id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-271863-apb8l8tq Ward, M.P. Companion animal disease surveillance: A new solution to an old problem? 2011-07-19 .txt text/plain 6347 323 50 While the project is still in its infancy, the analysis of initial data is demonstrating some important findings with respect to disease distributions in space and time and risk factors, and there is considerable potential to gather vital information that could lead to targeted vaccination and treatment efforts which could be the key to the control of various diseases. In this paper we report details of this surveillance tool and illustrate its utility with a case study of canine parvovirus (CPV) occurrence and distribution during a 9-month period in the state of New South Wales. To demonstrate the utility of the Disease WatchDog system, data analysis focused on reports of CPV in the state of New South Wales. The distribution of spatio-temporal clusters of cases of canine parvovirus reported in the Disease WatchDog surveillance system between January and September 2010 in New South Wales, Australia. ./cache/cord-271863-apb8l8tq.txt ./txt/cord-271863-apb8l8tq.txt