Veterinary cancer epidemiology

Veterinary Epidemiology - An Introduction

Learning Objectives At the completion of this topic, you will be able to: • understand the concepts of the interrelationships between Agent-Host-Environment, interaction of disease determinants, herd immunity, and web of causation. • use the terms utilised in infectious disease epidemiology such as infection, Challenges to Today's Veterinary Medicine Today, the veterinary profession is confront...

Use of molecular epidemiology in veterinary practice.

Molecular epidemiology is a relatively new branch of epidemiology that uses molecular biology methods to study health and disease in populations. This article gives an introduction to molecular epidemiologic terminology and methodology and its usefulness in large animal medicine and veterinary public health. Applications in source tracing and vaccine studies and insights into transmission dynam...

Spatio-temporal statistics: applications in epidemiology, veterinary medicine and ecology.

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of veterinary blastomycosis in Wisconsin

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that Blastomyces dermatitidis, the etiologic agent of blastomycosis, is a genetically diverse pathogen. Blastomycosis is a significant health issue in humans and other mammals. Veterinary and human isolates matched with epidemiological case data from the same geographic area and time period were used to determine: (i) if differences in genetic diversity and...

EPIZOO: software for veterinary epidemiology training and problem-solving.

Described is a computer software package, EPIZOO, which has been developed specifically for undergraduate and postgraduate education, self-training, problem-solving, and simulation studies in veterinary epidemiology. The program is based on action-oriented animal population health/disease analyses and programming. EPIZOO runs on IBM-compatible personal computers and can be used for any animal p...