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This chapter reviews key issues in the design and implementation of disease surveillance systems in sheep populations. It assesses different types of surveillance and flock health objectives, data sources, testing and sampling techniques. The chapter also reviews sampling strategies, including epidemiological variables, as well as information dissemination.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date:
28 January 2026
ISBN: 9781835455777
Format: eBook
BISACs:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Surveillance and fock health objectives: globalanimal disease surveillance
- 3 Surveillance and fock health objectives: nationalanimal disease surveillance systems
- 4 Surveillance and fock health objectives: farm-levelfock health surveillance and fock health planning
- 5 Data sources for surveillance
- 6 Diagnosing disease: testing and sampling techniques
- 7 Types of surveillance
- 8 Sampling strategies for detection of disease as partof a surveillance system
- 9 Epidemiological variables to consider whenstructuring a surveillance system
- 10 Surveillance information dissemination andalternative ways of sharing and presenting data
- 11 Application of surveillance methods for exotic,emerging and endemic disease detection andcontrol
- 12 Conclusion and future trends
- 13 Where to look for further information
- 14 References