Equine syndromic surveillance in Colorado using veterinary laboratory testing order data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Risk Identification Unit (RIU) of the US Dept. of Agriculture's Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) conducts weekly surveillance of national livestock health data and routine coordination with agricultural stakeholders. As part of an initiative to increase the number of species, health issues, and data sources monitored, CEAH epidemiologists are building a surveillance system based on weekly syndromic counts of laboratory test orders in consultation with Colorado State University laboratorians and statistical analysts from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Initial efforts focused on 12 years of equine test records from three state labs. Trial syndrome groups were formed based on RIU experience and published literature. Explorator

SUBMITTER: Burkom H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396905 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature