A risk-assessment model for foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus introduction through deboned beef importation

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-59

  Yu, Peter ^a   Habtemariam, Tsegaye ^a   Wilson, Saul ^a   Oryang, David ^a   Nganwa, David ^a   Obasa, Mike ^a   Robnett, Vinaida ^a  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Foot and mouth disease; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS;

ANIMAL; APHTHOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; APHTHOVIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD INSPECTION; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; MEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031114685     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(96)01085-9     Document Type: Article

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