Impact of Imperfect Disease Detection on the Identification of Risk Factors in Veterinary Epidemiology

Risk factors are key epidemiological concepts that are used to explain disease distributions. Identifying disease risk factors is generally done by comparing the characteristics of diseased and non-diseased populations. However, imperfect disease detectability generates disease observations that do...

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Main Authors: Lisa Combelles, Fabien Corbiere, Didier Calavas, Anne Bronner, Viviane Hénaux, Timothée Vergne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2019.00066/full