Modelling bovine babesiosis: A tool to simulate scenarios for pathogen spread and to test control measures for the disease

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 136-142

  Hoch, Thierry ^a,b   Goebel, Julien ^a,b   Agoulon, Albert ^a,b   Malandrin, Laurence ^a,b  

^a Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Acaricide; Bovine babesiosis; Deer; Ixodes ricinus; Mathematical model; Tick population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIROPLASMOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION;

ACARICIDES; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IXODES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84865320855     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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