Social network analysis of equidae movements and its application to risk-based surveillance and to control of spread of potential equidae diseases

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 448-459

  Sanchez Matamoros A ^a   Martinez Lopez B ^a   Sanchez Vizcaino F ^a   Sanchez Vizcaino J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Equidae movements; Risk based surveillance; Social network analysis; Spain; Spatio temporal cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EQUIDAE; EQUIDAE MOVEMENTS; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVESTOCK; RECREATION; RESEARCH; RISK-BASED SURVEILLANCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

EQUIDAE MOVEMENTS; RISK-BASED SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMERCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EQUIDAE; LIVESTOCK; RECREATION; RESEARCH; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPAIN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84883655869     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2012.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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