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ArticleBMC veterinary research2020

Enhancing the monitoring of fallen stock at different hierarchical administrative levels: an illustration on dairy cattle from regions with distinct husbandry, demographical and climate traits.

Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, Pedro Puig, German Caceres, Luis Romero, Crawford Revie, Javier Sanchez, Fernanda C Dorea, Ana Alba-Casals

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Article in BMC veterinary research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Amanda Fernández-FonteloChair of Statistics, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. amanda.fernandez-fontelo@hu-berlin.de.
Pedro PuigDepartament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
German CaceresSubdirección General de Sanidad e Higiene Animal y Trazabilidad. Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación (MAPA), Madrid, Spain.
Luis RomeroSubdirección General de Sanidad e Higiene Animal y Trazabilidad. Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación (MAPA), Madrid, Spain.
Crawford RevieCentre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research, AVC, University Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Charlottetown, Canada.
Javier SanchezCentre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research, AVC, University Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Charlottetown, Canada.
Fernanda C DoreaDepartment of Disease Control and Epidemiology, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala, Sweden.
Ana Alba-CasalsDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA.
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación · ESUniversity of Prince Edward Island · CAHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DESwedish Veterinary Agency · SEUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESUniversity of Minnesota · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe automated collection of non-specific data from livestock, combined with techniques for data mining and time series analyses, facilitates the development of animal health syndromic surveillance (AHSyS). An example of AHSyS approach relates to the monitoring of bovine fallen stock. In order to enhance part of the machinery of a complete syndromic surveillance system, the present work developed a novel approach for modelling in near real time multiple mortality patterns at different hierarchical administrative levels. To illustrate its functionality, this system was applied to mortality data in dairy cattle collected across two Spanish regions with distinct demographical, husbandry, and climate conditions.

resultsThe process analyzed the patterns of weekly counts of fallen dairy cattle at different hierarchical administrative levels across two regions between Jan-2006 and Dec-2013 and predicted their respective expected counts between Jan-2014 and Jun- 2015. By comparing predicted to observed data, those counts of fallen dairy cattle that exceeded the upper limits of a conventional 95% predicted interval were identified as mortality peaks. This work proposes a dynamic system that combines hierarchical time series and autoregressive integrated moving average models (ARIMA). These ARIMA models also include trend and seasonality for describing profiles of weekly mortality and detecting aberrations at the region, province, and county levels (spatial aggregations). Software that fitted the model parameters was built using the R statistical packages.

conclusionsThe work builds a novel tool to monitor fallen stock data for different geographical aggregations and can serve as a means of generating early warning signals of a health problem. This approach can be adapted to other types of animal health data that share similar hierarchical structures.

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Animal HusbandryAnimalsCattleCattle DiseasesDairyingEpidemiological MonitoringModels, StatisticalPopulation SurveillanceSentinel SurveillanceSpainARIMA modelsDairy cattleFallen stockHierarchical time seriesSpainSyndromic surveillance

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