That list was never meant to be inclusive, but rather to be a good introduction to current thoughts/issues in disease surveillance. If you have any suggestions to add other articles, please contact us.

• Zepeda et al., 2001. International trade, animal health and veterinary epidemiology: challenges and opportunities. Prev Vet Med 48, 261-271 

Analysis of the interactions between international trade of animals (and animal products) and epidemiology

• Doherr et al., 2001. Monitoring and surveillance for rare health-related events: a review from the veterinary perspective. Phil Trans R Soc Lond Biological Sciences 356, No. 1411, pp. 1097-1106

Discussion of methodologies related to veterinary disease monitoring and surveillance

• Thurmond, 2003. Conceptual foundations for infectious disease surveillance. J Vet Diagn Invest 15, 501

Concepts for developing infectious disease surveillance systems

• Racloz et al., 2007. Sentinel surveillance systems with special focus on vector-borne diseases. A Health Res Reviews 7(1/2), 71-79

Review of the strengths and weaknesses of sentinel herd surveillance systems

• Zepeda et al., 2005. The role of veterinary epidemiology and veterinary services in complying with the World Trade Organization SPS agreement. Prev Vet Med 67, 125–140

Analysis of implications of SPS agreement to epidemiology and economics

• Hendrikx et al., 2011. OASIS: an assessment tool of epidemiological surveillance systems in animal health and food safety. Epidemiol Infect. Mar 9: 1-11 

Reviews existing tools and develops standardized tool for the assessment of surveillance systems

• Robertson et al., 2010. Review of methods for space–time disease surveillance. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 1: 105-116

A review of methods for analysis of space–time disease surveillance data

• Audige et al., 1999. A quantitative assessment of the validity of animal-health surveys using stochastic modeling. Prev Vet Med 38, 259-276.

A stochastic simulation model to evaluate surveys

• Dorea et al., 2011. Veterinary syndromic surveillance: current initiatives and approaches. Prev Vet Med. 101, 1-17

Comprehensive review of veterinary syndromic surveillance programs

• Halliday et al., 2007. A framework for evaluating animals as sentinels for infectious disease surveillance.  J R Soc Interface 4, 973-984

A framework for how animal sentinels may be used to address surveillance questions

• Hadorn, D.C. and K Stark, 2008. Evaluation and optimization of surveillance systems for rare and emerging infectious diseases. Vet Res 39:57

Approach for the  optimization of surveillance systems using scenario tree modeling

• Hohle et al., 2009. Statistical approaches to the monitoring and surveillance of infectious diseases for veterinary public health. Prev Vet Med 91, 2-10.

Statistical methodology for surveillance of routinely collected data in veterinary public health

• Perry et al., 2001. Can epidemiology and economics make a meaningful contribution to national animal-disease control? Prev Vet Med 48, 231-260.

The role of veterinary epidemiology and economics in national animal-disease control

• Witt et al., 2011. The AFHSC-Division of GEIS Operations Predictive Surveillance Program: a multidisciplinary approach for the early detection and response to disease outbreaks. BMC Public Health  11(Suppl 2), S10

Multidisciplinary predictive surveillance program for public health

• Keller et al., 2009. Use of unstructured event-based reports for global infectious disease surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis 15(5), 689-695

Public health surveillance systems that use event-based information are described

• Audige et al. 2001. Stochastic modelling as a tool for planning animal-health surveys and interpreting screening-test results. Prev Vet Med 49, 1-17

• Kuiken et al. 2005. Pathogen surveillance in animals. Science  309, No. 5741 pp.1680-1681

• Pearce et al. 2008. Comparison of three methods of surveillance with application to the detection of Johne’s disease seropositivity in Texas cattle. Prev Vet Med 86, 1–7

• Rabinowitz et al. 2006. Animals as sentinels of bioterrorism agents. Emerg Infect Dis 12 (4) 647-652.

• Salman. 2004. Controlling emerging diseases in the 21^st century. Prev Vet Med 62, 177-184.