Parameter Values for Epidemiological Models of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Swine.

ABSTRACT: In the event of a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) incursion, response strategies are required to control, contain, and eradicate the pathogen as efficiently as possible. Infectious disease simulation models are widely used tools that mimic disease dispersion in a population and that can be useful in the design and support of prevention and mitigation activities. However, there are often gaps in evidence-based research to supply models with quantities that are necessary to accurately reflect the system of interest. The objective of this study was to quantify values associated with the duration of the stages of FMD infection (latent period, subclinical period, incubation period, and duration of infection), probability of transmission (within-herd and between-herd via spatial spread), and diagno

SUBMITTER: Kinsley AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4887472 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature