2.1 Data
Records of animal movements from Santa Catarina (SC) state in Brazil were provided by the official veterinary service in this state. The database includes the movements of pigs in SC in Brazil from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31. Records included all intra-state movements as well as outgoing movements with destinations outside of SC. Records with errors about the origin, destination, date or movements with destinations outside of SC were removed prior to any analysis. For the network analysis, movements with the purpose of slaughter were excluded, which were assumed to be epidemiological endpoints.