Home Sweet Home: New Insights Into the Location of Equine Premises in France and Keeping Habits to Inform Health Prevention and Disease Surveillance.

epidemiological surveillance equine health monitoring holding keeper owner spatial location traceability

Journal

Frontiers in veterinary science
ISSN: 2297-1769
Titre abrégé: Front Vet Sci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101666658

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 28 04 2021
accepted: 19 07 2021
entrez: 9 9 2021
pubmed: 10 9 2021
medline: 10 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Identifying and tracking equines are key activities in equine health prevention. France is one of the few European countries with an operational centralized database that records information on equines, owners, and keepers but not on the location and keeping conditions of equines. The objective of our study was to collect information on keeping habits of equines and the relative location of a wide range of equines, owners, and keepers and discuss their implication for surveillance and control of outbreak improvement. A national email survey was conducted among the 1.9% of people registered as owners and 8.2% of people registered as keepers in the French national equine identification database having given their agreement to be contacted by email. It led to the collection of information from 728 owners, 121 keepers, and 2,669 owner-keepers. Most of them housed their equines in a single

Identifiants

pubmed: 34497841
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.701749
pmc: PMC8419474
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

701749

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Farchati, Merlin, Saussac, Dornier, Dhollande, Garon, Tapprest and Sala.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Halifa Farchati (H)

Laboratory for Animal Health in Normandy, Physiopathology and Epidemiology of Equine Diseases Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), Goustranville, France.
University of Lyon - Epidemiology and Support to Surveillance Unit, ANSES, Lyon, France.
Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, ABTE, Caen, France.

Aurelie Merlin (A)

Laboratory for Animal Health in Normandy, Physiopathology and Epidemiology of Equine Diseases Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), Goustranville, France.

Mathilde Saussac (M)

University of Lyon - Epidemiology and Support to Surveillance Unit, ANSES, Lyon, France.

Xavier Dornier (X)

French Horse and Riding Institute (IFCE), Pompadour, France.

Mathilde Dhollande (M)

French Horse and Riding Institute (IFCE), Pompadour, France.

David Garon (D)

Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, ABTE, Caen, France.

Jackie Tapprest (J)

Laboratory for Animal Health in Normandy, Physiopathology and Epidemiology of Equine Diseases Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), Goustranville, France.

Carole Sala (C)

University of Lyon - Epidemiology and Support to Surveillance Unit, ANSES, Lyon, France.

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