Bovine tuberculosis: Making a case for effective surveillance

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-112

  Probst, C ^a   Freuling, C ^a   Moser, I ^a   Geue, L ^a   Kohler H ^a   Conraths, F J ^a   Hotzel, H ^a   Liebler Tenorio, E M ^a   Kramer, M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine; communicable disease control; epidemiology; Mycobacterium bovis; tuberculosis; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE FARMING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTROL; GERMANY; HERD; MEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; TUBERCULIN TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GERMANY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 79952115655     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000786     Document Type: Article

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