title: Integrating the surveillance of animal health, foodborne pathogens and foodborne diseases in developing and in-transition countries.
abstract: Animal diseases, foodborne pathogens and foodborne diseases have enormous impacts upon the health and livelihoods of producers and consumers in developing and in-transition countries. Unfortunately, the capacity for effective surveillance of infectious disease threats is often limited in these countries, leading to chronic under-reporting. This further contributes towards underestimating the effects of these diseases and an inability to implement effective control measures. However, innovative communications and diagnostic tools, as well as new analytical approaches and close cooperation within and between the animal and human health sectors, can be used to improve the coverage, quality and speed of reporting, as well as to generate more comprehensive estimates of the disease burden. These approaches can help to tackle endemic diseases and build essential surveillance capacities to address changing disease threats in the future.
authors.affiliation: Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy. katinka.debalogh@fao.org
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: de Balogh
authors.affiliation: Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, College of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 800, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Halliday
authors.affiliation: Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lubroth
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D003256:Community Participation; D003906:Developing Countries; D005516:Food Microbiology; D016266:Food Parasitology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015047:Zoonoses