Disease dynamics over very different time-scales: Foot-and-mouth disease and scrapie on the network of livestock movements in the UK

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 907-916

  Kao, Rowland R ^a,b   Green, Darren M ^a   Johnson, Jethro ^a,c   Kiss, Istvan Z ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Foot and mouth disease; Livestock; Prion; Social network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SCRAPIE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; GREAT BRITAIN; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 34948836194     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1129     Document Type: Article

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