Popular MeSH Terms: Communicable Diseases

Total Results: 64

• Pig Disease Information Centre
  This UK based organisation's website features links to news items, articles, papers and databases in the areas of pig health, diseases annd welfare. The news archive section covers news items from 1999 to the present.
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• Communicable Diseases Australia
  hosted by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing Information on communicable disease surveillance in Australia. This includes data collection for national notifiable diseases and the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal.
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• ProMED-mail
  ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. It is "an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid and global dissemination of information about outbreaks of infectious diseases that affect human health.
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• Animal Health Australia
  AHA is a not-for-profit corporation established by business and government. Its website includes reports, newsletters and updates on programs concerning animal health services, animal diseases surveillance and emergency animal disease preparedness.
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• APHIS: Animal health
  Produced by the US Department of Agriculture Animal Health and Plant Inspection Service, this site publishes a collection of fact sheets on various animal diseases.
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• Veterinary Informatics and Epidemiology (VIE)
  VIE is a joint initiative between the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. It combines areas such as epidemiology, mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to focus on research in animal disease and modeling. This page contains links to web-based modules devoted to specific diseases.
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• Biosecurity Resources
  Published by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. Includes documents on the fundamentals of biosecurity, agroterrorism, and risk assessment tables.
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• Accreditation Program for Australian Veterinarians (APAV)
  Published by Animal Health Australia. APAV is a national program designed to integrate private veterinary practitioners into the national animal health system.
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• Recent advances in canine infectious diseases
  Electronic book edited by L. Carmichael, DVM PhD, and published by IVIS, Ithaca NY in 1999. Includes chapters discussing brucellosis, coronavirus, leptospirosis, parvovirus, and ringworm. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is free.
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• WWWeb Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians
  Compiled by John M. Gay, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, ACE, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University. Resources include online texts and courses, organisational, governmental and biostatistical data sources and web sites.
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• Invasive Species Specialist Group
  The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is part of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of The World Conservation Union (IUCN). The ISSG aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native species they contain by increasing awareness of invasive alien species, and of ways to prevent, control or eradicate them. Includes a Global Invasive Species Database, newsletter and discussion list.
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• AUSVETPLAN
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne\'s disease and details of Johne\'s disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne\'s Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS)
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• Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
  This resource, created by John M Gay of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, includes sections covering epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, general science, clinical testing, clinical study design and methods, and experimental design and statistics.
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• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
  The OIE seeks to guarantee the transparency of animal disease status worldwide, collect, analyse and disseminate veterinary scientific information, provide expertise for the control of animal diseases and guarantee the sanitary safety of world trade by developing sanitary rules for international trade in animals and animal products. Publications include the International Animal Health Code, the Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines. The OIE also publishes weekly, bimonthly and annual compilations of Disease Information bulletins.
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• AUSVETPLAN
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• National Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity and Biosecurity (NCABB)
  The NCABB was established by the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research to facilitate access to information on freshwater and marine biodiversity and biosecurity. It publishes reports and news items as well as its newsletter, Aquatic Biodiversity & Biosecurity
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• Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
  CIDRAP, based at the University of Minnesota, aims to "prevent illness and death from infectious diseases through epidemiologic research and the rapid translation of scientific information into real-world practical applications and solutions". Its website provides links to resources in the areas of biosecurity, bioterrorism, and food safety and provides regular updates and news items.
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• Biosecurity Australia
  Biosecurity Australia assesses quarantine risks associated with import proposals for animals and plants and their products. Its website publishes plant and animal import risk analyses, international standards and obligations, exotic pests, and disease and weed fact sheets. It also publishes animal and plant biosecurity policy memoranda, policy revisions and scientific reviews, and the Import Risk Analysis Process Handbook.
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• Recent Advances in Goat Diseases
  Electronic book edited by Professor M. Tempesta of Bari University and published by the International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca NY, 2001. Includes chapters on caprine chlamydiosis, border disease, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia and goat warble fly infestation, with more chapters being added. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is free.
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• Antimicrobials
  This Nature web focus features the latest on development of new antimicrobial drugs and selected papers on antibiotic function, resistance and development.
