Epidemiology and control of scrapie within a sheep flock.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0421

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Epidemiology and control of scrapie within a sheep flock.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jul 1998

Woolhouse M E, Stringer S M, Matthews L, Hunter N, Anderson R M

Abstract excerpt

Mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of scrapie are used to explore the expected course of an outbreak in a sheep flock, and the potential impacts of different control measures. All models incorporate sheep demography, a long and variable scrapie incubation period, horizontal and vert...

Topics

Animals
Carrier State
Computer Simulation
Disease Outbreaks
Disease Reservoirs
Disease Susceptibility
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Genotype
Incidence
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
Models, Biological
Prevalence
Scrapie
Sheep
United Kingdom

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