Continuing Mycobacterium bovis transmission from animals to humans in New Zealand

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1068-1073

  Baker, Michael G ^a,c   Lopez, L D ^a   Cannon, M C ^b   De Lisle, G W ^b   Collins, D M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAT; CATTLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXITIS; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FERRET; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SWINE; TENOSYNOVITIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33748358913     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806005930     Document Type: Article

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