Spatial dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain (2010-2012).

ABSTRACT: Progress in control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is often not uniform, usually due to the effect of one or more sometimes unknown epidemiological factors impairing the success of eradication programs. Use of spatial analysis can help to identify clusters of persistence of disease, leading to the identification of these factors thus allowing the implementation of targeted control measures, and may provide some insights of disease transmission, particularly when combined with molecular typing techniques. Here, the spatial dynamics of bTB in a high prevalence region of Spain were assessed during a three year period (2010-2012) using data from the eradication campaigns to detect clusters of positive bTB herds and of those infected with certain Mycobacterium bovis strains (characterized using s

SUBMITTER: de la Cruz ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4275235 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature