A comparison of fertility control and lethal control of bovine tuberculosis in badgers: The impact of perturbation induced transmission

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1353, 1997, Pages 619-631

  Swinton, J ^a,b   Tuyttens, F ^b   Macdonald, D ^b   Nokes, D J ^c   Cheeseman, C L ^d   Clifton Hadley, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; MELES MELES;

BADGER; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FERTILITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031589941     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0042     Document Type: Article

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