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A study of helminth parasites in culled cows from IrelandT.M. Murphy, K.N. Fahy, A. McAuliffe, A.B. Forbes, T.A. Clegg and D.J. O’Brien . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Network analysis of Danish cattle industry trade patterns as an evaluation of risk potential for disease spreadM. Bigras-Poulin, R.A. Thompson, M. Chriel, S. Mortensen and M. Greiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Use of social network analysis to characterize the pattern of animal movements in the initial phases of the2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the UKA. Ortiz-Pelaez, D.U. Pfeiffer, R.J. Soares-Magalhães and F.J. Guitian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Bayesian estimation of sensitivity and specificity of serum ELISA and faecal culture for diagnosis ofparatuberculosis in Greek dairy sheep and goatsP. Kostoulas, L. Leontides, C. Enøe, C. Billinis, M. Florou and M. Sofia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

On distinguishing cause and consequence: Do high somatic cell counts lead to lower milk yield or doeshigh milk yield lead to lower somatic cell count?L.E. Green, Y.H. Schukken and M.J. Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Response of Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma congolense in zebu cattle in North Cameroon toprophylactic treatment with two formulations of isometamidiumD.N. Awa and C.N. Ndamkou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Persistence of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) in Scottish salmon (Salmo salar L.) farmsA.G. Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

A description of cattle movements in two departments of Buenos Aires province, ArgentinaE.A. León, M.A. Stevenson, S.J. Duffy, M. Ledesma and R.S. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Application of a semi-dependent latent model in the Bayesian estimation of the sensitivity and specificityof two faecal culture methods for diagnosis of paratuberculosis in sub-clinically infected Greekdairy sheep and goatsP. Kostoulas, L. Leontides, C. Billinis and M. Florou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Spatial spreading of Echinococcus multilocularis in Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) across nation borders inWestern EuropeM. Vervaeke, J. van der Giessen, B. Brochier, B. Losson, K. Jordaens, R. Verhagen,C. de Lezenne Coulander and P. Teunis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Simulation study to assess the efficiency of a test-and-cull scheme to control the spread of the bovineviral-diarrhoea virus in a dairy herdA.-F. Viet, C. Fourichon and H. Seegers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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A stochastic exposure assessment model to estimate vanadium intake by beef cattle used as sentinels forthe South African vanadium mining industryB. Gummow, W.F.A. Kirsten, R.J. Gummow and J.A.P. Heesterbeek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Causes of loss of Sonali chickens on smallholder households in BangladeshP.K. Biswas, G.M.N. Uddin, H. Barua, K. Roy, D. Biswas, A. Ahad and N.C. Debnath . . . . . . . . . 185

Educational intervention on dog sterilization and retention in TaiwanH.-Y. Weng, P.H. Kass, B.B. Chomel and L.A. Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Risk factors for udder edema and its association with lactation performance on primiparous Holsteincows in a large Florida herd, U.S.A.P. Melendez, C.C. Hofer and G.A. Donovan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Cattle transfers between herds under paratuberculosis surveillance in The Netherlands are not randomM.F. Weber, H.J.W. van Roermund, J.C.M. Vernooij, C.H.J. Kalis and J.A. Stegeman . . . . . . . . . . 222

Monensin might protect Ontario, Canada dairy cows from paratuberculosis milk-ELISA positivityS.H. Hendrick, T.F. Duffield, K.E. Leslie, K.D. Lissemore, M. Archambault, R. Bagg, P. Dick andD.F. Kelton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Herd-level risk factors for Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in U.S. market pigsP.B. Bahnson, P.J. Fedorka-Cray, S.R. Ladely and N.E. Mateus-Pinilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Prediction of human cases of West Nile virus by equine cases, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2003R.L.A. Corrigan, C. Waldner, T. Epp, J. Wright, S.M. Whitehead, H. Bangura, E. Young andH.G.G. Townsend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

A preliminary passive surveillance of clinical diseases of cart pulling camels in Faisalabad metropolis(Pakistan)G. Muhammad, A. Jabbar, Z. Iqbal, M. Athar and M. Saqib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Spatial distribution of foot-and-mouth disease in Pakistan estimated using imperfect dataA.M. Perez, M.C. Thurmond and T.E. Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Spatial hierarchical variances and age covariances for seroprevalence to Leptospira interrogans serovarhardjo, BoHV-1 and BVDV for cattle in the State of Paraíba, BrazilJ.A. Thompson, R. de Miranda Henriques Leite, V.S.P. Gonçalves, R.C. Leite, D.A. Bandeira,G.P. Herrmann, É.C. Moreira, P.E.F. Prado, Z.I.P. Lobato, C.P.T. de Brito and A.P. Lage . . . . . . . . 290

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