Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 1 - Disease Investigation/311/en

Controls should not have the disease (meet the definition for non-case) and should be identified independent of any possible risk factor of interest. The controls should generally be representative of the population from which the cases arose. This means if the cases came from animals admitted to one or more veterinary clinics then the controls should be selected from those same clinics. The same applies to farms.