Culling-Induced Changes in Badger (Meles meles) Behaviour, Social Organisation and the Epidemiology of Bovine Tuberculosis

In the UK, attempts since the 1970s to control the incidence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle by culling a wildlife host, the European badger (Meles meles), have produced equivocal results. Culling-induced social perturbation of badger populations may lead to unexpected outcomes. We test predi...

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Autores principales: Riordan, Philip, Delahay, Richard John, Cheeseman, Chris, Johnson, Paul James, Macdonald, David Whyte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028904

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028904

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