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The Defense Medical Surveillance System and the Department of Defense Serum Repository: Glimpses of the Future of Public Health Surveillance

Mark V. Rubertone, MD, MPH and John F. Brundage, MD, MPH

The authors are with the Army Medical Surveillance Activity, Directorate of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Washington, DC.



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  		FIGURE 1— —Overview of the Defense Medical Surveillance System architecture, with key data sources and functional interrelationships.

Note. DMSS=Defense Medical Surveillance System; DMED=Defense Medical Epidemiology Database.

 


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  		FIGURE 2— —Numbers of individuals with serum specimens stored in the Department of Defense Serum Repository as of June 2001, summarized by number of specimens and distribution of times between earliest and latest collection dates.

 




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