The fitting of general force-of-infection models to wildlife disease prevalence data

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2356-2365

  Heisey, Dennis M ^a   Joly, Damien O ^b   Messier, François ^c  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apparent prevalence; Bison bison; Bovine tuberculosis; Force of infection; Infection hazard; Infection specific mortality hazard; Left truncation; Logistic regression; Mycobacterium bovis; Proportional hazards models; Wood buffalo

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MODEL; MORTALITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUFFALO; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BISON; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON; BOS TAURUS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33748527500     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2356:TFOGFM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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