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APHA guidance to help practitioners take samples for surveillance THE Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has published a new booklet of guidance for private veterinary practitioners to help them take samples and select tests for the diagnosis of common clinical presentations in livestock and wildlife. The booklet has been written by members of the APHA Species Expert Groups and other veterinary colleagues and covers sampling by discipline (histology, bacteriology, serology, parasitology and virology) as well as sampling by species (birds, cattle, small ruminants, pigs, miscellaneous and exotic farmed species, and wildlife) for different disease conditions. It gives guidance on selecting animals for postmortem examination and the submission of both carcases and live animals.
The booklet also explains what happens to the surveillance information provided by practitioners: ‘The surveillance information you provide on the submission form is recorded in the VIDA database, together with any diagnosis reached. VIDA is a national database, providing analysis of all diagnostic submissions to APHA and Scottish Rural College surveillance centres. Diagnoses follow strict criteria. VIDA allows monitoring of
diagnoses, clinical syndromes and disease trends and epidemiological features associated with these. Submissions where a diagnosis is not reached (DNR) after reasonable testing are also scrutinised to determine whether they provide any evidence of a new or (re)emerging threat.’ The booklet can be downloaded from http:// ahvla.defra.gov.uk/ documents/surveillance/ sub-handbook.pdf doi: 10.1136/vr.g6660 November 8, 2014 | Veterinary Record | 443
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APHA guidance to help practitioners take samples for surveillance Veterinary Record 2014 175: 443
doi: 10.1136/vr.g6660 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/175/18/443.2
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surveillance
APHA guidance to help practitioners take samples for surveillance THE Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has published a new booklet of guidance for private veterinary practitioners to help them take samples and select tests for the diagnosis of common clinical presentations in livestock and wildlife. The booklet has been written by members of the APHA Species Expert Groups and other veterinary colleagues and covers sampling by discipline (histology, bacteriology, serology, parasitology and virology) as well as sampling by species (birds, cattle, small ruminants, pigs, miscellaneous and exotic farmed species, and wildlife) for different disease conditions. It gives guidance on selecting animals for postmortem examination and the submission of both carcases and live animals.
The booklet also explains what happens to the surveillance information provided by practitioners: ‘The surveillance information you provide on the submission form is recorded in the VIDA database, together with any diagnosis reached. VIDA is a national database, providing analysis of all diagnostic submissions to APHA and Scottish Rural College surveillance centres. Diagnoses follow strict criteria. VIDA allows monitoring of
diagnoses, clinical syndromes and disease trends and epidemiological features associated with these. Submissions where a diagnosis is not reached (DNR) after reasonable testing are also scrutinised to determine whether they provide any evidence of a new or (re)emerging threat.’ The booklet can be downloaded from http:// ahvla.defra.gov.uk/ documents/surveillance/ sub-handbook.pdf doi: 10.1136/vr.g6660 November 8, 2014 | Veterinary Record | 443
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APHA guidance to help practitioners take samples for surveillance Veterinary Record 2014 175: 443
doi: 10.1136/vr.g6660 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/175/18/443.2
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