dc.contributor.author | Godfray, HCJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Donnelly, CA | |
dc.contributor.author | Kao, RR | |
dc.contributor.author | Macdonald, DW | |
dc.contributor.author | McDonald, RA | |
dc.contributor.author | Petrokofsky, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Wood, JLN | |
dc.contributor.author | Woodroffe, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Young, DB | |
dc.contributor.author | McLean, AR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-09T13:41:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-10-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a very important disease of cattle in Great Britain, where it has been increasing in incidence and geographical distribution. In addition to cattle, it infects other species of domestic and wild animals, in particular the European badger (Meles meles). Policy to control bTB is vigorously debated and contentious because of its implications for the livestock industry and because some policy options involve culling badgers, the most important wildlife reservoir. This paper describes a project to provide a succinct summary of the natural science evidence base relevant to the control of bTB, couched in terms that are as policy-neutral as possible. Each evidence statement is placed into one of four categories describing the nature of the underlying information. The evidence summary forms the appendix to this paper and an annotated bibliography is provided in the electronic supplementary material. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The project was funded by the Oxford Martin School (part of the University of Oxford), and though many groups were consulted, the project was conducted completely independently of any stakeholder. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 280 (1768), article 20131634 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2013.1634 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26381 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23926157 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open access. © 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | badgers | en_GB |
dc.subject | bovine tuberculosis | en_GB |
dc.subject | cattle | en_GB |
dc.subject | epidemiology | en_GB |
dc.subject | vaccination | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cattle | en_GB |
dc.subject | Geography | en_GB |
dc.subject | Incidence | en_GB |
dc.subject | Risk Reduction Behavior | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tuberculosis, Bovine | en_GB |
dc.subject | United Kingdom | en_GB |
dc.title | A restatement of the natural science evidence base relevant to the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-09T13:41:21Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |