The great badgers and bovine TB debate

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 223-226

  Hancox, M ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; LIVESTOCK; TUBERCULOSIS;

BOVINAE; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 0036770020     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859602002514     Document Type: Review

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