Models to capture the potential for disease transmission in domestic sheep flocks

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-184

  Schley, David ^a   Whittle, Sophie ^b   Taylor, Michael ^b   Kiss, Istvan Zoltan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compartmental models; Disease transmission; Sheep flocks; Stochastic simulation; Weighted contact network

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84865329137     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.023     Document Type: Article

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