Estimating the trend of the French BSE epidemic over sixth birth cohorts through the analysis of abattoir screening in 2001 and 2002

Veterinary Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 299-308

  La Bonnardière, Claude ^a,b   Calavas, Didier ^c   Abrial, David ^a   Morignat, Eric ^c   Ducrot, Christian ^a  

^a EPIA   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Abattoir screening; BSE; Epidemiology; Logistic regression; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; FOOD PROCESSING; FRANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVESTOCK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FRANCE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 2942676493     PISSN: 09284249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2004013     Document Type: Article

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