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16777252

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
We present a descriptive analysis of cattle movement information retrieved from the Argentinean animal movement database for two departments in the province of Buenos Aires during 2004. For each quarter of the year (January to March, April to June, July to September, and October to December) we report the number of on- and off-farm movement events for the purpose of finishing. Our analyses show that the distribution of the number of finishing-related movement events per farm was skewed, with the majority of farms reporting at least 1 and less than 5% of farms of reporting greater than 15 finishing related movement events throughout the year. The frequency of finishing-related movement events varied over time, with a 1.2-1.8-fold increase in reported movement events from April to September, compared with the rest of the year. These analyses indicate that cattle movement patterns in these departments are dependent on the relative mix of constituent cattle enterprise types. Departments with a mixture of breeding and finishing enterprises behave as potential recipients and distributors of infectious disease, whereas departments comprised of primarily finishing enterprises are predominantly recipients of infectious disease, rather than distributors. Data integrity audits of the Argentinean animal movement database, on a regular or intermittent basis, should allow the presence of bias in these data to be quantified in greater detail.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0167-5877
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
76
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
109-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
A description of cattle movements in two departments of Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
pubmed:affiliation
Unidad de Epidemiología, CICVyA-INTA, CC 25, 1712 Castelar, Argentina. eleon@cnia.inta.gov.ar
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article