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.