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.
Surveillance for GBS and neonatal sepsis
Laboratories report all sterile site
cultures
Basic information (age, site culture,
diagnosis) collected on all cases
Detailed chart review with consent
Denominator data on births from birth
registry and hospital records
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