Comparative epidemiology of scrapie outbreaks in individual sheep flocks

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 513-521

  Redman, C A ^a,d   Coen, P G ^a,e   Matthews, L ^a   Lewis, R M ^b   Dingwall, W S ^b   Foster, J D ^c   Chase Topping, M E ^a   Hunter, N ^c   Woolhouse, M E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^d Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HERD; INCIDENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; SCRAPIE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; PEDIGREE; SCRAPIE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SHEEP;

EID: 0036289328     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802007008     Document Type: Article

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