Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial

Christl A Donnelly; Gao Wei; W Thomas Johnston; D R Cox; Rosie Woodroffe; F John Bourne; C L Cheeseman; Richard S Clifton-Hadley; George Gettinby; Peter Gilks; Helen E Jenkins; Andrea M Le Fevre; John P McInerney; W Ivan Morrison

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2007.04.001

Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial

Christl A Donnelly, Gao Wei, W Thomas Johnston, D R Cox, Rosie Woodroffe, F John Bourne, C L Cheeseman, Richard S Clifton-Hadley, George Gettinby, Peter Gilks, Helen E Jenkins, Andrea M Le Fevre, John P McInerney, W Ivan Morrison

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	300-8
Number of pages	9
Journal	International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2007.04.001
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Donnelly, C. A., Wei, G., Johnston, W. T., Cox, D. R., Woodroffe, R., Bourne, F. J., Cheeseman, C. L., Clifton-Hadley, R. S., Gettinby, G., Gilks, P., Jenkins, H. E., Le Fevre, A. M., McInerney, J. P., & Morrison, W. I. (2007). Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial. International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 11(4), 300-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2007.04.001

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Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial. / Donnelly, Christl A; Wei, Gao; Johnston, W Thomas et al.
In: International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2007, p. 300-8.

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