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Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology & Economics : 18-22 November 1985, Singapore /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Singapore, Singapore Veterinary Association, International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Singapore Veterinary Association, [1986]
Subjects:
Communicable diseases.
Veterinary epidemiology > Congresses.
Communicable diseases in animals > Economic aspects > Congresses.
Communicable diseases in animals > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Veterinary medicine > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Animal Diseases > epidemiology.
Animal Diseases > economics.
Communicable Diseases > veterinary.
Communicable Disease Control > veterinary.
Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Welcoming remarks
  • Opening address
  • The role of clinicians and epidemiologists in the welfare of food animals - perspectives and interactions
  • The computer as a tool in epidemiological studies - an appraisal of trends
  • Epidemiological use of routinely collected veterinary data: risks and benefits
  • Analysis and casual interpretation of biologic data: a sero-epidemiologic study of respiratory disease
  • The environmental impact on the aetiology of infectious diseases
  • The use and abuse of economic methods, as applied to veterinary problems
  • Promotion of epidemiology and economics in veterinary education
  • The social and economic impact of the zoonoses in Latin America and the Carribean
  • The importance of feasibility and pilot studies in planning and application of disease control programmes
  • Veterinary disease information systems
  • Constraints to animal health projects in developing countries
  • The epidemiology and control of foot-and-mouth disease in the ASEAN region
  • The epidemiological uses of remote sensing and satellites
  • Veterinary involvement in integrated livestock projects
  • Expanding the responsibilities of the veterinarian
  • Beef feedlot - an attractive investment in Malaysia
  • Analysis of time of initial occurrence of selected health problems
  • Brucellosis herd breakdown analysis: its importance in the later stages of an eradication campaign
  • Culling rate in swine breeding herds: association with management practices
  • Factors that influence litter size in parity one sows
  • Factors that influence litter size in parity two sows
  • Preliminary study on management factors associated with mastitis and milk production losses in small holder, hand milking dairy farms in Central Java, Indonesia
  • Weight gain and associated factors in cattle on the north coast of Colombia: results of a survey
  • Field study of environmental parameters associated with bovine pneumonia
  • Relative profitability of native and improved pastures in the dry monsoonal areas of Northern Australia
  • The association between water source and composition and milk production, and health status of dairy cows
  • The epidemiological analysis of cereobiogen efficacy for diarrhoea control in lambs, piglets and chickens
  • Environmental factors in leptospiral infections
  • Utilization of a working serum bank
  • Disease control and prevention at a horse research centre
  • Footrot control over a large geographic area
  • The development of laboratory supported disease investigation systems in developing countries: the Indonesian experience
  • Some animal disease control in China
  • Translocation of N'Dama cattle from Gambia to Nigeria: the lesson of a case study
  • A research cum action strategy for control of foot-and-mouth disease in India
  • Control of contagious equine metritis in Sweden
  • Animal health management in Columbia
  • Evaluation of herd characteristics and management practices in eradication of brucellosis
  • Low dose adult strain 19 vaccination for brucellosis: an alternative to the depopulation of a large dairy herd
  • A retrospective epidemiological study of rabies in animals and man in central Sumatera, Indonesia
  • Epidemiology of leukotic tumors in a population of adult dairy cattle with a low prevalence of BLV-infection
  • The epidemiology of fascioliasis on Bali cattle and the economic aspect of fasciolicide treatments on the traditionally reared cattle
  • Epidemiological aspects of the control and prevention of malignant catarrhal fever in Indonesia
  • Incidence rates of hog cholera infection in various categories of pig herds
  • Tuberculosis in Toukh-Tanbisha, Menufia, Egypt
  • The assessment of the efficiency of cattle production
  • Techniques used to assess economic, landscape and epidemiological factors affecting the eradication of bovine tuberculosis
  • An economic approach to tuberculosis control in cattle given a wildlife reservoir of the disease
