Modelling spread of foot-and-mouth disease in wild white-tailed deer and feral pig populations using a geographic-automata model and animal distributions

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-63

  Ward, Michael P ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^b   Highfield, Linda D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

FMD; Geographic automata; Simulation model; Spatial analysis; Texas; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TEXAS;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 67650992091     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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