Bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand: epidemiology and models.
Bovine tuberculosis is New Zealand's most serious animal health problem because of its threat as a nontariff trade barrier to livestock export, and because a wildlife reservoir of 70 million brushtail possums seriously constrains its control. Mathematical models have contributed significantly to current control strategies and have highlighted some key questions of wider epidemiological significance.
Biological Control Group, New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Ltd, Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand.
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D008954:Models, Biological; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control