Consumption of pork that is contaminated with "Salmonella" is an important source of human salmonellosis world wide. To control and prevent salmonellosis, Belgian pig-herds with high "Salmonella" infection burden are encouraged to take part in a control programme supporting the implementation of...

Quality control relies heavily on the use of formal assessment metrics. In this paper, for the context of veterinary epidemiology, we review the main proposals, precision, repeatability, reproducibility, and intermediate precision, in agreement with ISO (international Organization for...

In veterinary epidemiology, we are often confronted with hierarchical or clustered data. Typically animals are grouped within herds, and consequently we cannot ignore the possibility of animals within herds being more alike than between herds. Based on a serological survey of bovine herpes virus...