Risk-targeted selection of agricultural holdings for post-epidemic surveillance: estimation of efficiency gains.

Current post-epidemic sero-surveillance uses random selection of animal holdings. A better strategy may be to estimate the benefits gained by sampling each farm and use this to target selection. In this study we estimate the probability of undiscovered infection for sheep farms in Devon after the 20...

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Main Authors: Ian G Handel, Barend M de C Bronsvoort, John F Forbes, Mark E J Woolhouse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3107858?pdf=render