Transmission parameters of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infections in a dairy herd going through a control program

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 215-227

  Benedictus, A ^a   Mitchell, R M ^c   Linde Widmann, M ^b   Sweeney, R ^b   Fyock, T ^b   Schukken, Y H ^c   Whitlock, R H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Control programs; Epidemiology; Johne's disease; Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis; Paratuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRYING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FECES; FEMALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 38849108716     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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