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Links are established between all premises using the same slaughterhouse, catching company, owner or between premises that are geographically close (within 3 km of each other).
This occurs because we have made the assumption that all premises using the same slaughterhouse, catching company or belonging to the same multi-site premises are potentially all connected.
However, this result was reached on the assumption that all premises using the same slaughterhouse, catching company or belonging to the same multi-site company are all potentially connected, with all links being undirected.
If one assumes that using the same slaughterhouse company implies a potential link, up to 97% of premises sending birds to slaughter are potentially connected, which could translate to almost the entire poultry industry, assuming that most commercial premises do not slaughter their birds on site.
From a target population of approximately 9075 premises (the number of premises housing >999 birds according to the GB poultry register), a sample of 4441 poultry premises was included and potentially infectious links between premises could occur as a result of premises using the same slaughterhouse, catching company, or belonging to the same multi-site company.
Potentially infectious links between premises could occur either as a result of premises: 1. using the same catching company, or 2. using the same slaughterhouse, or 3. belonging to the same multi-site company, or 4. environmental spread within a 3 km radius of poultry premises.
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By combining available data associated with prior outbreaks of poultry diseases associated with faeco-oral transmission routes (Table 1) we have constructed possible contact structures within the poultry industry in GB based on associations amongst poultry premises using the same slaughterhouses, catching companies, and belonging to the same multi-site companies.
For example, farms that used the same slaughterhouse, catching company or that were integrated as part of a larger company were assumed to be epidemiologically linked (Dent et al., 2008; Nickbakhsh et al., 2011).
The PND was used to compute between-farm association frequencies, assuming that farms sharing the same slaughterhouse or catching company, or through integration, are potentially epidemiologically linked.
Federal rules say that beef from a state-regulated slaughterhouse cannot be sold in other states, but bison from the same slaughterhouse can.
All of these samples came from the same slaughterhouse and was labelled in its medial aspect with the corresponding laterality by the same veterinarian.
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