Longer-term risk of Mycobacterium bovis in Irish cattle following an inconclusive diagnosis to the single intradermal comparative tuberculin test

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 147-154

  Clegg, T A ^a   Good, M ^b   Duignan, A ^b   Doyle, R ^b   Blake, M ^b   More, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Agriculture House   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Inconclusive; Ireland; Mycobacterium bovis; Parametric survival analysis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PATHOGENICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; IRELAND; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 79957943208     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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