Last updated on 22-8-2019 by Anonymous (non vérifié)
Peer reviewed scientific article
SCIENSANO
Auteurs
Mintiens, K; Verloo, D; Venot, E; Laevens, H; Dufey, J; Dewulf, J; Boelaert, F; Pierre Kerkhofs; F. KoenenMots-clés
Résumé:
A report of the Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare of the European Commission (CEC, 1999.) includes recommendations for setting up monitoring programmes for classical swine fever (CSF) infection in a wild-boar population, based on the assumption that one would detect at least 5% prevalence in a CSF-infected wild-boar population. This assumption, however, is not science based. We propose an alternative method to provide evidence for a wild-boar population being free of CSF and evaluate the efficiency of a surveillance programme that was implemented in Belgium in 1998. I…