The role of pre-emptive culling in the control of foot-and-mouth disease

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3239-3248

  Tildesley, Michael J ^a   Bessell, Paul R ^a   Keeling, Matt J ^b   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Foot and mouth; Modelling

Indexed keywords

CULLING; DATA ACQUISITION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HETEROGENEITY; INFECTIVITY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATIONAL STRATEGY; POLICY REFORM; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70349435390     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0427     Document Type: Article

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