Local cattle and badger populations affect the risk of confirmed tuberculosis in British cattle herds

TY - JOUR

T1 - Local cattle and badger populations affect the risk of confirmed tuberculosis in British cattle herds

AU - Vial, Flavie

AU - Johnston, W Thomas

AU - Donnelly, Christl A

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching in 1998 the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of badger (Meles meles) culling as a control strategy. Our study complements previous analyses of the RBCT data (focusing on treatment effects) by presenting analyses of herd-level risks factors associated with the probability of a confirmed bTB breakdown in herds within each treatment: repeated widespread proactive culling, localized reactive culling and no culling (survey-only).

AB - The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching in 1998 the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of badger (Meles meles) culling as a control strategy. Our study complements previous analyses of the RBCT data (focusing on treatment effects) by presenting analyses of herd-level risks factors associated with the probability of a confirmed bTB breakdown in herds within each treatment: repeated widespread proactive culling, localized reactive culling and no culling (survey-only).

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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0018058

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0018058

M3 - Article

C2 - 21464920

SN - 1932-6203

VL - 6

SP - e18058

JO - PLoS ONE

JF - PLoS ONE

IS - 3

M1 - e18058

ER -