Performance of an environmental test to detect Mycobacterium bovis infection in badger social groups

Veterinary Record

Volumn 161, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 817-818

  Courtenay, O ^a   Reilly, L A ^a   Sweeney, F P ^a   Macdonald, D W ^b   Delahay, R J ^c   Wilson, G J ^c   Cheeseman, C L ^c   Keeling, M J ^a   Wellington, E M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 38049072562     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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