Suitability of sentinel abattoirs for syndromic surveillance using provincially inspected bovine abattoir condemnation data

摘要

BackgroundSentinel surveillance has previously been used to monitor and identify disease outbreaks in both human and animal contexts. Three approaches for the selection of sentinel sites are proposed and evaluated regarding their ability to capture overall respiratory disease trends using provincial abattoir condemnation data from all abattoirs open throughout the study for use in a sentinel syndromic surveillance system.