American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 13, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(4):389-390; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi209
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RE: "HOW MANY FOODBORNE OUTBREAKS OF SALMONELLA INFECTION OCCURRED IN FRANCE IN 1995? APPLICATION OF THE CAPTURE-RECAPTURE METHOD TO THREE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS"
Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité Medical School, Fabeckstrasse 6062, Berlin 14195, Germany
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In a recent paper, Gallay et al. (1
) used three-sources capture-recapture modeling to estimate the number of foodborne outbreaks of Salmonella infection that had occurred in France during the year 1995. The data provided in the article were used in a course on capture-recapture methods given in March 2004 for the Faculty of Public Health at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose of this letter is twofold: 1) to discuss some inconsistencies in the way the capture-recapture data were presented by Gallay et al. (1
), leading to
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A. Gallay and J.-C. Desenclos TWO OF THE AUTHORS REPLY Am. J. Epidemiol., August 15, 2005; 162(4): 390 - 391. [Full Text] [PDF] |
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