Contact networks in a wildlife-livestock host community: Identifying high-risk individuals in the transmission of bovine TB among badgers and cattle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Böhm, Monika ^a   Hutchings, Michael R ^b   White, Piran C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HERD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WILD ANIMAL;

BOS; BOVINAE; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSTELIDAE; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 65549112109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005016     Document Type: Article

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