1. 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

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