Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network 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 Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network
Invasive Bacterial Diseases Metropolitan Toronto/Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada, 1995-1997 Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network