Eleftherios Meletis, Beate Conrady, Petter Hopp, Thibaut Lurier, Jenny Frössling, Thomas Rosendal, Céline Faverjon, Luís Pedro Carmo, Jaka Jakob Hodnik, László Ózsvári, Polychronis Kostoulas, Gerdien van Schaik, Arianna Comin, Mirjam Nielen, Tanja Knific, Jana Schulz, Sabina Šerić-Haračić, Christine Fourichon, Inge Santman-Berends, Aurélien Madouasse
A wide variety of control and surveillance programmes that are designed and implemented based on country-specific conditions exists for infectious cattle diseases that are not regulated. This heterogeneity renders difficult the comparison of probabilities of freedom from infection estimated from collected surveillance data. The objectives of this review were to outline the methodological and epidemiological considerations for the estimation of probabilities of freedom from infection from surveillance information and review state-of-the-art methods estimating the probabilities of freedom from infection from heterogeneous surveillance data...
2024: Frontiers in Veterinary Science