Design and implementation of a collaborative epidemiological surveillance system form aquaculture (VECA)

Muniesa, Ana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Ruiz Zarzuela, Imanol (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Blas, Ignacio de (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Syndromic surveillance and participatory epidemiology are nowadays taking partin the public health system because they can be very interesting tools to comple-ment the classical ones. Although syndromic surveillance could be nonspeci¿c, itis usually based on real-time data analysis to provide early warnings. Participatory Epidemiology can bring us different and interesting approaches that we can useto better understand the problem. VECA implements an epidemiological surveil-lance system, validated by experts and users, which allows collecting real-timeinformation of each facility on production data, origin of animals, environmental parameters, disease status and therapeutic and prophylactic measures. Based onthe data collected, the results of preliminary epidemiological analyses have beenselected to design the most relevant indexes, which will set different levels ofhealth warning, to help those responsible for aquatic animal health and producersto make the right decisions. The platform can be used by owners or those respon-sible of farms who wish to collaborate in the development of this system of epi-demiological alert and to prevent future diseases that cause incalculable losses inthe sector.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1111/raq.12165

Año: 2018

Publicado en: REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE 10, 2 (2018), 370-375
ISSN: 1753-5123

Factor impacto JCR: 7.19 (2018)

Categ. JCR: FISHERIES rank: 1 / 52 = 0.019 (2018) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.394 - Aquatic Science (Q1) - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (Q1) - Ecology (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/A35

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Sanidad Animal (Dpto. Patología Animal)