The impact of the initial public health response to COVID-19 on swine health surveillance in Ontario.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 restrictions and the pandemic have affected animal health and food production through the disease's effects on human activities. COVID-19 impact on swine health surveillance can be assessed by investigating submissions and test positivity for pathogens before and after COVID-19 restrictions. PRRSV, Influenza A virus, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and PCV-2 are considered important and economically challenging respiratory diseases for the swine populations. By reviewing test results from swine samples submitted for diagnostic testing to a regional diagnostic laboratory, and by assessing total submissions, total positive tests, and the proportion of positive tests at weekly intervals with time series techniques and generalized linear regression models, we evaluated COVID-19's impa

SUBMITTER: Petukhova T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8523356 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature