Husbandry practices, badger sett density and habitat composition as risk factors for transient and persistent bovine tuberculosis on UK cattle farms

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 129-142

  Reilly, L A ^a   Courtenay, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger; Bovine tuberculosis; Case control study; Cattle; Epidemiology; Farm management; Mycobacterium bovis; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MANURE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSTELIDAE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 34247170869     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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