Early warning of infectious disease outbreaks on cattle-transport networks.

ABSTRACT: Surveillance of infectious diseases in livestock is traditionally carried out at the farms, which are the typical units of epidemiological investigations and interventions. In Central and Western Europe, high-quality, long-term time series of animal transports have become available and this opens the possibility to new approaches like sentinel surveillance. By comparing a sentinel surveillance scheme based on markets to one based on farms, the primary aim of this paper is to identify the smallest set of sentinel holdings that would reliably and timely detect emergent disease outbreaks in Swiss cattle. Using a data-driven approach, we simulate the spread of infectious diseases according to the reported or available daily cattle transport data in Switzerland over a four year period. Investig

SUBMITTER: Schirdewahn F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787438 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature