Effects of culling Eurasian wild boar on the prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis and Aujeszky's disease virus

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 214-221

  Boadella, M ^a   Vicente, J ^a   Ruiz Fons, F ^a   de la Fuente, J ^a,b   Gortazar C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Culling; Disease control; Epidemiology; Monitoring; Pseudorabies; Tuberculosis; Wildlife reservoir

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSEUDORABIES; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; SPAIN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PSEUDORABIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BOS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SUID HERPESVIRUS 1; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84868197200     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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