Using field-based epidemiological methods to investigate FMD outbreaks: An example from the 2002 outbreak in Korea

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 404-410

  Wee, S H ^b   Nam, H M ^b   Moon, O K ^b   Yoon, H ^b   Park, J Y ^b   More, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contractor; Disease outbreak; Epidemiology; Foot and mouth disease; Investigation; Korea; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; KOREA; MALE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; KOREA; MALE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 51149120581     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2008.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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