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Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland

The role of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) as a wildlife host has complicated the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Badger ranging behaviour has previously been found to be altered by culling of badgers and has been suggested to increase the transmission of bTB either among badge...

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Autores principales: O'Hagan, M. J. H., Gordon, A. W., McCormick, C. M., Collins, S. F., Trimble, N. A., McGeown, C. F., McHugh, G. E., McBride, K. R., Menzies, F. D.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33958017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001096
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author O'Hagan, M. J. H.
Gordon, A. W.
McCormick, C. M.
Collins, S. F.
Trimble, N. A.
McGeown, C. F.
McHugh, G. E.
McBride, K. R.
Menzies, F. D.
author_facet O'Hagan, M. J. H.
Gordon, A. W.
McCormick, C. M.
Collins, S. F.
Trimble, N. A.
McGeown, C. F.
McHugh, G. E.
McBride, K. R.
Menzies, F. D.
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description The role of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) as a wildlife host has complicated the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Badger ranging behaviour has previously been found to be altered by culling of badgers and has been suggested to increase the transmission of bTB either among badgers or between badgers and cattle. In 2014, a five-year bTB intervention research project in a 100 km(2) area in Northern Ireland was initiated involving selective removal of dual path platform (DPP) VetTB (immunoassay) test positive badgers and vaccination followed by release of DPP test negative badgers (‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’). Home range sizes, based on position data obtained from global positioning system collared badgers, were compared between the first year of the project, where no DPP test positive badgers were removed, and follow-up years 2–4 when DPP test positive badgers were removed. A total of 105 individual badgers were followed over 21 200 collar tracking nights. Using multivariable analyses, neither annual nor monthly home ranges differed significantly in size between years, suggesting they were not significantly altered by the bTB intervention that was applied in the study area.
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spelling pubmed-81613052021-06-07 Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland O'Hagan, M. J. H. Gordon, A. W. McCormick, C. M. Collins, S. F. Trimble, N. A. McGeown, C. F. McHugh, G. E. McBride, K. R. Menzies, F. D. Epidemiol Infect Original Paper The role of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) as a wildlife host has complicated the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Badger ranging behaviour has previously been found to be altered by culling of badgers and has been suggested to increase the transmission of bTB either among badgers or between badgers and cattle. In 2014, a five-year bTB intervention research project in a 100 km(2) area in Northern Ireland was initiated involving selective removal of dual path platform (DPP) VetTB (immunoassay) test positive badgers and vaccination followed by release of DPP test negative badgers (‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’). Home range sizes, based on position data obtained from global positioning system collared badgers, were compared between the first year of the project, where no DPP test positive badgers were removed, and follow-up years 2–4 when DPP test positive badgers were removed. A total of 105 individual badgers were followed over 21 200 collar tracking nights. Using multivariable analyses, neither annual nor monthly home ranges differed significantly in size between years, suggesting they were not significantly altered by the bTB intervention that was applied in the study area. Cambridge University Press 2021-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8161305/ /pubmed/33958017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001096 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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O'Hagan, M. J. H.
Gordon, A. W.
McCormick, C. M.
Collins, S. F.
Trimble, N. A.
McGeown, C. F.
McHugh, G. E.
McBride, K. R.
Menzies, F. D.
Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title_full Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title_fullStr Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title_full_unstemmed Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title_short Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland
title_sort effect of selective removal of badgers (meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘test and vaccinate or remove’ intervention in northern ireland
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33958017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001096
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