Dr. Berenice Munguia-Ramirez: Diagnostic Tools to Strengthen Disease Preparedness | Ep. 225

In this episode of The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Berenice Munguia-Ramirez from Iowa State University explains how active participatory surveillance can improve foreign animal disease preparedness. She discusses producer participation, sampling frequency, testing costs, and laboratory capacity for detecting ASF or CSF at low prevalence. Listen now on all major platforms!

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"Frequent sampling and producer participation can make active participatory surveillance sensitive enough to detect disease at very low prevalence."

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁: Dr. Berenice Munguia-Ramirez earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Sonora Institute of Technology in México and a Master of Science in Veterinary Preventive Medicine from Iowa State University. Doctoral studies at Iowa State University focused on improving swine disease diagnostics using oral fluids and swine epidemiology. Learn more from Dr. Berenice Munguia-Ramirez on The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast, available on all major platforms.

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What you will learn:

• (00:00) Highlight
• (01:01) Introduction
• (01:46) Surveillance history
• (04:14) Participatory surveillance
• (06:38) Detection drivers
• (08:39) Surveillance costs
• (11:26) Laboratory capacity
• (14:38) Closing thoughts

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