From explanation to prediction: A model for recurrent bovine tuberculosis in Irish cattle herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 170-177

  Wolfe, Dianna M ^a   Berke, Olaf ^a   Kelton, David F ^a   White, Paul W ^b   More, Simon J ^b   O'Keeffe, James ^c   Martin, S Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Agriculture House   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cattle microbiological diseases; Control strategies; Cox proportional hazards regression analysis; Herd level; Ireland; Modeling; Mycobacterium bovis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; IRELAND; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; IRELAND; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 77949486398     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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