A5061886207- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Global Health Care Issues
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Data Analysis with R
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Veterinary Equine Medical Research
Swedish Veterinary Agency
2023-2024
University of California, Davis
2014-2022
Universitat Politècnica de València
2013
The death toll and economic loss resulting from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic are stark reminders that we vulnerable to zoonotic viral threats. Strategies needed identify characterize animal viruses pose greatest risk of spillover spread in humans inform public health interventions. Using expert opinion scientific evidence, identified host, viral, environmental factors contributing virus humans. We then developed a ranking framework interactive web...
Schmallenberg disease is an emerging that affects domestic and wild ruminants in Europe. An epidemiological survey was carried out to assess exposure virus (SBV) artiodactyls Spain between 2006 2015. A total of 1751 sera from artiodactyls, including 1066 red deer, 304 fallow 192 mouflon, 109 boar, 49 roe deer 31 Spanish ibex were tested for antibodies against SBV by ELISA confirmed neutralization test. not detected the 2006/2007 2010/2011 hunting seasons. Overall seroprevalence (including...
Livestock farmers are being increasingly encouraged to adopt digital health technologies on their farms. Digital innovations may have unintended consequences, but there tends be a pro-innovation bias in previous literature. This has led movement towards "responsible innovation," an approach that questions the social and ethical challenges of research innovation. paper explores issues data Swedish dairy pig farms from critical perspective.Six focus groups were conducted with thirteen farmers....
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) is a viral disease affecting various species, with potential implications for animal health, welfare, and agricultural productivity. We conducted systematic literature review (SLR) to comprehensively collect the documented scientific knowledge on reported natural infections, experimental diagnostic test evaluations in animals affected by EHD. Additionally, we investigated availability of vaccines EHD prevention hosts, as well existing tests aimed at...
Based on the 2016 National Cattlemen's Beef Association statistics, cattle inventory in US reached 93.5 million head, from which 30.5 were commercial slaughter 2016. California ranked fourth among all states that raise and calves, with 5.15 head approximately 1.18 slaughtered animals per year. Approximately 0.5% of carcasses are condemned each year, has an important economic impact producers.In this study, we first described compared temporal trends carcass condemnations Jan-2005 to...
Morbidity and mortality of young stock present economic production challenges to livestock producers globally. In Ethiopia, calf morbidity rates, particularly due diarrhea respiratory disease, are high, limiting production, incomes, the ability farmers improve their livelihoods. this paper, we findings from combined experience Young Stock Mortality Reduction Consortium, which conducted epidemiological intervention testing in calves across three systems. This innovative alliance identified...
Dairy cow lameness is an important health issue, with a negative impact in animal welfare and productivity. Lameness has been assessed using locomotion scoring (LS) system based on behaviors postures related to gait. However, LS evaluation time consuming task that not routinely performed large dairies. Implementation of methods for early detection are easily incorporated into management could increase the rate detection. The objective this study was evaluate intra-rater reliability among...
The Swedish National Veterinary Institute (SVA) is working on implementing reusable and adaptable workflows for epidemiological analysis dynamic report generation to improve disease surveillance. Important components of this work include: data access, development environment, computational resources cloud-based management. environment relies Git code collaboration version control the R language statistical computing visualization. include both local systems, with automatic managed in cloud....
Event Abstract Back to Can we use k-nearest neighbors classifier detect patterns in animal behavior associated with changes metritis status dairy cattle during postpartum? Gema Vidal1*, James Sharpnack2, I Ching Tsai3, Amanda R. Lee3, Pablo Pinedo4 and Beatriz Martínez-López1 1 Center for Animal Disease Modeling Surveillance, School of Veterinary Medicine, University California, Davis, United States 2 Department Statistics, 3 Food Sciences, College Of Agriculture, And Environment, Kentucky,...