Bug Watch

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Bug Watch is a passive surveillance system provided as a service to the medical community by Children's Hospital Colorado Epidemiology Department and Microbiology/Virology Laboratory. It displays the number of selected microorganisms detected by our laboratory in hospitalized and outpatient children throughout Children's Hospital Colorado system during the indicated weeks.

The number of laboratory-confirmed cases of pertussis reported to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in 0 day-20 year olds are also included.

Due to physician referral and test ordering patterns and the time required to detect some microorganisms, Bug Watch results are only an estimate of true disease incidence.

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