Spread of Q fever within dairy cattle herds: Key parameters inferred using a Bayesian approach

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1695, 2010, Pages 2857-2865

  Courcoul, Aurélie ^a,b   Vergu, Elisabeta ^c   Denis, Jean Baptiste ^c   Beaudeau, François ^a,b  

^a Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Cattle; Epidemiology; Modelling; Q fever; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIVITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVIDAE; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 77956927764     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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