Bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in British farmland wildlife: The importance to agriculture

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1584, 2006, Pages 357-365

  Mathews, Fiona ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a   Taylor, G Michael ^b   Gelling, Merryl ^a   Norman, Rachel A ^c   Honess, Paul E ^a   Foster, Rebecca ^a   Gower, Charlotte M ^d   Varley, Susan ^d   Harris, Audrey ^e   Palmer, Simonette ^f   Hewinson, Glyn ^f   Webster, Joanne P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Epidemiology; Mycobacterium bovis; Mycobacterium microti; PCR; Voles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BACTERIUM; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WILD ANIMAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; MURIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; TAXIDIINAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 33645785578     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3298     Document Type: Article

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