Basic principles. Epidemiologic concepts. Sampling methods. Measurement of disease frequency and production. Studying disease in animal populations. Descriptive epidemiology. Disease causation. Surveys and analytic observational studies. Design of field trials. Theoretical epidemiology: systems analysis and modeling. Animal health economics. Applied epidemiology. Rationale, strategies, and concepts of animal disease control. Monitoring disease and production. Field investigations.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of livestock. The research topic here features nine studies supplementing the state-of-the art of the knowledge on the pathogenesis and epidemiology FMD in swine.
Parte I. Principios basicos. Conceptos epidemiologicos. Metodos de muestreo. Medida de la frecuencia de la enfermedad y de la produccion. Parte II. Estudio de la enfermedad en poblaciones animales. Epidemiologia descriptiva. Causalidad de la enfermedad. Encuestas y estudios analiticos de observacion. Diseno de pruebas de campo. Epidemiologia teorica: Analisis y modelizacion de sistemas. Parte III. Economia de la sanidad animal. Parte IV. Epidemiologia aplicada. Racionalidad, estrategias y conceptos del control de enfermedades animales. Monitorizacion de la enfermedad y de la produccion. Investigaciones de campo.
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Simon More, Dominique Bicout, Anette Botner, Andrew Butterworth, Paolo Calistri, Klaus Depner, Sandra Edwards, Bruno Garin-Bastuji, Magaret Good, Christian Gortazar Schmidt, Virginie Michel, Miguel Angel Miranda, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Antonio Velarde, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Lisa Sihvonen, Hans Spoolder, Jan Arend Stegeman, Mohan Raj, Preben Willeberg, Denise Candiani, Christoph Winckler· 2017
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