Table 1.
Modeling Approaches Used to Estimate the Total Number of Illnesses for Different Types of Data, Canada
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Pathogens for which laboratory-confirmed illnesses were scaled up |
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| National reportable disease data | Provincial reportable disease data | Pathogens for which Canadian population scaled down | Other methods |
| Brucella spp. | Trichinella spp. | Adenovirus | Escherichia coli, other diarrheagenic |
| Campylobacter spp. | Listeria monocytogenes | Astrovirus | ETEC |
| Clostridium botulinum | Vibrio parahaemolyticus | Norovirus | VTEC non-O157 |
| Cryptosporidium spp. | Yersinia enterocolitica | Rotavirus | Bacillus cereus |
| Cyclospora cayetanensis | Sapovirus | Staphylococcus aureus | |
| VTEC O157 | Toxoplasma gondii | ||
| Giardia sp. | Clostridium perfringens | ||
| Hepatitis A | |||
| Salmonella spp., nontyphoidal | |||
| Salmonella Typhi | |||
| Shigella spp. | |||
| Vibrio cholerae | |||
| Vibrio spp., othera | |||
| Vibrio vulnificusa | |||
a
These pathogens are reported to the laboratory-based system of NESP and are not considered to be reportable to CNDSS.
VTEC, verotoxigenic Escherichia coli; ETEC, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.