Evaluation of natural transmission of bovine leukaemia virus within dairy herds of Argentina

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-237

  Monti, Gustavo E ^a,b   Frankena, K ^a   De Jong, M C M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH; BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; BREEDING; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DISEASE MODEL; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEIFER; HERD; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEROCONVERSION; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZOOTIC BOVINE LEUKOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, BOVINE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33847300022     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806006637     Document Type: Article

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