Seasonality and pathogen transmission in pastoral cattle contact networks

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  VanderWaal, Kimberly ^a   Gilbertson, Marie ^a   Okanga, Sharon ^b   Allan, Brian F ^b   Craft, Meggan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Animal movement; Ecology; Infectious disease; Network analysis; Pathogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037625925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170808     Document Type: Article

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