Implications of BSE infection screening data for the scale of the British BSE epidemic and current European infection levels

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1506, 2002, Pages 2179-2190

  Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Ghani, Azra C ^a   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Differential mortality; Epidemiology; Model; Subclinical infection; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIC; MORTALITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CALCULATION; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RATE; ISRAEL; ITALY; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SLOVENIA; SPAIN; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 43649103419     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2156     Document Type: Article

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