Does reactive badger culling lead to an increase in tuberculosis in cattle?

Veterinary Record

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 208-209

  More, S J ^a   Clegg, T A ^a   McGrath, G ^a   Collins, J D ^a   Corner, L A L ^a   Gormley, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 34548218810     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.161.6.208     Document Type: Short Survey

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