Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-308

  Donnelly, Christl A ^a,b   Wei, Gao ^a   Johnston, W Thomas ^a   Cox, D R ^b,c   Woodroffe, Rosie ^b,d   Bourne, F John ^b   Cheeseman, C L ^e   Clifton Hadley, Richard S ^f   Gettinby, George ^b,g   Gilks, Peter ^a   Jenkins, Helen E ^a   Le Fevre, Andrea M ^a   McInerney, John P ^b   Morrison, W Ivan ^b,h  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^c NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger culling; Bovine TB; Cattle; Mycobacterium bovis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HERD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE VECTORS; GREAT BRITAIN; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POPULATION DENSITY; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 34250313968     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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