Table of Contents:
  • Welcoming address
  • Opening remarks
  • Health hazards and intensified animal productions
  • Back to the future: the animal health monitoring system - a political necessity being addressed in the United States
  • Modern methods of public health practice: exclusion of food-borne pathogens
  • Companion animal epidemiology: its contribution to human medicine
  • The economic analysis of livestock disease: the developing framework
  • Statistical analysis of life time data in the veterinary sciences
  • Teaching epidemiology in Alfort Veterinary School
  • The future of veterinary epidemiology and economics
  • Dairy heifer health management and growth programming in an intensive agricultural environment
  • Brucellosis of cattle in Nigeria: proposals for a control program under intensive and extensive husbandry systems
  • The prevalence of bovine dermatophilosis in Zambia
  • The influence of shearing and age on the incidence of caseous lymphadenitis in Australian sheep flocks
  • Incidence of Trypanosoma vivax infection on three cattle farms on the north coast of Colombia
  • Seroconversion rates to Bovine Leukosis virus, Bluetongue virus, leptospira hardjo, and Anaplasma marginale infections in a random series of Louisiana beef cattle
  • The application of a computerised recording system to smallholder dairy extension in Malaysia
  • Reason-specific culling of Holstein cows
  • Bovine mastitis: human and management factors, associations with milk yield and milk quality
  • Factors associated with the levels of immunoglobulin in colostrum of cows and serum of their new-born calves
  • Relationship of body condition score and changes in condition score with health, reproductive performance and productivity in New York Hostein dairy herds
  • Peste des petits ruminants and cost effectiveness of its prevention in Niger
  • Toward developing an instrument for measuring milking management practices
  • Management factors affecting the prevalence of brucellosis in traditionally managed cattle herds in northern Colombia
  • Epidemiological research of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Portugal: the role of vectors and virus reservoirs
  • Epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in northern Australia
  • Factors associated with transmission of bovine leukemia virus in cows on a California dairy
  • Using individual somatic cell counts to help diagnose herd mastitis problems
  • A study of subclinical paratuberculosis in three central Ohio dairy herds: fecal culture, serologic testing and milk production
  • Field trials with Exhelm (morantel tartrate) and vitamin A in sheep in Niger
  • Losses due to Marek's Disease in hybrids of heavy breeds of fowl in Yugoslavia
  • Epidemiologic technology transfer from rich areas of the world to poor areas
  • The eradication of Aujeszky's disease in the Netherlands
  • A study of the transmission of bovine virus diarrhoea virus between and within cattle herds
  • Multifactorial analysis of return to oestrus and low litter size in the sow
  • Risk factors for the disorders of the mammary gland in dairy cattle
  • The epidemiology of dermatophilosis in sheep in western Australia
  • The French national network of epidemiologcal surveillance of bovine diseases
  • Bacteria in milk of cows at freshening associated with subsequent risk of mastitis and culling
  • Epidmiological study of lamb mortality in Morocco 1984-1986
  • Environmental and behavioural factors affecting the prevalence of lameness in New Zealand dairy herds - a case-control study
  • The National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS): progression from a pilot project to a national program
  • Development of animal disease data bank in Malaysia
  • The impact of a computerised dairy information system on large dairy farms in Malaysia
  • Causes of death found in an epidemiological study of native chickens in Thai villages
  • Fecal culture of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in cattle using a centrifugation specimen processing step
  • An epidemiological study of paratuberculosis in Ontario dairy cattle: study design and lipoarabinomannan antigen ELISA test results
  • Surveillance for brucellosis using a skin test of low sensitivity
  • The Western Australian Pig Health Monitoring Scheme
  • Herd health and reproduction data in smaller dairy herds - computer assisted representation and analysis
  • The California turkey project
  • Association of management with disease incidence rates in Colorado beef herds
  • Users and uses of the United States National Animal Health Monitoring System data: the Michigan example
  • Assessing the repeatability of questionnaire data from dairy farms
  • Bench-mark: a beef cow-calf production and health monitoring system
  • The use of geographical information systems in estimating East coast fever risk to African livestock
  • Dairy herd health programmes in Sweden - indicators of subclinical diseases and predisposing factors
  • Epidemiology of brucellosis in smallholder cattle herds in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