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• National Biosecurity Resource Center for Animal Health Emergencies
  Hosted by Purdue University. Includes online access to Purdue articles from the Journal of Swine Health and Production. Links to an online version of the 6th edition of Foreign Animal Diseases, produced by the Foreign Animal Diseases Committee of the United States Animal Health Association
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• Animal Health Surveillance
  Quarterly magazine published by NSW Department of Primary Industries. Provides updates on animal health and disease and the Department's animal health surveillance activities and projects.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• EpiVetNet
  This site is maintained by Dirk Pfeiffer from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. The site includes links to conferences, contacts, links, mailing lists, publications, reading lists, software, training and a what's new section.
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• The International Society for Infections Diseases
  "ISID is committed to improving the care of patients with infectious diseases, the training of clinicians and researchers in infectious diseases and microbiology, and the control of infectious diseases around the world."
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• National Animal Health Monitoring System: Sheep studies
  "NAHMS sheep studies provide an overview of sheep health, productivity, and management on U.S. sheep operations as well as information on animal health concerns identified by producers, industry allies, Federal and State agencies, and researchers.". Topics covered include: scrapie, feedlot health and management, ovine progressive pneumonia, and biosecurity.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Avian Influenza
  Interim draft Version 3.1 2005. This strategy sets out the disease control principles approved by the Primary Industries Ministerial Council use in an animal health emergency caused by the occurence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Australia.
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• A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology
  Edited by Jonathan Swinton, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a researcher for Proteom, a bioinformatics company.
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• New Zealand Biosecurity Institute
  The NZBI's mission is to "preserve and protect New Zealand's natural resources from the adverse impacts of invasive pests". The site includes information for travellers, importers, producers, schools and gardeners. Includes information on exotic pests and diseases and pest identification. It also publishes proceedings of its seminars and the selected articles from its quarterly magazine Protect.
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• Pigs: Disease Information
  This site, by Merial, provides information about pig diseases. It divides the endoparasites and ectoparasites into their constituent groups, and looks at their biology, damage to the host and control issues.
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• Exotic Diseases
  Produced by Dr Robert Dixon of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, this resource is aimed at the undergraduate student and provides an introduction to exotic diseases.
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• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
  A bi-national independent statutory authority that develops food standards for composition, labelling and contaminants, including microbiological limits, that apply to all foods produced or imported for sale in Australia and New Zealand.
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• Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS)
  AQIS "provides quarantine inspection for the arrival of international passengers, cargo, mail, animals and plants or their products into Australia, and inspection and certification for a range of animal and plant products exported from Australia". Its website includes import, export and quarantine legislation, forms and documents for import and export activities relating to animals, biological products, food, plants and grains.
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• Queensland Department of Primary Industries: Pig health
  Collection of articles published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries on general pig health issues and specific diseases.
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• Antimicrobials
  This Nature web focus features the latest on development of new antimicrobial drugs and selected papers on antibiotic function, resistance and development.
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• Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
  The WIFSS is based at the University of California at Davis. Its mission is to "conduct research that will enhance food safety in all sectors of the food systems' continuum from environment to consumer". The website provides details of the institutes research as well as links to other resources.
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• National Center for Animal Health Surveillance (US)
  The National Center for Animal Health Surveillance is divided into two distinct organisations . The National Surveillance Unit (NSU) devoted solely to animal disease surveillance and the National Animal Health Monitoring System which was has the aim of collecting, analysing, and disseminating data on animal health, management, and productivity across the US. The site publishes a vast collection of reports and other publications
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS)
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• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
  A multilingual, web based course developed by a team headed by Ronald E LaPorte at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Sections include: epidemiology in general, epidemiology in specific diseases and topics, and biostatistics.
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• What is the SPS Agreement?
  This is the full text of the World Trade Organisation agreement on applying sanitary and phytosanitary measures to protect health of people, animals and plants, while facilitating trade. It is published on the web by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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• AUSVETPLAN
  AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion. There are individual disease strategies, and manuals concerning operational procedures, enterprise, management and wild animal.
