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Modeling livestock population structure: a geospatial database for Ontario swine farms

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1362-y

Published Online: 2018-01-30

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Khan, Salah Uddin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5928-9257
O’Sullivan, Terri L.

Poljak, Zvonimir

Alsop, Janet

Greer, Amy L.
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

Canada Research Chairs
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Article History

Received: 21 June 2017

Accepted: 24 January 2018

First Online: 30 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: We received de-identified presence/absence information on swine barn locations from the Provincial Premises Registry of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. To be specific, the database did not include any identifiable information linked to a specific farm or farmer (e.g. names, addresses and geographic locations). Because this research data did not contain identifiable information that might compromise a farmer’s privacy, it did not require research ethics board (REB) approval.

: Not applicable

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests