Disease Spread through Animal Movements: A Static and Temporal Network Analysis of Pig Trade in Germany.

BACKGROUND:Animal trade plays an important role for the spread of infectious diseases in livestock populations. The central question of this work is how infectious diseases can potentially spread via trade in such a livestock population. We address this question by analyzing the underlying network o...

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Main Authors: Hartmut H K Lentz, Andreas Koher, Philipp Hövel, Jörn Gethmann, Carola Sauter-Louis, Thomas Selhorst, Franz J Conraths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4859575?pdf=render