Sheep movement networks and the transmission of infectious diseases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Volkova, Victoriya V ^a   Howey, Richard ^a   Savill, Nicholas J ^a   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE FARMING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INFECTION; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SHEEP DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; SCOTLAND; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77955288364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011185     Document Type: Article

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