Fence-line contact between wild and farmed white-tailed deer in Michigan: Potential for disease transmission

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1603-1606

  Vercauteren, Kurt C ^a   Lavelle, Michael J ^a   Seward, Nathan W ^a   Fischer, Justin W ^b   Phillips, Gregory E ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Cameras; Cervid; CWD; Disease; Fence; Game farm; Michigan; Odocoileus virginianus; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; MONITORING; PRION DISEASE; WILD POPULATION;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; NASO; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 45449118895     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-179     Document Type: Article

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