Assessment and simulation of the implementation of brucellosis control programme in an endemic area of the Middle East

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1436-1448

  Hegazy, Y M ^a   Ridler, A L ^a   Guitian, F J ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Control; Middle East

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVESTOCK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; SIMULATION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLOSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GOATS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SHEEP;

EID: 70349229687     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809002301     Document Type: Article

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