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Collaboration among multiple disciplines is key in One Health
Collaboration among people from multiple disciplines is key to the implementation of a One Health approach. Surveillance for infectious diseases is one aspect of health systems where such collaboration is essential. The design and implementation of surveillance draw...
Qualitative research methods should be included in the epidemiology toolkit
Qualitative research methods have the capacity to generate useful insights into complex causation of many of our major health issues and contribute to epidemiology. Research on this subject conducted by Ausvet's Senior Epidemiology Consultant, Dr Melanie...
Monitoring mortality data as a tool in the early detection of African Swine Fever
ASF is an infectious disease of swine causing major losses in the swine industry worldwide. Early detection of ASF is challenging because of the wide range of non‐specific clinical signs produced and its relatively low contagiousness. Monitoring pig mortality is a...
Between-farm water-borne pathogen dissemination and salmonid rickettsial septicaemia in Chile
The Ausvet team has just published a 5th article on the epidemiology of salmonid rickettsial septicaemia in Chile, based on work conducted with the Chilean government and salmon industry in the past few years. The article is freely available for download until...
Tackling disease and antibiotic usage in the Chilean salmon industry.
In the past few years, Ausvet has worked with government and industry in Chile to tackle one of the most important disease problems facing the Chilean salmon industry. Based on this work, an article entitled ‘Effectiveness of antimicrobial treatment of salmonid...
Community-based syndromic surveillance to support our COVID-19 response
We have recently uploaded a 4-minute video to talk about some of the benefits of community-based syndromic surveillance and the role it could have in supporting our decision-makers to make more reliable, timelier, evidence-based decisions during this pandemic....