No increase in human cases of Mycobacterium bovis disease despite resurgence of infections in cattle in the United Kingdom

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-45

  Jalava, Katri ^a   Jones, J A ^a   Goodchild, T ^b   Clifton Hadley, R ^b   Mitchell, A ^b   Story, A ^a   Watson, J M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CATTLE FARMING; DAIRY PRODUCT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 33751368179     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806006509     Document Type: Article

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