Relative contributions of neighbourhood and animal movements to Coxiella burnetii infection in dairy cattle herds

Geospatial Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 471-477

  Nusinovici, Simon ^a,b   Hoch, Thierry ^a,b   Widgren, Stefan ^c   Joly, Alain ^a,b,d   Lindberg, Ann ^c   Beaudeau, François ^a,b  

^a Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UBGDS Union Bretonne des Groupement de Défense Sanitaire   (France)

Author keywords

Control measures; Epidemiology; France; Q fever; Risk factor; Spatial clustering; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FRANCE; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; Q FEVER; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FRANCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; Q FEVER; RISK FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84901626806     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2014.36     Document Type: Article

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