  • A prospective evaluation of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and Agar Gel Immunodiffusion test (AGID) relative to fecal culture in the diagnosis of clinical and subclinical paratuberculosis in cattle in central Ohio
  • APHIN - Animal Productivity and Health Information Network
  • Disease monitoring using a computerised information retrieval system for broiler production data: the effects of subclinical infectious bursal disease
  • Chronic pleurisy in pigs: the relationship between weight, age and frequency in three conventional herds
  • Relevance in epidemiology of infectious diseases of a rapid immunofluorescence technique for diagnosis: preliminary works about acute viral respiratory problems in fattening pigs
  • Remote recognition of Amblyomma variegatum habitats in Guadeloupe using Landsat-TM imagery
  • The National Swedish Animal Disease Recording System
  • Swine ascariasis: impact on production and abattoir surveillance
  • Poultry health surveillance using routinely collected production data
  • Descriptive analysis of diagnostic test results of quarantined pigs and cattle imported into the People's Republic of China from the United States
  • The sero-epidemiology of bovine leptospirosis in a densely populated cattle area: preliminary findings
  • Interrelationships of vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli infections of humans and animals
  • Effect of pH, NaCl, temperature and time of incubation on the probability of Vibrio parahaemolyticus growth initiation in a model broth
  • A risk assessment approach to the evaluation of post mortem meat inspection procedures for ovine thysanosomiasis
  • The companion animal as a sentinel for environmenatally related human diseases
  • A risk assessment approach to evaluation of organoleptic post mortem meat inspection procedures
  • Caught in the causal web: analytical problems in the epidemiology of zoonoses
  • The occurrence and variation of organochlorine pesticide residues detected in Australian livestock at slaughter
  • Studies on the delivery of oral rabies vaccines to wildlife and dog populations
  • The prevalence of leptospirosis and its association with multifocal interstitial nephritis in swine at slaughter
  • Epidemiological evaluation of the salmonella-controlling effect of a nationwide use of competitive exclusion culture in poultry
  • The epidemiology and control of rabies in South Africa
  • An epidemiological investigation of farms with Potomac horse fever (equine monocytic ehrlichiosis)
  • An epidemiological investigation of pet ownership in South Central Ontario, Canada
  • The effect of sampling associated disturbances on physiological responses of field-tested rainbow trout
  • Development and validation of multivariable models to predict the need for surgery and progonsis in equine colic patients
  • Epidemiology of salmonellosis in dogs - a conceptual model
  • The application of advanced molecular techniques to investigate epizootics of infectious disease in the equine population
  • Epidemiological studies of musculoskeletal racing and training injuries in thoroughbred horses, Minnesota, USA
  • Conceptual affinities in veterinary epidemiology and economics
  • Epidemiological and economic evaluation of foot-and-mouth disease control strategies, using a Markov chain spreadsheet model
  • Use of statistical modelling and decision analysis to estimate financial losses due to dystocia and other diseases in Swedish cattle
  • Dynamic programming approach to evaluating the ecnomic impact of disease on production
  • Evaluating the national impact of food animal diseases
  • Consequences for swine farm income of depopulation as a disease control measure
  • Effective use of slaughter checks to determine ecnomic losses from morbidity in swine
  • The financial cost of bovine dermatophilosis in Zambia
  • Benefit-cost analysis for a brucellosis control program in Nigeria
  • Repeated measurements, a problem in animal health economics
  • Using simulation modeling to assess the benefit of lactational therapy for subclinical streptococcus agalactiae mastitis
  • Study of the effectiveness of the department's health management plan for dairy herds
  • Economic impact of the use of prostaglandin to induce estrus in dairy cows
  • Persistence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in relation to the economic environment
  • Economical losses associated with nematode infections in cattle
  • The economics of trypanosomiasis control in Western Zambia
  • Economic analysis of the development and usage of thermoresistant rinderpest vaccine
  • Economic value of vitamin A and exhelm (morantel tartrate) in sheep in Niger
  • A model for the epidemiological and economic evaluation of Newcastle disease of village poultry in South-East Asia and its control using heat tolerant V4 vaccine
  • Economic losses due to enzootic broncho-pneumonia of stock cattle in fattening on farms in Yugoslavia
  • Estimation of direct and indirect losses due to Johnes disease in New South Wales, Australia
