Surveillance of Bovine Tuberculosis and Risk Estimation of a Future Reservoir Formation in Wildlife in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schöning, Janne Marie ^a   Cerny, Nadine ^b   Prohaska, Sarah ^b   Wittenbrink, Max M ^b   Smith, Noel H ^c   Bloemberg, Guido ^b   Pewsner, Mirjam ^a   Schiller, Irene ^d   Origgi, Francesco C ^a   Ryser Degiorgis, Marie Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIECHTENSTEIN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CAPRAE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHY; LIECHTENSTEIN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUS SCROFA; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BOVINAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS ELAPHUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84872668411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054253     Document Type: Article

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