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arxiv: 2606.18277 · v1 · pith:SPJVU6SAnew · submitted 2026-06-05 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · q-bio.PE

Multi-network comparison of between-farm contacts for infectious disease surveillance in swine production

Jason A. Galvis , Nicolas C. Cardenas , Gustavo Machado This is my paper

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keywords swine farmscontact networksvehicle movementssuper-spreadersinfectious disease surveillancepig movementsnetwork analysisdisease transmission
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The pith

Vehicle movement networks among swine farms are far denser than pig movement or distance networks and flag largely different super-spreader farms.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper builds eleven separate contact networks among swine farms using truck and trailer movements, live pig shipments, and geographic distances. It shows that feed truck networks connect farms at levels 98.7 to 99.7 percent higher than the other types and that vehicle networks share up to 89 percent of their top-ranked super-spreader farms while pig-movement and distance networks share at most 8 percent. Finisher farms appear as super-spreaders in vehicle and proximity networks, and sow farms receive many incoming feed-truck links. Because each network produces its own list of high-risk farms, the study concludes that surveillance must combine multiple contact types to capture different transmission routes to breeding farms.

Core claim

Truck and trailer movement networks were the most densely connected, particularly for feed transport, showing connectivity levels between 98.7% and 99.7% higher than those of pig movement and distance-based networks. When comparing the top 50 farms ranked by super-spreader score in each network, vehicle-based networks showed the highest similarity, with up to 89% of top-ranked farms shared between vehicle networks. In contrast, pig movement and distance-based networks identified largely distinct sets of top-ranked farms, sharing at most 4% and 8%, respectively, with other contact networks. Each network exhibited a distinct connectivity structure, resulting in different sets of high-risk farm

What carries the argument

Comparison of eleven contact networks (vehicle movements, pig movements, distance-based) ranked by super-spreader scores from network metrics such as degree and betweenness.

If this is right

  • Surveillance programs should monitor feed truck routes because they create the most connections and reach sow farms frequently.
  • Finisher farms should receive priority attention in vehicle-based monitoring since they rank high as super-spreaders in those networks.
  • Aggregated truck data can serve as a bridge network linking many otherwise separate farms.
  • Using only pig-movement or distance data would miss most of the high-connectivity links identified by vehicle networks.
  • Different networks produce different high-risk farm lists, so single-network surveillance would overlook some transmission routes to breeding farms.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Real-time feed-truck tracking could give earlier alerts than waiting for pig shipment records.
  • Combining the networks might reveal farms that act as bridges only when multiple contact types are considered together.
  • The same multi-network method could be tested on other livestock species or regions to check whether vehicle movements remain the densest layer.
  • Resource allocation for inspections could shift toward vehicle routes in areas where feed transport dominates connectivity.

Load-bearing premise

The networks built from movement records and distances correctly represent the routes that actually transmit infectious disease between farms.

What would settle it

Track a real swine disease outbreak and test whether the farms that become infected match the super-spreader lists from the vehicle networks more closely than the lists from the pig-movement or distance networks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.18277 by Gustavo Machado, Jason A. Galvis, Nicolas C. Cardenas.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of network size and connectivity across networks, including the A) number of nodes, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Distribution of node-level centrality metrics across networks, including A) total degree, B) total [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Correlation plot showing the connectivity among swine farm production types across networks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Super-spreader nodes across networks. Each panel displays the relationship between node connec [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Similarity of the 50 top-ranked nodes across networks. The heatmap shows pairwise similarity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Understanding how swine farms are interconnected, directly and indirectly, is essential to characterizing infectious disease transmission. This study aimed to describe the connectivity of swine farms across 11 network types, including vehicle movements (i.e., trucks and trailers), animal movements, and distance-based farm-to-farm contacts, to identify links among production types and farms likely to be consistently characterized as super-spreaders. Truck and trailer movement networks were the most densely connected, particularly for feed transport, showing connectivity levels between 98.7% and 99.7% higher than those of pig movement and distance-based networks. These networks also exhibited the highest degree and frequency of connections between farms, while the aggregated truck network, which included all truck types, showed the greatest potential to act as a bridge connecting farms. Finisher farms were highly interconnected with other farm types across all networks. Sow farms were frequently reached by other farm types, especially through feed truck movements, representing up to 8.7% of these links. We demonstrated that in vehicle movements and proximity networks, finisher farms played a major role as super-spreaders. When comparing the top 50 farms ranked by super-spreader score in each network, vehicle-based networks showed the highest similarity, with up to 89% of top-ranked farms shared between vehicle networks. In contrast, pig movement and distance-based networks identified largely distinct sets of top-ranked farms, sharing at most 4% and 8%, respectively, with other contact networks. Overall, each network exhibited a distinct connectivity structure, resulting in different sets of high-risk farms, particularly regarding potential transmission to breeding farms. These findings support the integration of multiple transmission pathways into disease surveillance.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript constructs 11 networks from vehicle (truck/trailer), pig movement, and distance-based contacts among swine farms. It compares their connectivity, degree, and bridge potential, identifies finisher and sow farms as highly interconnected, and ranks farms by a composite super-spreader score. Vehicle networks are reported as most densely connected (98.7–99.7% higher connectivity than others) and share up to 89% of their top-50 super-spreader farms, while pig-movement and distance networks share at most 4–8% with other networks, supporting the conclusion that each contact type identifies distinct high-risk sets for surveillance.

