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Local Cattle and Badger Populations Affect the Risk of Confirmed Tuberculosis in British Cattle Herds

BACKGROUND: The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching in 1998 the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of badger (Meles meles) culling as a control strategy. Our study complements previous...

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Autores principales: Vial, Flavie, Johnston, W. Thomas, Donnelly, Christl A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21464920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018058