Towards an automated system for the identification of notifiable pathogens: using as an example.
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.
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