How was the French BSE epidemic underestimated?

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 329, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 106-116

  Supervie, Virginie ^a,b   Costagliola, Dominique ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Back calculation; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Epidemiology; Survival; Under reporting

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE DISEASE; CONSUMER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CHAIN; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 31344463504     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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