The use of a mass-action model to validate the output from a stochastic simulation model of bovine viral diarrhoea virus spread in a closed dairy herd

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 199-209

  Innocent, G ^a   Morrison, I ^b   Brownlie, J ^b,c   Gettinby, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine viral diarrhoea; BVDV; Differential equation; Modelling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; BOVINE VIRAL DIARRHEA VIRUS 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINE DIARRHEA VIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHEA-MUCOSAL DISEASE; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIARRHEA VIRUSES, BOVINE VIRAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0031202167     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(96)01129-4     Document Type: Article

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