Not all cows are epidemiologically equal: Quantifying the risks of bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) transmission through cattle movements

Veterinary Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gates, M Carolyn ^a   Humphry, Roger W ^b   Gunn, George J ^b   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE VIRAL DIARRHEA VIRUS 1;

ANIMAL; BOVINE; BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHEA-MUCOSAL DISEASE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PESTIVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHEA-MUCOSAL DISEASE; CATTLE; COMMERCE; DIARRHEA VIRUSES, BOVINE VIRAL; FEMALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84938869455     PISSN: 09284249     EISSN: 12979716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13567-014-0110-y     Document Type: Article

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