Titre du document / Document title

A description of cattle movements in two departments of Buenos Aires province, Argentina

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

LEON E. A. ; STEVENSON M. A. ; DUFFY S. J. ; LEDESMA M. ; MORRIS R. S. ;

Résumé / Abstract

We present a descriptive analysis of cattle movement information retrieved from the Argentinean animal movement database for two departments in the province of Buenos Aires during 2004. For each quarter of the year (January to March, April to June, July to September, and October to December) we report the number of on- and off-farm movement events for the purpose of finishing. Our analyses show that the distribution of the number of finishing-related movement events per farm was skewed, with the majority of farms reporting at least 1 and less than 5% of farms of reporting greater than 15 finishing related movement events throughout the year. The frequency of finishing-related movement events varied over time, with a 1.2-1.8-fold increase in reported movement events from April to September, compared with the rest of the year. These analyses indicate that cattle movement patterns in these departments are dependent on the relative mix of constituent cattle enterprise types. Departments with a mixture of breeding and finishing enterprises behave as potential recipients and distributors of infectious disease, whereas departments comprised of primarily finishing enterprises are predominantly recipients of infectious disease, rather than distributors. Data integrity audits of the Argentinean animal movement database, on a regular or intermittent basis, should allow the presence of bias in these data to be quantified in greater detail.

Revue / Journal Title

Preventive veterinary medicine   ISSN 0167-5877 

Source / Source

2006, vol. 76, n^o1-2, pp. 109-120 [12 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, PAYS-BAS  (1982) (Revue)

Mots-clés d'auteur / Author Keywords

Animal movement ; Traceability ; Argentina ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 19377, 35400014226436.0080