Identifying an outbreak of a novel swine disease using test requests for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome as a syndromic surveillance tool

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  O'Sullivan, Terri L ^a   Friendship, Robert M ^a   Pearl, David L ^a   McEwen, Beverly ^b   Dewey, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test requests; Disease surveillance; Laboratory data; Swine; Syndromic surveillance; Test results

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTERIVIRUS; CIRCOVIRUS; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS; PORCINE RESPIRATORY AND REPRODUCTIVE SYNDROME VIRUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTION; CIRCOVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ONTARIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84867423299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-8-192     Document Type: Article

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