Evaluation of sampling methods for effective detection of infected pig farms during a disease outbreak.

ABSTRACT: Emergency surveillance following an outbreak of transboundary animal diseases such as classical swine fever (CSF), is conducted to find another new infection as early as possible. Although larger sample sizes can help achieve higher disease surveillance sensitivity, the sample size is limited by the availability of resources in an emergency situation. Moreover, the recent CSF outbreak reported in Japan was associated with fewer clinical signs; this emphasizes the importance of detecting infected farms by surveillance. In this study, we aimed to identify effective and labor-efficient sampling methods showing high probabilities of detecting infection, by simulating infection and sampling in pigsties. We found that impartial sampling, which involves selection of pigs to be sampled from the fo

SUBMITTER: Murato Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7580991 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature