Review state-of-the-art of output-based methodological approaches for substantiating freedom from infection.

ABSTRACT: A wide variety of control and surveillance programmes that are designed and implemented based on country-specific conditions exists for infectious cattle diseases that are not regulated. This heterogeneity renders difficult the comparison of probabilities of freedom from infection estimated from collected surveillance data. The objectives of this review were to outline the methodological and epidemiological considerations for the estimation of probabilities of freedom from infection from surveillance information and review state-of-the-art methods estimating the probabilities of freedom from infection from heterogeneous surveillance data. Substantiating freedom from infection consists in quantifying the evidence of absence from the absence of evidence. The quantification usually consists i

SUBMITTER: Meletis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10977073 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature