Epidemiological modelling for the assessment of bovine tuberculosis surveillance in the dairy farm network in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)

Epidemics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-70

  Rossi, Gianluigi ^a   De Leo, Giulio A ^b   Pongolini, Stefano ^c   Natalini, Silvano ^d   Vincenzi, Simone ^e,f   Bolzoni, Luca ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^d Servizio Veterinario e Igiene Alimenti Assessorato Politiche per la Salute Regione Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^g RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Disease surveillance; Epidemiological model; Network model; SEI model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BOVINAE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAIRYING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ITALY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUBERCULIN TEST; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84925300199     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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