Prevalence of sheep infected with classical scrapie in Great Britain: Integrating multiple sources of surveillance data for 2002

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 1343-1351

  Gubbins, Simon ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Back calculation; Epidemiology; Prion protein genotype; Scrapie; Sheep; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SURVEYS; TESTING; WOOL;

BACK CALCULATION; CLINICAL SIGNS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; INTEGRATING MULTIPLE SOURCES; PRION PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN GENOTYPE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVEILLANCE DATA; TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY;

HEALTH;

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENOTYPE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 52749085690     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0021     Document Type: Article

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