Bovine tuberculosis in Doñana Biosphere Reserve: The role of wild ungulates as disease reservoirs in the last Iberian lynx strongholds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gortázar, Christian ^a   Torres, María José ^b   Vicente, Joaquín ^a   Acevedo, Pelayo ^a   Reglero, Manuel ^a   de la Fuente, José ^a,c   Negro, Juan José ^d   Aznar Martín, Javier ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COW; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HABITAT; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LYNX; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNGULATE; VARIANCE; WILD BOAR; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SWINE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; DAMA DAMA; LYNX; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 50649095656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002776     Document Type: Article

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