Within-herd contact structure and transmission of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in a persistently infected dairy cattle herd

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-125

  Marce C ^a,b   Ezanno, P ^a   Seegers, H ^a   Pfeiffer, D U ^b   Fourichon, C ^a  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cattle housing; Dairy cattle; Herd level; Modelling; Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79956268941     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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