Estimation of swine movement network at farm level in the US from the Census of Agriculture data.

ABSTRACT: Swine movement networks among farms/operations are an important source of information to understand and prevent the spread of diseases, nearly nonexistent in the United States. An understanding of the movement networks can help the policymakers in planning effective disease control measures. The objectives of this work are: (1) estimate swine movement probabilities at the county level from comprehensive anonymous inventory and sales data published by the United States Department of Agriculture - National Agriculture Statistics Service database, (2) develop a network based on those estimated probabilities, and (3) analyze that network using network science metrics. First, we use a probabilistic approach based on the maximum information entropy method to estimate the movement probabilities a

SUBMITTER: Moon SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6470308 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature