Continuous-data diagnostic tests for paratuberculosis as a multistage disease

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3923-3931

  Toft, N ^a   Nielsen, S S ^a   Jorgensen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; ELISA; Paratuberculosis; Test evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644546738     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)73078-2     Document Type: Article

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