Manual of procedures for wildlife disease risk analysis / Stuart M. Jakob-Hoff, Stuart C. MacDiarmid, Caroline Lees...[and 3 others]; co-published by OIE and IUCN.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jakob-Hoff, Richard, Author.

MacDiarmid, Stuart C., Author.

Lees, Caroline (Population biologist), Author.

Contributor:

International Office of Epizootics, editor, edt.

IUCN Species Survival Commission, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals, Wild.

Animals--Diseases--transmission.

Animals.

Animals--Diseases--epidemiology.

Public health surveillance--methods.

Public health surveillance.

Environmental monitoring.

Risk assessment.

Communicable diseases--Transmission.

Communicable diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Animals, Wild.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OIE [Organisation Mondiale de la Santé Animale = World Organisation for Animal Health], ; [Gland, Switzerland] : IUCN, 2014.

Contents:

Inroduction

A brief history of disease risk analysis

Key concepts for wildlife disease risk analysis

Planning and conducting a wildlife disease risk analysis

Tools for wildlife disease risk analysis

Appendix 1: Sources of information for wildlife disease risk analysis

Appendix 2: Surveillance, monitoring and outbreak investigations as a source of information

Appendix 3: Screening tests: selection, interpretation, and sample size calculator

Appendix 4: Monte Carlo modelling for risk assessment

Appendix 5: A guide to planning a DRA workshop

Appendix 6: Evaluation planning

Appendix 7: Example wildlife DRA summaries

Appendix 8: DRA example: Mountain gorilla, using Stella[TM] software

Boxes

Figures

Tables

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Other Format:

Print version : Jakob-Hoff, Richard Manual of procedures for wildlife disease risk analysis

ISBN:

9789290449577