Assessment of management-related risk factors for paratuberculosis in Danish dairy herds using Bayesian mixture models

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 306-317

  Nielsen, S S ^a   Toft, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cattle; Herd level management related risk factors; Multi level Bayesian mixture model; Paratuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; BUILDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DENMARK; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DENMARK; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; ODDS RATIO; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34447275494     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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