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Badgers and bovine TB
Badgers and bovine TB
- Source :
- Veterinary Record. 184:806-806
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- In response to correspondence in last week’s issue on the role of badgers in bovine TB (bTB) ( VR , 22 June 2019, vol 184, p 774-775). Roger Blowey might consider the cited recent reference1 covering trial blindness and David King’s input. The paper challenges the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) finding that proactive badger culling can influence rates of new herd breakdown. Blindness is considered a fundamental quality of good experimental design. In the RBCT it is not inconceivable that …
- Subjects :
- Tuberculosis
Badger
040301 veterinary sciences
Mustelidae
Culling
Population control
0403 veterinary science
Environmental health
biology.animal
medicine
Animals
Mycobacterium bovis
General Veterinary
Blindness
biology
business.industry
0402 animal and dairy science
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
040201 dairy & animal science
Herd
Cattle
business
Tuberculosis, Bovine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00424900
- Volume :
- 184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Veterinary Record
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....abe2226a43a213f9f7a734d96979d694
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.l4384