  • Economic impact of urogenital diseases in the gilt: the use of portfolio theory to minimize economic risk associated with post-epidemic breeding management
  • Analytical models of the national herd: factors controlling calf-mortality and their effects on the rural economy
  • An economic analysis of foot and mouth disease control policy options - problems and opportunities
  • A cost effectiveness study on the vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • The use of survival analysis to quantitate days open: advantages and applications
  • A Cox regression analysis of risk factors related to Mycoplasma suipneumoniae reinfection in Danish SPF-herds
  • Computational epidemiology - new research avenues
  • Evaluation of alternatives for calculating clinical mastitis prevalence and incidence from prospective animal health monitoring schemes
  • Statistical analysis of binary data from matched designs that require multiple observations on the same herd, litter or animal
  • An application of multi-objective linear programming for achievement of breeding goals in herd health programs
  • Behavior of the Breslow-Storer model in a prospective study on retained placenta in dairy cows
  • Impact of the analytical treatment of explanatory variables on the explanatory/response relationship
  • The analysis of individual animal risk for animals sampled in clusters
  • The enigma of herd: a comparison of different models to account for group effects in multiple logistic regression analysis
  • Potential benefits of computerized support for culling decisions in dairy herds, assessed by stochastic simulation
  • Path analysis using logistic regression: interpretational and methodologic issues
  • Influence of management factors on the occurrence of antibiotic residues in milk: a case-control study in Michigan dairy herds, with examples of suspected information bias
  • Simple mathematical modelling of brucellosis in Portuguese dairy herds
  • An expert system program for diagnosing reproductive problems in seasonal dairy herds
  • The use of intervention analysis in disease control and eradication program evaluation: California's brucellosis eradication campaign
  • Replacement of missing values in time series data by Kalman smoothed estimators using state-space modeling
  • The analysis of variance adjustment to chi-square tests when there is litter or herd correlation in surveys or field trials
  • Grounded theory - collection and analysis of qualitative data in a preliminary research investigation
  • Examining the impact of different health levels and management strategies on dairy heifer production through computer simulation
  • Economic considerations of public disease control for public and private veterinary practitioners
  • Veterinary clinical research: a survey of epidemiologic study designs and clinical issues appearing in a practice journal
  • Multilevel training activities in veterinary epidemiology and economics in developing countries
  • The international roles of VEERU and PLS - limited at Reading University, England
  • Problem definition in ruminant farming systems in West Java, Indonesia
  • Why sheep die during sea-transport
  • Application of simulation modelling and decision theory for clinical trial analyses: reproductive management in a commercial dairy
  • Periodic surveys with stratified random samples of herds: tools for a national animal disease information system, preliminary study in dairy herds
  • A new method for the detection of Sarcocystis spp. in sheep carcases
  • The acceptance of a parasite control program for swamp buffalo and cattle by village farmers in Thailand
  • Managerial factors associated with disease seropositivity: a study of trichinosis in North Carolina
  • Field studies on Trypanosoma evansi infection in water buffaloes in Java, Indonesia
  • Parity-specific production values for 68 North American swine breeding herds
  • Production values and correlations between production, productivity and population factors in 68 North American swine breeding herds
  • Strategic resource allocation in the implementation of an African Swine Fever (ASF) eradication program
  • Epidemiologic investigation and control of a winter anaplasmosis outbreak in Illinois
  • SUIPLAN: a physical and financial model of pig farms
  • OVISERRA: a computerized herd management system for dairy ewes
  • VVV, a cattle farm planning program
  • PC-software programs developed at VEERU and PLS-limited, Reading University, England
  • A feed planning tool for dairy herds
  • Epi info - a computer program for epidemiology
  • Decision-tree analysis using a microcomputer
  • ORACLE computer programmes for economic decision making on health and management in livestock herds
  • Data set generator - producing data for use in epidemiology training programs
  • Development and use of an economic worksheet to assess reproductive health programs in dairy production medicine practice
  • EPIDEMO - a spreadsheet model for teaching epidemiology
  • Spreadsheet program for monitoring status of health, productivity and economy
  • Micro-dairyCHAMP: a computerized dairy record system for use in epidemiological studies
  • Appendices