Sampling for disease absence—deriving informed monitoring from epidemic traits

Monitoring for disease requires subsets of the host population to be sampled and tested for the pathogen. If all the samples return healthy, what are the chances the disease was present but missed? In this paper, we developed a statistical approach to solve this problem considering the fundamental p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bourhis, Y., Gottwald, T., Lopez-Ruiz, Fran, Patarapuwadol, S., van den Bosch, F.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academic Press 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73209