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Modelling the national scrapie eradication programme in the UK.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Dec 2001
Kao R R, Gravenor M B, McLean A R
Abstract excerpt
In accordance with a policy to eliminate all transmissible spongiform encephalopathies from the food chain, a national untargeted ram breeding programme to eliminate scrapie in the UK is in the final stages of planning. Here we formulate a model of flock-to-flock scrapie transmission, in order to consider the effect of a targeted breeding programme which is in the early stages of consideration. We estimate the...
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