Within-holding prevalence of sheep classical scrapie in Great Britain

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ortiz Pelaez, Ángel ^a   Del Río Vilas, Víctor J ^a,b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; PREVALENCE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; GREAT BRITAIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 62449248349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-5-1     Document Type: Article

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