Vulnerability of the British swine industry to Classical Swine Fever

Classical swine fever (CSF) is a notifiable, highly contagious viral disease of swine which results in severe welfare and economic consequences (e.g. barrier to trade) in affected countries. In order to improve preparedness for disease incursion, it is critical to have some understanding of how vulnerable a CSF-free swine industry may be and, thus, evaluate how CSF would spread should it be introduced

Vulnerability of the British swine industry to Classical Swine Fever

Classical swine fever (CSF) is a notifiable, highly contagious viral disease of swine which results in severe welfare and economic consequences (e.g. barrier to trade) in affected countries. In order to improve preparedness for disease incursion, it is critical to have some understanding of how vulnerable a CSF-free swine industry may be and, thus, evaluate how CSF would spread should it be introduced.</p

The role of case proximity in transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in a highly endemic village in Bangladesh

Data collection containing: [1] Odds ratios for VL and asymptomatic infection risk based on proximity to infected individuals (S1 Table); [2] Definitions of model likelihood and deviance information criterion, and details of MCMC algorithm (S1 Text); [3] Data on visceral leishmaniasis status and leishmanin skin test status of 2494 individuals in the study area, including dates of onset, diagnosis, treatment, and, where applicable, relapse and treatment for relapse for 183 VL cases (S1 Data); [4] Matrix of pairwise distances between all individuals in the study (S2 Data); [5] Metadata for S1 and S2 Data (S3 Data); [6] Locations of VL cases in para 2 by year of onset, 1999-2004 (S1 Fig); [7] Locations of VL cases in para 3 by year of onset, 1999-2004 (S2 Fig); [8] Deviance distributions for the different models (S3 Fig