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Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network

The Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network (TIBDN) is a collaborative network of hospitals and microbiology laboratories serving the population of Metropolitan Toronto and Peel Region. To better understand the epidemiology of infection in Canada, TIBDN has been performing population-based surveillance for invasive diseases in the Metropolitan Toronto and Peel Region since 1995.

Study Highlights

  • Collaborative network of all hospital and largest private microbiology laboratories in metropolitan Toronto/Peel Region (pop’n 3.1M)
  • Conducts prospective, population-based surveillance for selected invasive bacterial diseases
  • Invasive disease defined as that associated with positive culture from a normally sterile site
  • Laboratories report all sterile site cultures and send bacterial isolates to study lab
  • Basic information (age, site culture, diagnosis) collected on all cases
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Invasive Bacterial Diseases

 

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