A5020752680- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Public Health Policies and Education
Animal and Plant Health Agency
2017-2025
University of Bern
2014-2017
Swedish Veterinary Agency
2017
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
2016
Public Health Institute
2014-2015
Imperial College London
2011-2013
Université de Limoges
2013
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2010-2011
University of Glasgow
2006-2011
University of Oxford
2010-2011
Human and livestock diseases can be difficult to control where infection persists in wildlife populations. Control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) British cattle is complicated by the maintenance Mycobacterium bovis (the causative agent bTB) badgers, acting as reservoirs infection. Although over 20 000 badgers were culled bTB between 1975 1997, incidence has substantially increased parts Great Britain recent decades. Our case-control study, involving 1208 herds, provides further evidence...
ObjectivesWe present the results of a 2005 case–control study bovine tuberculosis (bTB) breakdowns in English and Welsh herds. The herd management, farming practices, environmental factors 401 matched pairs case control herds were investigated to provide picture herd-level risk areas varying bTB incidence.MethodsA global conditional logistic regression model, with region-specific variants, was used compare that had experienced confirmed breakdown contemporaneous on region, type, size, parish...
Summary Hepatitis E is considered an emerging human viral disease in industrialized countries. Studies from Switzerland report a seroprevalence of hepatitis virus ( HEV ) 2.6–21%, range lower than adjacent European The aim this study was to determine whether domestic pigs and wild boars also it increasing thus indicating that zoonotic infection emerging. Serum samples collected 2,001 2006 2011 303 2008 2012 were analysed by ELISA for the presence ‐specific antibodies. Overall 58.1% 12.5%...
We evaluated Swiss slaughterhouse data for integration in a national syndromic surveillance system the early detection of emerging diseases production animals. analysed meat inspection cattle, pigs and small ruminants slaughtered between 2007 2012 (including emergency slaughters sick/injured animals); investigating patterns number animals condemned; reasons invoked whole carcass condemnations; reporting biases regional effects. Whole condemnation rates were fairly uniform (1–2‰) over time...
Introduction: beekeeping is vital for pollinating crops and producing honey other bee products. Pests, however, play a detrimental role in beekeeping, causing extensive colony losses disrupting operations. Despite their adverse effects, information on pests Ghana lacking.
Controlling bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in livestock is often hindered by the presence of a wildlife reservoir, such as Eurasian badger UK and Ireland. Vaccinating badgers against bTB can reduce severity Mycobacterium bovis infection potential onwards transmission to cattle, other species, thus combined with population control might provide additional benefits (and reference models). To evaluate effects co-administration vaccine (BCG) contraceptive (GonaCon), captive were injected...
Animal health data recorded in free text, such as necropsy reports, can have valuable information for national surveillance systems. However, these are rarely utilized because the text format requires labor-intensive classification of records before they be analyzed with using statistical or other software. In a previous study, we designed text-mining tool to extract from reports. current used reports pig and cattle necropsies performed between 2000 2011 at Institute Pathology (ITPA),...
The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching 1998 Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) to evaluate effectiveness badger (Meles meles) culling as strategy. Our study complements previous analyses RBCT data (focusing treatment effects) by presenting herd-level risks factors associated with probability confirmed bTB breakdown herds within each treatment: repeated widespread proactive culling, localized reactive and...
In an era of ubiquitous electronic collection animal health data, multivariate surveillance systems (which concurrently monitor several data streams) should have a greater probability detecting disease events than univariate systems. However, despite their limitations, aberration detection algorithms are used in most active syndromic (SyS) because ease application and interpretation. On the other hand, stochastic modelling-based approach to offers more flexibility, allowing for retention...
Abstract The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia represent the world’s largest continuous extent afroalpine habitat. With a peak combined density over 8000 individuals/km2, endemic giant mole rat Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, Blick’s grass Arvicanthis blicki and brush-furred mouse Lophuromys melanonyx are dominant wild herbivores within this ecosystem may be affected by presence high densities domestic livestock. purpose study was to establish whether these rodent populations could respond removal...
Abstract The domestic and wild carnivore interface is complex, yet understudied. Interactions between species have important implications for direct interference competition, cross‐species transmission of shared pathogens conservation threats to carnivores. However, intraguild interactions are hard quantify. In this study, we asked 512 villagers residing around a area in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania, report on presence carnivores their village, number dogs Canis familiaris cats Felis...
Livestock inside the Bale Mountains National Park poses a threat to persistence of Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) through grazing-induced habitat degradation and transmission diseases from domestic dogs kept alongside herds. We used 21- year time series explore long-term trends in numbers cattle, caprines free-roaming two core areas (the Web valley Sanetti plateau) test whether seasonal variations primary productivity underlies current livestock production system. No were detected valley,...
SUMMARY West Nile virus (WNV) is a growing public health concern in Europe and there need to develop more efficient early detection systems. Nervous signs horses are considered be an indicator of WNV and, using them syndromic surveillance system, might relevant. In our study, we assessed whether or not data collected by the passive French system for equine diseases can used routinely WNV. We tested several pre-processing methods algorithms based on regression. evaluated performances...
Summary 1. Anticipating the consequences of, and sustainable limits to, human exploitation of ecosystem resources requires a quantitative understanding food web dynamics. While dynamic models are commonly used to investigate impact on marine structure dynamics, they less applied human‐induced disturbances in terrestrial webs. 2. The intensifying expanding use rangelands for domestic livestock production creates potential conflict with conservation extensive populations wildlife. Bale...
Population trends for commensal rodents are the subject of interest and speculation but accurate data rarely available. Here we report from a 15-year systematic survey rats mice in English dwellings present national-level estimates prevalence 1996-2010. We found evidence peaks inside around 2002 2008. Models containing twelve variables relating to dwelling local area explained some not all variation prevalence. Older dwellings, those rural areas, with litter, drainage faults pets or other...
Comprehensive reviews of syndromic surveillance in animal health have highlighted the hindrances to integration and interoperability among systems when data emerge from different sources. Discussions with experts fields public health, as well computer scientists field information management, led conclusion that a major component any solution will involve adoption ontologies. Here we describe advantages such an approach, steps taken set up Animal Health Surveillance Ontological (AHSO)...
Public health surveillance systems rely on the automated monitoring of large amounts text. While building a text mining system for veterinary syndromic surveillance, we exploit automatic and semi-automatic methods terminology construction at different stages. Our approaches include term extraction from free-text, grouping variants based string similarity, linking to an existing medical ontology.
GonaCon, a single-shot injectable immunocontraceptive vaccine targeting the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), has been tested in key mammal species UK and shown to be safe method reduce population size areas of high human wildlife conflict. Badgers exhibit an unusual reproductive physiology that females may maintain fertilised eggs dormant blastocysts at any time year delay their implantation until winter. It is thus necessary evaluate consequences delayed timing vaccination on...