Analysis of horse movements from non-commercial horse properties in New Zealand

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 245-253

  Rosanowski, S M ^a   Cogger, N ^a   Rogers, C W ^a   Bolwell, C F ^a   Benschop, J ^a   Stevenson, M A ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

epidemiology; Equine; equine influenza; infectious disease control; logistic regression; movement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; HORSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEW ZEALAND; PET ANIMAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; COMMERCE; DATA COLLECTION; HORSES; NEW ZEALAND; PETS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATION; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84881663556     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2012.750571     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Anonymous. 2010. The official New Zealand Road Code, Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Transport Authority. http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadcode/road-code-index.html. (accessed 19 December 2011)
2. Anonymous. 2011. Amended Rules of Racing, Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Incorporated. http://www.nzracing.co.nz/About/RulesDirectivesPolicies.aspx. (accessed 14 December 2011)
3. Bigras-Poulin, M, Thompson, R A, Chriel, M, Mortensen, S and Greiner, M. 2006. Network analysis of Danish cattle industry trade patterns as an evaluation of risk potential for disease spread. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 76: 11 - 39. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.04.004)
4. Callinan, I. 2008. Equine Influenza. The August 2007 Outbreak in Australia, Australia: Commonwealth Copyright Administration. http://www.equineinfluenzainquiry.gov.au/eiiexhibits/REP.0001.001.0001.pdf. (accessed 25 August 2010)
5. Cowled, B, Ward, M P, Hamilton, S and Garner, G. 2009. The equine influenza epidemic in Australia: spatial and temporal descriptive analyses of a large propagating epidemic. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 92: 60 - 70. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.08.006)
6. Dohoo, I R, Martin, W and Stryhn, H. 2010. Veterinary Epidemiological Research, 2, Canada: AVC Inc, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
7. Etter, J F and Perneger, T V. 1997. Analysis of non-response bias in a mailed health survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 50: 1123 - 8. (doi:10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00166-2)
8. Hayama, Y, Kobayashi, S, Nishida, T, Nishiguchi, A and Tsutsui, T. 2010. Risk of equine infectious disease transmission by non-race horse movements in Japan. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 72: 839 - 44. (doi:10.1292/jvms.09-0447)
9. Herholz, C, Fussel, A E, Timoney, P, Schwermer, H, Bruckner, L and Leadon, D. 2008. Equine travellers to the Olympic Games in Hong Kong 2008: a review of worldwide challenges to equine health, with particular reference to vectorborne diseases. Equine Veterinary Journal, 40: 87 - 95. (doi:10.2746/042516408X253136)
10. Hosmer, D W and Lemeshow, S. 2000. Applied logistic regression, 2, New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
11. Ireland, J L, Clegg, P D, McGowan, C M, McKane, S A and Pinchbeck, G L. 2011. A crosssectional study of geriatric horses in the United Kingdom. Part 1: demographics and management practices. Equine Veterinary Journal, 43: 30 - 6. (doi:10.1111/j.2042-3306.2010.00145.x)
12. Kincaid, T M and Olsen, A R. 2011. Spsurvey: spatial survey design and analysis. R package version 2.2
13. Kirby, A T, Traub-Dargatz, J L, Hill, A E, Kogan, L R, Morley, P S and Heird, J C. 2010. Development, application, and validation of a survey for infectious disease control practices at equine boarding facilities. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association,: 1166 - 72. (doi:10.2460/javma.237.10.1166)
14. León, E A, Stevenson, M A, Duffy, S J, Ledesma, M and Morris, R S. 2006. A description of cattle movements in two departments of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 76: 109 - 20. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.04.010)
15. Lockhart, C Y, Stevenson, M A, Rawdon, T G, Gerber, N and French, N P. 2010. Patterns of contact within the New Zealand poultry industry. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 95: 258 - 66. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.04.009)
16. Martínez-López, B, Perez, A M and Sánchez-Vizcaíno, J M. 2011. Identifying equine premises at high risk of introduction of vector-borne diseases using geo-statistical and spacetime analyses. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 100: 100 - 8. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.02.002)
17. Mellor, D J, Love, S, Walker, R, Gettinby, G and Reid, S WJ. 2001. Sentinel practice-based survey of the management and health of horses in northern Britain. Veterinary Record, 149: 417 - 23. (doi:10.1136/vr.149.14.417)
18. Robin, C A, Wylie, C E, Wood, J LN and Newton, J R. 2010. Making use of equine population demography for disease control purposes: preliminary observations on the difficulties of counting and locating horses in Great Britain. Equine Veterinary Journal, 43: 372 - 5. (doi:10.1111/j.2042-3306.2010.00186.x)
19. Rosanowski, S M, Cogger, N, Rogers, C W, Benschop, J and Stevenson, M A. 2012a. A description of the demographic characteristics of the New Zealand noncommercial horse population with data collected using a generalised randomtessellation stratified sampling design. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.05.016
20. Rosanowski, S M, Rogers, C W, Cogger, N, Benschop, J and Stevenson, M A. 2012b. The implementation of biosecurity practices and visitor protocols on noncommercial horse properties in New Zealand. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.05.001
21. Rosanowski, S M, Cogger, N and Rogers, C W. 2012c. An investigation of the movement patterns and biosecurity practices on Thoroughbred and Standardbred stud farms in New Zealand. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, doi 10.1016/ j.prevetmed.2012.08.003
22. Royston, P, Ambler, G and Sauerbrei, W. 1999. The use of fractional polynomials to model continuous risk variables in epidemiology. International Journal of Epidemiology, 28: 964 - 74. (doi:10.1093/ije/28.5.964)
23. Sanson, R L. 2005. A survey to investigate movements off sheep and cattle farms in New Zealand, with reference to the potential transmission of foot-and-mouth disease. New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 53: 223 - 33. (doi:10.1080/00480169.2005.36550)
24. Sluyter, F JH. 2001. Traceability of equidae: a population in motion. OIE Revue Scientifique et Technique, 20: 500 - 9.
25. Stevens, D L and Olsen, A R. 2003. Variance estimation for spatially balanced samples of environmental resources. Environmetrics, 14: 593 - 610. (doi:10.1002/env.606)
26. Stevens, D L and Olsen, A R. 2004. Spatially balanced sampling of natural resources. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99 (262)
27. Stevenson, M A, Nunes, T, Sanchez, J and Thornton, R. 2009. epiR: Functions for analysing epidemiological data. R package version 0.9-22
28. USDA. 2006. Equine 2005, Part I: Baseline Reference of Equine Health and Management, APHIS, VS: USDA. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/equine/index.shtml. (accessed 25 August 2010)
29. Vanderman, K S, Swinker, A M, Gill, B E, Radhakrishna, R B, Kniffen, D M, Staniar, W B, McKernan, H B and Miller, R C. 2009. Survey on the implementation of national equine identification in the United States. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 29: 819 - 22. (doi:10.1016/j.jevs.2009.10.014)
30. Yan, T and Curtin, R. 2010. The relation between unit nonresponse and item nonresponse: a response continuum perspective. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22: 535 - 51. (doi:10.1093/ijpor/edq037)