title: Medical surveillance of infectious disease endpoints.
abstract: Occupational medical surveillance typically targets chronic progressive diseases. In contrast, most infectious diseases are acute rather than chronic, and the exposures that result in their transmission are often acute but frequently repetitive. Therefore, the strategies for occupational infectious disease surveillance are different from those for other occupational disease, as detailed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: California Occupational Health Program, Department of Health Services, Berkeley.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Clever
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*