Interspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?

Abstract In Great Britain and Ireland, badgers (Meles meles) are a wildlife reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis and implicated in bovine tuberculosis transmission to domestic cattle. The route of disease transmission is unknown with direct, so‐called “nose‐to‐nose,” contact between hosts being extremel...

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Main Authors: Emma L. Campbell, Andrew W. Byrne, Fraser D. Menzies, Kathryn R. McBride, Carl M. McCormick, Michael Scantlebury, Neil Reid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-08-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5282