BSE risk assessment as a basis for updating French screening policy

Risk Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1131-1140

  Supervie, Virginie ^a,b   Costagliola, Dominique ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Age cutoff; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Epidemiology; Risk assessment; Test sensitivity

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRANCE; MEATS; PUBLIC POLICY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGE CUTOFF; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE);

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE STRUCTURE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; DECISION MAKING; FRANCE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION;

EID: 36849079424     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00949.x     Document Type: Article

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