Comparing network analysis measures to determine potential epidemic size of highly contagious exotic diseases in fragmented monthly networks of dairy cattle movements in Ontario, Canada

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 382-392

  Dube C ^a,b   Ribble, C ^c   Kelton, D ^b   McNab, B ^d  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal movements; Foot and mouth disease; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; ONTARIO; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 55349099529     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2008.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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