Evaluation of sampling methods for effective detection of infected pig farms during a disease outbreak

• Yoshinori Murato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Viral Disease and Epidemiology Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yoko Hayama,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Viral Disease and Epidemiology Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yumiko Shimizu,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Viral Disease and Epidemiology Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kotaro Sawai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Viral Disease and Epidemiology Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Takehisa Yamamoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mtbook@affrc.go.jp

  Affiliation Viral Disease and Epidemiology Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-0639

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