The potential role of wild and feral animals as reservoirs of foot-and-mouth disease

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-23

  Ward, Michael P ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^b   Highfield, Linda D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cattle; Deer; Feral pig; Foot and mouth disease; Geographic automata; Simulation model; Spatial model; Texas; USA; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TEXAS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CERVIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 33947310451     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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