Herd management practices and the transmission of Johne's disease within infected dairy herds in Victoria, Australia

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 186-197

  Ridge, S E ^a   Heuer, C ^b   Cogger, N ^b   Heck, A ^a   Moor, S ^c   Baker, I M ^a   Vaughan, S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Department of Primary Industries ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cattle; ELISA; Farm and calf management; Johne's disease; Paratuberculosis; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; PARATUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DAIRYING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VICTORIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 77954861371     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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