Quality assurance applied to animal disease surveillance systems

OIE Revue Scientifique et Technique

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 689-696

  Salman, M D ^a   Stark K D C ^b   Zepeda, C ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^c CENTERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal disease surveillance system; Fault tree; Monitoring and surveillance system; Performance of surveillance system; Quality assurance; Scenario analysis; Veterinary epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0345448928     PISSN: 02531933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20506/rst.22.2.1431     Document Type: Review

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