Estimation of the individual slaughterhouse surveillance sensitivity for bovine tuberculosis in Catalonia (North-Eastern Spain)

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 332-337

  Garcia Saenz, A ^a   Napp, S ^a   Lopez, S ^a   Casal, J ^a   Allepuz, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Slaughterhouse surveillance; Surveillance sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BOVINE; HEALTH SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84941965268     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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