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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...
Autores principales: | Riordan, Philip, Delahay, Richard John, Cheeseman, Chris, Johnson, Paul James, Macdonald, David Whyte |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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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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