title: Towards an automated system for the identification of notifiable pathogens: using as an example.
abstract: Simple and rapid identification of pathogen species is crucial to the control of many diseases. Here, James Kay, Andrew Shinn and Christina Sommerville demonstrate that statistical classifiers discriminate a notifiable pathogen Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957, a lethal ectoparasite of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., from its benign close relatives.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002589:Cestoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018563:Disease Notification; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010274:Parasitology / Q000379:methods*; D020317:Salmo salar; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology