Modelling the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Australia

Australian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 758-766

  Garner, M G ^a   Beckett, S D ^a  

^a Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VACCINATION;

EID: 33644849907     PISSN: 00050423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2005.tb11589.x     Document Type: Article

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