Mount Sinai Hospital is a University of Toronto patient care, teaching, and research centre.
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
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