Digital monitoring of pathogen load in livestock

A computer-implemented method for monitoring pathogen load in livestock, comprising:

• a) receiving a request from an input/output device of a user to connect to an operating unit, wherein the request comprises the input of the user identity;
• b) the user request of a) initiates the operating unit to perform the following;
• c) receiving or retrieving data from the input/output device of a), wherein the data comprises;
• C1) data Dpat being indicative for the identity and load of one or more pathogens in a livestock, wherein the identity and the load of the pathogen are comprised in the data Dpat;
• C2) identification Ifarm of a farm, and/or farmhouse of the livestock of C1);
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• C3) the time point Tdata of generation of the data of C1),
• d) evaluating the data of C1), by a method comprising:
• d1) pulling a risk matrix from a database, wherein the risk matrix comprises, for each pathogen, a value vD for the limit of detection of the pathogen, a value vL for the lower limit of the occurrence of a disease caused by the pathogen, and a value vT for the threshold of the occurrence of a disease caused by the pathogen, and
• wherein;
• vL is n×vD with n being a real number larger than 1, wherein the value for n is given by the likelihood of the pathogen in question to cause an infectious disease
• a value for the pathogen load of not more than vD indicates that the risk for an infectious disease caused by the pathogen in question is unlikely,
• a value for the pathogen load being larger than vD and not more than vindicates that the risk for an infectious disease caused by the pathogen in question is rare,
• a value for the pathogen load being larger than vD and not more than v indicates that the risk for an infectious disease caused by the pathogen in question is possible, and
• a value for the pathogen load being larger than vT indicates that the risk for an infectious disease caused by the pathogen in question is certain;
• d2) for every pathogen in the data Dpat, reading off the values vD, vL, and vT from the risk matrix of d1);
• d3) for every pathogen, comparing the data Dpat indicative for the pathogen load) with the values vD, vL, and vT of d2) to find out the probability of any of the pathogens of C1) to cause a disease;
• d4) storing the data Dpat, the identification/farm of the farm, and/or farmhouse, and the time point Tdata of generation of the data DPat, received or retrieved in c) together with the finding of d3) in a dataset Duser, for the user of a);
• and
• d5) when the method is repeatedly carried out for the same user identity, storing the data Dpat, the identification Ifarm of the farm, and/or farmhouse, and the latest time point Tdata of generation of the data, received or retrieved in c), together with the finding of d3) in the same dataset Duser as in d4);
• e) the user request of a) initiates the operating unit to perform the following:
• e1) for each farm and/or farmhouse of the user of a), pulling the data Dpat, the findings and the latest time point Tdata of generation of the data stored in d4) or d5) from the dataset Duser for the user;
• e2) for each farm and/or farmhouse, grouping the data Dpat, findings and latest time point Tdata pulled in e1) as individual reports in a list, with the reports having the latest time points Tdata at the top of the list;
• e3) sending the list of reports obtained in e2) to the input/output device of the user,
• e4) receiving a selection of a report from the input/output device of the user;
• e5) for the report selected in e4), plotting the load of the livestock with every pathogen in the data Dpat for each time point Tdata of generation of the data Dpat into a diagram;
• e6) pulling the risk matrix of d1) from a database;
• e7) for every pathogen in the data Dpat, reading off the value(s) vL and/or vT for the one or more pathogens from the risk matrix of d1);
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• e8) plotting the value(s) vL and/or vT read off in e7) into the diagram obtained in e5).