| Surveillance of shellf ish health is based on clinical surveillance of shellfish mortality, including a detection phase and a mandatory notification phase. While control measures are limited, early detection of pathogens is a challenge which needs to be met. The relevance and feasibility of an enhanced clinical surveillance based on phone interviews were studied. The results made it possible to reconstruct the spatial and temporal evolution of the outbreaks of mussel mortality which occurred in Pertuis Charentais in 2014. Moreover, a qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed contextual elements that were used to enhance the previous description and to devise causal scenarios which could be used as research hypotheses. By incorporating the... |
