Temporal trend of tuberculosis in wild ungulates from mediterranean Spain

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL1, 2013, Pages 92-103

  Vicente, J ^a   Barasona, J A ^a   Acevedo, P ^b,c   Ruiz Fons, J F ^a   Boadella, M ^a   Diez Delgado, I ^a   Beltran Beck, B ^a   Gonzalez Barrio D ^a   Queiros J ^a   Montoro, V ^a   de la Fuente, J ^a   Gortazar, C ^a  

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

^b CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Disease progression; Epidemiology; Persistent infections; Red deer; Spain; Time trends; Tuberculosis; Wild boar; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PERSISTENT INFECTIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWINE; TIME TRENDS; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD ANIMAL; WILD BOAR; WILDLIFE;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PERSISTENT INFECTIONS; RED DEER; SPAIN; TIME TRENDS; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD BOAR; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MYCOBACTERIUM; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; SUS SCROFA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84886843794     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12167     Document Type: Article

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