The impact of potential mitigation strategies on the predicted spread of foot and mouth disease in white-tailed deer in south Texas

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 282-288

  Highfield, Linda D ^a   Ward, Michael P ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^b   Norby, Bo ^a   Wagner, G Gale ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control; Deer; Foot and mouth disease; Simulation model; Texas; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TEXAS;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 77949487470     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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