The association between submission counts to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory and the economic and disease challenges of the Ontario swine industry from 1998 to 2009

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 275-283

  O'Sullivan, T ^a   Friendship, R ^a   Pearl, D L ^a   McEwen, B ^b   Ker, A ^b   Dewey, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economics; Laboratory submissions; Passive disease surveillance; Swine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTION; CIRCOVIRUS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CIRCOVIRUS; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS 2; SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84865428459     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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