The Potential Role of Direct and Indirect Contacts on Infection Spread in Dairy Farm Networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Rossi, Gianluigi ^a,b,f   De Leo, Giulio A ^a,c   Pongolini, Stefano ^b   Natalini, Silvano ^d   Zarenghi, Luca ^e   Ricchi, Matteo ^b   Bolzoni, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Viale Aldo Moro   (Italy)

^e Via Vasari   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

CONTACT NETWORKS; CONTACT STRUCTURE; DAIRY FARMS; DIRECT CONTACT; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INDIRECT CONTACT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NORTHERN ITALY; PARATUBERCULOSIS;

FARMS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION SPREAD; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARATUBERCULOSIS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VETERINARY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85011369906     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005301     Document Type: Article

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