Risks for bovine tuberculosis in British cattle farms restocked after the foot and mouth disease epidemic of 2001

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 85-93

  Carrique Mas, J J ^a   Medley, G F ^a   Green, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Cattle to cattle transmission; Foot and mouth disease; Retrospective cohort study

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 39149116692     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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