Key result
Australia's national serosurveillance program addresses the under-estimation and bias in disease notification data for vaccine preventable diseases.
Serosurveillance is an important component of comprehensive surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases, addressing the limitations of disease notification data.
Supports serosurveillance integration into VPD monitoring; leaves open optimal design and evaluation needs.
Serosurveillance is an important component of any comprehensive surveillance system for vaccine preventable diseases. Disease notification data are necessary to detect outbreaks and can provide timely epidemiological profiles of a disease. However, the incidence of a disease is often under-estimated by notifications, especially when a proportion of cases are asymptomatic. If this proportion changes with age, or if cases are clinically misdiagnosed, then notification data may present biased information.
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Heather F. Gidding (2003) conducted a review in Vaccine preventable diseases. Serosurveillance program was evaluated. Australia's national serosurveillance program addresses the under-estimation and bias in disease notification data for vaccine preventable diseases.
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