Significance. If the networks faithfully represent transmission routes and the super-spreader score correlates with actual secondary-case generation, the work would demonstrate that surveillance strategies must integrate multiple pathways rather than relying on any single network type. The explicit quantification of overlap percentages and the role of finisher farms across networks would be useful for prioritizing vehicle-based monitoring in swine systems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods] Methods (network construction and super-spreader definition): No epidemic simulation (SIR/SEIR or equivalent) on the constructed graphs or comparison to recorded outbreak data is reported to test whether the chosen centrality composite actually ranks farms by transmission risk. Without this check, the claim that vehicle networks identify largely overlapping high-risk farms while pig-movement and distance networks identify distinct sets lacks epidemiological grounding.
  2. [Results] Results (top-50 overlap analysis): The reported 89% overlap between vehicle networks and the 4–8% overlap with pig-movement/distance networks are presented as evidence of distinct high-risk sets, yet these percentages rest entirely on the unvalidated super-spreader ranking; a sensitivity analysis replacing the score with degree or betweenness alone is not shown.
  3. [Methods] Data and sample description: The abstract and methods summary provide no information on the number of farms, time window, or data sources used to build the 11 networks, preventing assessment of whether the reported connectivity differences (98.7–99.7%) are robust to sampling variation or missing links.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Clarify whether the aggregated truck network includes all vehicle types or only a subset, and provide the exact formula or weighting used for the super-spreader score.
  2. [Figures] Figure legends should explicitly state the number of farms and edges in each network so readers can judge the scale of the reported percentages.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive comments. We address each major point below, clarifying the scope of our descriptive network analysis while agreeing to strengthen the manuscript where possible.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods (network construction and super-spreader definition): No epidemic simulation (SIR/SEIR or equivalent) on the constructed graphs or comparison to recorded outbreak data is reported to test whether the chosen centrality composite actually ranks farms by transmission risk. Without this check, the claim that vehicle networks identify largely overlapping high-risk farms while pig-movement and distance networks identify distinct sets lacks epidemiological grounding.

    Authors: Our manuscript presents a structural comparison of 11 contact networks and ranks farms using a composite of established centrality measures; it does not claim or test predictive validity for actual transmission. No outbreak data were available for validation, and performing new SIR/SEIR simulations falls outside the stated descriptive scope. We will add explicit language in the Discussion clarifying this limitation and the intended use of the composite score as a relative ranking tool rather than an epidemiologically validated predictor. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Results] Results (top-50 overlap analysis): The reported 89% overlap between vehicle networks and the 4–8% overlap with pig-movement/distance networks are presented as evidence of distinct high-risk sets, yet these percentages rest entirely on the unvalidated super-spreader ranking; a sensitivity analysis replacing the score with degree or betweenness alone is not shown.

    Authors: The overlap figures quantify similarity in the ordering produced by the chosen composite score; they are descriptive of how different networks prioritize farms rather than a claim of validated risk. We agree that reporting overlaps under degree or betweenness alone would be informative and will add this sensitivity analysis to the revised Results section. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Methods] Data and sample description: The abstract and methods summary provide no information on the number of farms, time window, or data sources used to build the 11 networks, preventing assessment of whether the reported connectivity differences (98.7–99.7%) are robust to sampling variation or missing links.

    Authors: We agree that these details belong in the abstract and opening methods paragraph. The full Methods section contains the farm count, study period, and data provenance; we will move the key summary statistics forward and ensure they appear in the abstract as well. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical descriptive network comparison

full rationale

The paper constructs contact networks from movement and distance data, then computes standard metrics (degree, betweenness, composite super-spreader score) to rank farms and compare overlaps across network types. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are present that reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citation chains or uniqueness theorems are invoked as load-bearing. The analysis is self-contained data description with independent observational content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no information on free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; analysis appears to use standard graph metrics (degree, connectivity) without additional fitted values or new postulated entities.

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