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• A concise guide to infectious and parasitic diseases of dogs and cats
  Electronic book edited by G.R. Carter, DVM MS DVSc, and published by IVIS, Ithaca NY in 2003. Includes chapters discussing internal and external parasitic diseases, antimicrobial drug dosages and major infectious diseases. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is free
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• Veterinary Epidemiology: An Introduction
  Electronic textbook written by Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. Includes: basic concepts of veterinary epidemiology, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, sampling of animal populations, interpretation of diagnostic tests, epidemiological animal disease information management.
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• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries-Biosecurity New Zealand
  The MAF Biosecurity Authority mission statement is to "protect New Zealand's unique biodiversity and facilitate exports by managing risks to plant and animal health and animal welfare". Its website publishes information and policies on imports, exports, pests and diseases, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures. It also regularly publishes Biosecurity and Surveillance magazines.
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• Sheep and Lambs: Health
  Published by Agriculture Western Australia. Collection of Farmnotes on sheep health and diseases.
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• A concise guide to infectious and parasitic diseases of dogs and cats
  Electronic book edited by G.R. Carter, DVM MS DVSc, and published by IVIS, Ithaca NY in 2003. Includes chapters discussing internal and external parasitic diseases, antimicrobial drug dosages and major infectious diseases. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is free.
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• Plant Health Australia
  Plant Health Australia is a peak national coordinating body for plant health in Australia. Research areas include industry biosecurity planning, national surveillance, and development of a plant pest database. Its website publishes fact sheets, research documents, threat summary tables and issues papers
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• Australia's Biosecurity Health Response
  Published by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, this website is designed to provide information about the response by Australia's health authorities to the threat of the release of a chemical or biological agent in Australia
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• Farmnotes - Pig health
  Collection of Farmnotes and other resources published by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. Topics covered include: proliferative enteritis, swine erysipelas, sarcoptic mange, swine dysentery, scours, Glassers disease, atrophic rhinitis, and pneumonia.
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• National pests and disease outbreaks
  This website was developed collaboratively across State & Territory and Australian Government agricultural agencies to provide a single, user-friendly website through which stakeholders can find access to local, state and national information in relation to Australian responses to current ongoing outbreaks of animal and plant pests and diseases.
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• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  Part of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.
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• Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book"
  Electronic book published by the United States Animal Health Association. Features an alphabetical listing of foreign animal diseases with details of etiology, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, and control and eradication for each disease.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  \"AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion\". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
  This is the 4th edition of the text by D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM, Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM and DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG published on the British Medical Journal web site in 1997.
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• WTO: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
  The World Trade Organization website publishes the full text of SPS related papers and documents, including a handbook on applying transparency provisions. It also provides links to member governments' SPS web sites and related organisations.
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• NSW animal health emergency sub-plan
  Provides details of control and coordination arrangements in response to an animal health emergency in New South Wales.
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• Canine infectious diseases: from clinics to molecular pathogenesis
  Published on the web by IVIS. Full text of papers presented at an international workshop on canine infectious diseases held at College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University on August 12-14th, 1999. Subjects covered include bacterial, parasitic, rickettsial and viral diseases. Users need to register with IVIS to access material. Registration is free.
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• Epidemiology Concepts for Disease in Animal Groups
  Prepared by John M. Gay at the Washington State University in the USA. The purpose of this site \"is to introduce the epidemiologic concepts applicable to understanding disease in animal groups to veterinary students and veterinary practitioners in a self-learning mode.\"
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• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  "APHIS is responsible for protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, administering the Animal Welfare Act, and carrying out wildlife damage management activities". Its website publishes a large range of resources on food safety, animal health, and surveillance.
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  \"AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion\". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Codex Alimentarius Commission
  Codex Alimentarius Commission develops food standards, guidelines and codes of practice under the Joint Food and Agriculture Organisation / World Health Organisation Food Standards Programme.
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• Australian Biosecurity CRC
  The Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre's mission is to "protect Australia's public health, livestock, wildlife and economic resources through research and education that strengthens the national capability to detect, diagnose, identify, monitor, assess, predict and respond to emerging infectious disease threats which impact on national and regional biosecurity."
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