Introduction to this issue: Dealing with TB in wildlife

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1339-1341

  Gortazar, C ^a   Cowan, P ^b  

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

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVESTOCK; MARSUPIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSSUM; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; DISEASE ERADICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84878828429     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000599     Document Type: Review

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