From the Horse's Mouth: Perceptions of the Management of the 2007 Equine Influenza Outbreak in Australia

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 503-516

  Schemann, K ^a   Firestone, S M ^a   Taylor, M R ^b   Toribio, J A L M L ^a   Ward, M P ^a   Dhand, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Equine influenza; Ordinal logistic regression analysis; Outbreak management; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84868191583     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2012.01305.x     Document Type: Article

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