A descriptive analysis of the growth of unrecorded interactions amongst cattle-raising premises in Scotland and their implications for disease spread
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- 作者：Jessica Enright ; Rowland R Kao
- 关键词：Cattle movement network ; Modeling ; Scotland
- 刊名：BMC Veterinary Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：12
- 期：1
- 全文大小：6,202 KB
- 刊物主题：Veterinary Medicine; Zoology; Transgenics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1746-6148
文摘
Background Individual animal-level reporting of cattle movements between agricultural holdings is in place in Scotland, and the resulting detailed movement data are used to inform epidemiological models and intervention. However, recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of registered links that allow Scottish farmers to move cattle between linked holdings without reporting.