Simulation of the options for a national control programme to eradicate scrapie from Great Britain

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 175-187

  Gubbins, Simon ^a,c   Webb, Cerian R ^b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culling; Epidemiology; Scrapie; Selective breeding; Stochastic model; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PREVALENCE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 19544392521     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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