  • Modelling the benefits and costs of rinderpest control programme in Nigerian nomadic herds
  • Human rotavirus infection in gnotobiotic piglets: cross protection studies
  • PIGMONEY: application of electronic spreadsheet in the economics of pig production
  • ORACLE: predicting performance in dairy and swine herds
  • Epidemiologic modelling: a practical approach to understanding complex problems
  • A dictionary of veterinary epidemiology
  • A simulation model of the epidemiology of rinderpest
  • The use of decision analysis to determine the value of laboratory services to farmers
  • Decision analysis for optimising the calving interval in large scale California dairies
  • Human and animal rotavirus infections in China
  • Study on etiology of "lumber paralysis" in horses, sheep and goats
  • Identification by transfer blot of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis antigens reactive in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa)
  • The virulence of Mycoplasma iowae for newly hatched poults following oral challenge
  • Isoelectrofocussing: a tool for FMDV epidemiology in South-East Asia
  • Study on the biological characteristics of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated at Fujian
  • The effect of haemoparasite infections on weight gain in calves
  • Ovine streptococcosis
  • Some aspects of the epidemiology and economics of important diseases of large ruminants in Indonesia
  • Evaluating economic and epidemiologic data from farms involved in disease surveillance in the US
  • Process design and economic evaluation for SCP-production from Bagasse
  • An economic evaluation of vibriosis vaccination of rainbow trout reared in Swedish brackish water net-pen farms
  • Losses from ovine dermatophilosis
  • Economic considerations related to infertility in smallholder dairy cattle in Malaysia
  • A benefit-cost analysis of the New Zealand sheep measles control programme
  • Economic impact of alternative Johne's disease management control strategies - a simulation approach
  • A benefit-cost analysis of the program to eradicate an outbreak of anaplasmosis in Canada
  • Screw-worm eradication in Mexico
  • The eradication of footrot in sheep
  • The eradication of serious animal diseases/zoonoses in Cyprus - echinococcosis, brucellosis and anthrax
  • Veterinary epidemiology in Thailand
  • Comments on the current rinderpest campaign
  • Impact of African Swine Fever in Brazil: a retrospective view
  • New OIE information reporting system
  • The development of an animal disease information system
  • A coding system of diagnoses for computerized data base
  • Planning for surveillance systems in the new California veterinary diagnostic laboratory
  • The use of abattoir condemnation data in a pig herd health programme
  • Surveillance for bovine tuberculosis: the efficiency of an abattoir traceback system
  • Abattoir data as a source of epidemiological information: a neglected resource
  • SNOVET/EPIVET - standardising nomenclature
  • Domestic ducks as carriers of influenza A virus
  • The epidemiology of bovine theileriosis in Zambia: results of a longitudinal field study in Southern Province
  • Foot and mouth disease virus type distribution in India
  • The emergence of haemorrhagic septicaemia as a disease of economic importance in Zambia
  • Drug resistant trypanosome species: a serious handicap to livestock industry in Ethiopia
  • The ecological fallacy: a problem in interpreting survey data
  • Non-response bias in results from a survey of dairy reproductive management practices
  • The use of data from single-herd disease outbreaks for epidemiological description
  • Implementation fo microcomputer packages in epidemiologic/economic evaluations of animal health programs
  • Estimating disease prevalence using a test with no false positives
  • A survey on the causes of culling sows and gilts in some pig farms of Luzon
  • Relationship of farm managers' attitudes and management practices to herd lactational health problem incidence rates
  • Factors influencing the control of Newcastle Disease in indigenous chickens in Indonesia
  • Vaccination of village chickens against Newcastle Disease
  • Evaluation of a dairy cattle leptospirosis vaccination awareness campaign for dairy farmers
  • Veterinary epidemiology and economics in the undergraduate curriculum
  • A case control study of environmental and managerial factors in the Danish National Mastitis Control Program
  • Workshop on monitoring change in pastoral livestock systems
  • Workshop paper on the development of China's livestock breeding and its problems
  • The use of livestock market surveys for monitoring pastoral livestock production systems in the Sahel
  • Concluding summary