Time trends in exposure of cattle to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and cohort effect in France and Italy: Value of the classical Age-Period-Cohort approach

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sala, Carole ^a   Ru, Giuseppe ^b  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b CEA Instituto Zooprofilatico Spermentale di Piemonte   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRANCE; ITALY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COHORT STUDIES; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FRANCE; ITALY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73349140866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-5-34     Document Type: Article

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