Use of released pigs as sentinels for Mycobacterium bovis

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 665-677

  Nugent, Graham ^a   Whitford, Jackie ^a   Young, Nigel ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Brushtail possums; Epidemiology; Feral pigs; Mycobacterium bovis; Sentinels; Sus scrofa; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

ALOPIAS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHALANGERIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; OPOSSUM; PATHOLOGY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TERRITORIALITY; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; OPOSSUMS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TERRITORIALITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0038682090     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.4.665     Document Type: Article

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