Evaluating use of cattle winter feeding areas by elk and white-tailed deer: Implications for managing bovine tuberculosis transmission risk from the ground up

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 137-147

  Brook, Ryan K ^a   Wal, Eric Vander ^a   van Beest, Floris M ^a   McLachlan, Stéphane M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Co mingling; Direct contact; Disease transmission; Farmer interview; GPS collar; Indirect contact; Mail survey; Spatial overlap

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CANADA; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DEER; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; MALE; MANITOBA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; WHITE TIP DIE-BACK PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 84871667205     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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