A5078831006- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Parasitic infections in humans and animals
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
2021-2024
Danish Agriculture and Food Council
2019-2023
Society for Endocrinology
2019
Technical University of Denmark
2017-2018
University of Copenhagen
2012-2013
Utrecht University
2011
SARS-CoV-2 infection is the cause of COVID-19 in humans. In April 2020, farmed mink (Neovision vision) occurred Netherlands. The first outbreaks Denmark were detected June 2020 three farms. A steep increase number infected farms from September and onwards. Here, we describe prevalence data collected 215 to characterize spread impact disease one third farms, no clinical signs observed. with signs, decreased feed intake, increased mortality respiratory symptoms most frequently observed, during...
To forge a path towards livestock disease emergency preparedness in Denmark, 15 different strategies to mitigate foot-and-mouth (FMD) were examined by modelling epidemics initiated cattle, pig or small ruminant herds across various production systems located four Danish regions (Scenario 1), one specific system within each of the three species geographically distributed throughout Denmark 2). When additional mitigation implemented on top basic control European spread model (EuFMDiS), no...
Bovine cysticercosis (BC) is a zoonotic, parasitic infection in cattle. Under the current EU meat inspection regulation, every single carcass from all bovines above 6 weeks of age examined for BC. This method costly and makes more sense countries with higher number BC-infected animals than few lightly infected cases per year. The aim present case-control study was to quantify associations between potential herd-level risk factors BC Danish cattle herds. Risk can be used design risk-based...
The objective was to study how surveillance for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) could be made more resource-effective in a bTB free country. A stochastic scenario tree model developed to: (1) evaluate the sensitivity (CSe) of four system components (SSC) (i.e., meat inspection slaughtered domestic cattle, farmed deer and pigs, tuberculin testing adult export cattle) given that would enter one these components, (2) estimate probability freedom (PFree) from over time, (3) future alternative...
Design of surveillance programs to detect infections could benefit from more insight into sampling schemes. We address the effect schemes for Salmonella Enteritidis in laying hens. Based on experimental estimates transmission rate flocks, and characteristics an egg immunological test, we have simulated outbreaks with various schemes, current boot swab program a 15-week interval. Declaring flock infected based single positive was not possible because test specificity too low. Thus, threshold...
With the current trend in animal health surveillance toward risk-based designs and a gradual transition to output-based standards, greater flexibility design is both required allowed. However, increase requires more transparency regarding surveillance, its activities, implementation. Such allows stakeholders, trade partners, decision-makers risk assessors accurately interpret validity of outcomes. This paper presents first version Animal Health Surveillance Reporting Guidelines (AHSURED)...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) not only caused the COVID-19 pandemic but also had a major impact on farmed mink production in several European countries. In Denmark, entire population of (over 15 million animals) was culled late 2020. During period June to November 2020, 290 farms (out about 1100 country) were shown be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Genome sequencing identified changes virus within and it is estimated that 4000 people Denmark became these...