Direction of Association between Bite Wounds and Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Badgers: Implications for Transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Jenkins, Helen E ^a   Cox, D R ^b   Delahay, Richard J ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BADGER; BITE WOUND; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYNAMICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 84866529348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045584     Document Type: Article

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