Por favor, use este identificador para citar o enlazar a este item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/61180
COMPARTIR / EXPORTAR:
SHARE CORE BASE | |
Visualizar otros formatos: MARC | Dublin Core | RDF | ORE | MODS | METS | DIDL | DATACITE | |
Título: | Estimation of European wild boar relative abundance and aggregation: A novel method in epidemiological risk assessment |
Autor: | Acevedo, Pelayo CSIC ORCID ; Vicente, Joaquín CSIC ORCID ; Höfle, Ursula CSIC ORCID; Cassinello, Jorge CSIC ORCID; Ruiz-Fons, Francisco CSIC ORCID ; Gortázar, Christian CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2007 | Editor: | Cambridge University Press | Citación: | Epidemiology and Infection 135: 519- 527 (2007) | Resumen: | Wild boars are important disease reservoirs. It is well known that abundance estimates are needed in wildlife epidemiology, but the expense and effort required to obtain them is prohibitive. We evaluated a simple method based on the frequency of faecal droppings found on transects (FBII), and developed a spatial aggregation index, based on the runs test statistic. Estimates were compared with hunting data, and with porcine circovirus and Aujeszky's disease virus seroprevalences and Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and Metastrongylus spp. prevalence. The FBII and the aggregation index were correlated with the hunting index, but both of the former estimates correlated better than the latter with the disease prevalences. Hence, at least in habitats with high wild boar densities, the FBII combined with the aggregation index constitutes a cheap and reliable alternative for wild boar abundance estimation that can be used for epidemiological risk assessment, even outside the hunting season and in areas with no available data on hunting activities. © 2006 Cambridge University Press. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/61180 | DOI: | 10.1017/S0950268806007059 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1017/S0950268806007059 issn: 0950-2688 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | (IREC) Artículos |
Ficheros en este ítem:
Fichero | Descripción | Tamaño | Formato | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hofle_Epidemiology.pdf | 157,62 kB | Adobe PDF | Visualizar/Abrir |
CORE Recommender
PubMed Central
Citations
32
checked on 07-may-2024
SCOPUSTM
Citations
171
checked on 15-may-2024
WEB OF SCIENCETM
Citations
158
checked on 28-feb-2024
Page view(s)
356
checked on 18-may-2024
Download(s)
306
checked on 18-may-2024
Google ScholarTM
Check
Altmetric
Altmetric
Artículos relacionados:
NOTA: Los ítems de Digital.CSIC están protegidos por copyright, con todos los derechos reservados, a menos que se indique lo contrario.