Establishing the spread of bluetongue virus at the end of the 2006 epidemic in Belgium

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 133-144

  Meroc E ^a   Faes, C ^b   Herr, C ^a   Staubach, C ^d   Verheyden, B ^a   Vanbinst, T ^a   Vandenbussche, F ^a   Hooyberghs, J ^c   Aerts, M ^b   De Clercq, K ^a   Mintiens, K ^a  

^a VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain   (Belgium)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belgium; Bluetongue; Correlation; Epidemics; Seroprevalence; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HERD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 47949131318     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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