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SUBMITTER: Bronner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685302 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bronner A A Morignat E E Fournié G G Vergne T T Vinard J-L JL Gay E E Calavas D D
Scientific reports 20151221
Our objective was to study the ability of a syndromic surveillance system to identify spatio-temporal clusters of drops in the number of calvings among beef cows during the Bluetongue epizootic of 2007 and 2008, based on calving seasons. France was partitioned into 300 iso-populated units, i.e. units with quite the same number of beef cattle. Only 1% of clusters were unlikely to be related to Bluetongue. Clusters were detected during the calving season of primary infection by Bluetongue in 28% ( ...[more]