Open AccessImpacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial
Author(s) -
Christl A. Donnelly,
Wei Gao,
W. Thomas Johnston,
David Cox,
Roșie Woodroffe,
F.J. Bourne,
C. L. Cheeseman,
Richard S. CliftonHadley,
G. Gettinby,
Peter Gilks,
Helen E. Jenkins,
Andrea M. Le Fevre,
John McInerney,
W. Ivan Morrison
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.04.001
Subject(s) - culling , badger , herd , incidence (geometry) , demography , confidence interval , veterinary medicine , medicine , relative risk , zoology , biology , ecology , sociology , optics , physics
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major problem for British cattle farmers. Failure to control the infection has been linked to transmission from European badgers; badger culling has therefore formed a component of British TB control policy since 1973.
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