Table 1.

Target diseases for AGSnet sentinels

Category	Description	Target infectious diseases
1	Scientists dealing with clinical (or laboratory) diagnosis of patients, their treatment, follow-up care, and/or epidemic control in health institutions such as hospitals, outpost clinics, paediatrics department, or infectious-diseases control department	Cholera
		Meningococcal meningitis
		Acute flaccid paralysis (polio like)
		Measles
		Acute jaundice syndrome*
2	Scientists mainly doing laboratory work for pathogen identification, drug resistance, or any laboratory study on bacterial, viral, or parasitological agents obtained from specimens of infectious diseases	Influenza
		Drug resistant malaria (clinical)†
		Antimicrobial resistant typhoid fever (chloramphenicol, quinolones)
		Japanese encephalitis
		Plague
3	Scientists working in blood-transfusion services who can provide information on certain blood-borne diseases when blood is screened for such diseases	Dengue
		Lymphatic filariasis‡
		Viral hepatitis B
		Viral hepatitis C
		HIV
		Syphilis

^*Aiming at hepatitis A, B, and E, and yellow fever.

^†Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax.

^‡Replaced by SARS in May, 2003.