Geographical BSE risk assessment and its impact on disease detection and dissemination

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 255-264

  Salman, Mo ^a   Silano, Vittorio ^b   Heim, Dagmar ^c   Kreysa, Joachim ^d  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

^c SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

BSE; Geographical risk assessment; Risk assessment; TSE

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMMERCE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZOONOSES;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION;

EID: 84862862028     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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