Control of scrapie in the UK sheep population

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 775-786

  Truscott, J E ^a   Ferguson, N M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Modelling; Sheep; TSE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; POLICY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE; SIMULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; METHODOLOGY; SHEEP; TIME;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EUROPEAN UNION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649723066     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001064     Document Type: Article

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