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Brooks-Pollock, Ellen, Jong, M. C. M. de, Keeling, Matthew James, Klinkenberg, Don and Wood, James L. N. (2015) Eight challenges in modelling infectious livestock diseases. Epidemics, Volume 10 . doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2014.08.005
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2014.08.005
Abstract
The transmission of infectious diseases of livestock does not differ in principle from disease transmission in any other animals, apart from that the aim of control is ultimately economic, with the influence of social, political and welfare constraints often poorly defined. Modelling of livestock diseases suffers simultaneously from a wealth and a lack of data. On the one hand, the ability to conduct transmission experiments, detailed within host studies and track individual animals between geocoded locations make livestock diseases a particularly rich potential source of realistic data for illuminating biological mechanisms of transmission and conducting explicit analyses of contact networks. On the other hand, scarcity of funding, as compared to human diseases, often results in incomplete and partial data for many livestock diseases and regions of the world. In this overview of challenges in livestock disease modelling, we highlight eight areas unique to livestock that, if addressed, would mark major progress in the area.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Mathematical models, Livestock -- Diseases -- Mathematical models | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Epidemics | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1755-4365 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2015 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 10 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 5 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.epidem.2014.08.005 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Alborada Trust, United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate, Fogarty International Center. Research and Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics Programme (RAPIDD), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC) | ||||||||||
| Grant number: | EP/H027270/1 (EPSRC), 278976 (FP7), BB/I012192/1 (BBSRC) |
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