title: [A continuous eco-pathological survey: aims and strategy (author's transl)].
abstract: The article describes a dynamic information system, gradually built up since 1977 in 126 herds from eight French departments, designed to provide data on bovine and ovine disease. Details of the methodology used are also included. This new epidemiologic apparatus is a continuous data-base constituted from information concerning not only the overall disease picture, but also feeding, herd management, climate, soil, and elements of the technical, economic and social environment of the farms. Biochemical blood analyses and serological investigations with respect to infectious and parasitic disease were also systematically undertaken. The chief objectives of the continuous eco-pathological survey are, initially, to set up a computerised study concerned with the interrelationships of environment and pathology, and the processes and factors linked with disease, and in the long term, to establish a preventive veterinary network.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D003625:Data Collection; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005602:France; D007256:Information Systems; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Enquête éco-pathologique continue en élevages-observatoires chez les ruminants: objectifs et stratégie.