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Table 1 Conceptual modules of the database schema.

From: epiPATH: an information system for the storage and management of molecular epidemiology data from infectious pathogens

Module

Information

Bibliography

Bibliographic references, authors, researchers and research groups

Clinical information

Diseases, symptoms, signs, risk factors, protector factors, clinical information, pathogen's tests, vaccines and vaccinations

Laboratory processes

Laboratory processes, extractions, regions, primers, amplifications, sequencing and typing

Outbreaks

Outbreaks

Pathogens

Pathogens

Phylogenetic results

Alignments and phylogenetic trees

Sample sources

Patients, environments, hospitals/health centers and patients' information

Samples

Samples and storage

Sequences

Sequences

Test and Results

Tests1, laboratories, test results and results

Transmissions

Transmissions

Treatments

Treatment names and dates

  1. 1 Tests from CLIA [20] and some added from our laboratory.