TY - JOUR AU - Bahk, Chi Y. AU - Scales, David A. AU - Mekaru, Sumiko R. AU - Brownstein, John S. AU - Freifeld, Clark C. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/03/20 TI - Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 135 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Infectious disease surveillance has recently seen many changes including rapid growth of informal surveillance, acting both as competitor and a facilitator to traditional surveillance, as well as the implementation of the revised International Health Regulations. The present study aims to compare outbreak reporting by formal and informal sources given such changes in the field. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0885-0 DO - 10.1186/s12879-015-0885-0 ID - Bahk2015 ER -