Bovine Tuberculosis Risk Factors for British Herds Before and After the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic: What have we Learned from the TB99 and CCS2005 Studies?

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 505-515

  Vial, F ^a,d   Miguel, E ^a   Johnston, W T ^b   Mitchell, A ^c   Donnelly, C A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Bovine tuberculosis; Cattle trading; Foot and mouth; Randomized badger culling trial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84940588927     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12184     Document Type: Review

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