Oral Vaccination of Free-Living Badgers (Meles meles) with Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine Confers Protection against Tuberculosis.
A field trial was conducted to investigate the impact of oral vaccination of free-living badgers against natural-transmitted Mycobacterium bovis infection. For a period of three years badgers were captured over seven sweeps in three zones and assigned for oral vaccination with a lipid-encapsulated B...
Main Authors: | Eamonn Gormley, Deirdre Ní Bhuachalla, James O'Keeffe, Denise Murphy, Frank E Aldwell, Tara Fitzsimons, Paul Stanley, Jamie A Tratalos, Guy McGrath, Naomi Fogarty, Kevin Kenny, Simon J More, Locksley L McV Messam, Leigh A L Corner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5266210?pdf=render |
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