Can North American animal poison control center call data provide early warning of outbreaks associated with contaminated pet food? Using the 2007 melamine pet food contamination incident as a case study

• Alexandra L. Swirski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra L. Swirski, David L. Pearl

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

  * E-mail: aswirski@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4137-9320

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• David L. Pearl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra L. Swirski, David L. Pearl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Olaf Berke ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ OB and TLO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3537-0629

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• Terri L. O’Sullivan

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ OB and TLO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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