Data-Driven Models of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Dynamics: A Review.

ABSTRACT: Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) threatens animal health and leads to considerable economic losses worldwide. Progress towards minimizing both veterinary and financial impact of the disease will be made with targeted disease control policies. To move towards targeted control, specific targets and detailed control strategies must be defined. One approach for identifying targets is to use mathematical and simulation models quantified with accurate and fine-scale data to design and evaluate alternative control policies. Nevertheless, published models of FMDV vary in modelling techniques and resolution of data incorporated. In order to determine which models and data sources contain enough detail to represent realistic control policy alternatives, we performed a systematic literature review

SUBMITTER: Pomeroy LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5205574 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature