Long-term temporal trends and estimated transmission rates for Mycobacterium bovis infection in an undisturbed high-density badger (Meles meles) population

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1445-1456

  Delahay, R J ^a   Walker, N ^a   Smith, G S ^a   Wilkinson, D ^a   Clifton Hadley, R S ^b   Cheeseman, C L ^c   Tomlinson, A J ^a   Chambers, M A ^b  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c Brownshill   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Key word Tuberculosis (TB)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BADGER; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MELES MELES; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84878852879     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000721     Document Type: Article

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