The epidemiology of BSE in cattle herds in Great Britain. II. Model construction and analysis of transmission dynamics.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on July 29, 1997

Authors

N M Ferguson1, C A Donnelly, M E Woolhouse, R M Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

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