positive diagnoses of rotavirus entered each week into an EPIMIC Microsoft Excel file; numbers in red font are those above the alert threshold corresponding to the mean plus 2 standard deviations calculated for historical data and shown in the top rows of the table. Plots B, C and D show cumulated weekly numbers of stool samples received at our laboratory, of positive rotavirus diagnosis, along with the proportions of positive samples per season (B), year (C) and month (D). Nb, number.
Fig 4.
Examples of numbers of samples handled and positive diagnoses performed in 2011 at our laboratory.
Table 1.
Summary of the main types of clinical samples surveyed by EPIMIC and, by sample type, of main pathogens surveyed.
Fig 5.
EPIMIC methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance plot.
The purple envelope represents the 95% confidence interval of the blue slope.