A data-driven individual-based model of infectious disease in livestock operation: A validation study for paratuberculosis.

Chronic livestock diseases cause large financial loss and affect animal health and welfare. Controlling these diseases mostly requires precise information on both individual animal and population dynamics to inform the farmer's decisions, but even successful control programmes do by no means as...

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Main Authors: Mohammad A Al-Mamun, Rebecca L Smith, Annette Nigsch, Ynte H Schukken, Yrjo T Gröhn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203177