Modelling bluetongue virus transmission between farms using animal and vector movements

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Turner, Joanne ^a   Bowers, Roger G ^a   Baylis, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84859772332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00319     Document Type: Article

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