The epidemiology of BSE in cattle herds in Great Britain. II. Model construction and analysis of transmission dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1355, 1997, Pages 803-838

  Ferguson, N M ^a   Donnelly, C A ^a   Woolhouse, M E J ^a   Anderson, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

NORTHERN IRELAND; UK;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031590050     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0063     Document Type: Article

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