To produce knowledge and tools to support decision-making for disease control
Expertise
epidemiology, animal health economics, cattle farming systems
Current work
Evaluation of disease status at the herd level, modelling disease transmission, quantification of production losses, estimation of economic impact of the disease, assessment of disease control strategies et the herd level and regional level
Beaudeau F., Belliard M., Joly A., Seegers H, 2007. Reduction in milk yield associated with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) infection in French dairy cows. Veterinary Research, 38, 625-634.
Marcé C., Beaudeau F., Bareille N., Seegers H., Fourichon C., 2009. Higher non-return rate associated with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection at early stage in Holstein dairy cows. Theriogenology, 71, 807-816.
Marcé C., Ezanno P, Weber M, Seegers H., Pfeiffer D., Fourichon C., 2009. Main assumptions in paratuberculosis transmission models. Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (poster copy available).
On impact of livestock endemic diseases
Beaudeau F., Fourichon C., Robert A., Joly A., Seegers H., 2005. Bulk milk somatic cell counts and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) infection in 7,252 dairy herds in Bretagne (western France). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 72, 163-167.
Fourichon C., Beaudeau F., Bareille N., Seegers H., 2005. Quantification of economic losses consecutive to infection of a dairy herd with bovine viral diarrheoa virus. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 72,177-181.
Seegers H., Fourichon C., Beaudeau F., 2003. Production effects related to mastitis and mastitis economics in dairy cattle herds. Veterinary Research, 34, 475-491.
On modelling disease transmission
Ezanno P., Fourichon C., Beaudeau F., Seegers H., 2006. Between-herd movements of cattle in Bretagne and risk of introducing infected animals. Animal Research, 55, 189-208.
Hoch T., Fourichon C., Viet A.F., Seegers H., 2008. Influence of the transmission function on a simulated pathogen spread within a population. Epidemiology and Infection, 136, 1374-1382.
Lurette A., Belloc C., Touzeau S., Hoch T., Ezanno P., Seegers H., Fourichon C., 2008. Modelling Salmonella spread within a farrow-to-finish pig herd. Veterinary Research 39:49 DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2008026
Viet A.F., Fourichon C., Seegers H., Jacob C., Guihenneuc-Jouyaux C, 2004. A model of the spread of the bovine viral-diarrhoea virus within a dairy herd. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 63, 211-236.
Viet A.F., Fourichon C., Seegers H., 2007. Review and critical discussion of assumptions and modelling options to study the spread of the bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) within a cattle herd. Epidemiology and Infection, 135, 706-721.
On assessing disease control strategies
Rat-Aspert O., Weldegebriel H.T., Stott A.W., Fourichon C., 2008. Managing animal health status information in the cattle market. 12th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists.
Rat-Aspert O., Petit E., Fourichon C., 2009. Impact of individual decisions of farmers on the efficency of vaccination at a regional level : a modelling approach. Proceedings of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
