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

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 255-264

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Agriculture House   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Inconclusive reactors; Ireland; Mycobacterium bovis; SICTT; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRADERMAL TESTS; IRELAND; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 81055157010     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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