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

Flavie Vial; W. Thomas Johnston; Christl A. Donnelly

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018058

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

Flavie Vial ,

* E-mail: f.vial@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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W. Thomas Johnston,

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Christl A. Donnelly

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Local Cattle and Badger Populations Affect the Risk of Confirmed Tuberculosis in British Cattle Herds

Flavie Vial,
W. Thomas Johnston,
Christl A. Donnelly

Published: March 28, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018058

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badger density and bTB

Posted by evanr on 29 May 2011 at 11:09 GMT

this paper shows a correlation between badger density and herdbreakdowns. is it possible to arrive at a figure of badger density in terms of setts or other yardstick that would assist in assesing the level of badger culling required to maintain a level of "eradication" of tb in cattle?

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