Table 1

Conceptual modules of the database schema.

Module
Information

Bibliography
Bibliographic references, authors, researchers and research groups
Clinical information
Diseases, symptoms, signs, risk factors, protector factors, clinical information, pathogen's tests, vaccines and vaccinations
Laboratory processes
Laboratory processes, extractions, regions, primers, amplifications, sequencing and typing
Outbreaks
Outbreaks
Pathogens
Pathogens
Phylogenetic results
Alignments and phylogenetic trees
Sample sources
Patients, environments, hospitals/health centers and patients' information
Samples
Samples and storage
Sequences
Sequences
Test and Results
Tests1, laboratories, test results and results
Transmissions
Transmissions
Treatments
Treatment names and dates

1 Tests from CLIA [20] and some added from our laboratory.

Amadoz and González-Candelas BMC Infectious Diseases 2007 7:32   doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-32