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Diminishing returns in bovine tuberculosis control
- Source :
- Epidemiol Infect
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Abstract
- SUMMARYMycobacterium bovis causes bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in many mammals including cattle, deer and brushtail possum. The aim of this study was to estimate the strength of association, using model selection (AICc) regression analyses, between the proportion of cattle and farmed deer herds with bTB in New Zealand and annual costs of TB control, namely disease control in livestock, in wildlife or in a combination of the two. There was more support for curved (concave up) than linear models which related the proportion of cattle and farmed deer herds with bTB to the annual control costs. The curved, concave-up, best-fitting relationships showed diminishing returns with no positive asymptote and implied TB eradication is feasible in New Zealand.
- Subjects :
- Disease reservoir
Veterinary medicine
Tuberculosis
Epidemiology
animal diseases
Wildlife
Biology
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Disease Eradication
Disease Reservoirs
Mycobacterium bovis
Models, Statistical
business.industry
Deer
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Original Papers
Infectious Diseases
Herd
Brushtail possum
Regression Analysis
Livestock
Cattle
Diminishing returns
Population Control
business
Tuberculosis, Bovine
Trichosurus
New Zealand
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Epidemiol Infect
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....254f2c0d781f69d976105d990c57d972