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Culling wildlife as a form of disease management can have unexpected and sometimes counterproductive outcomes. In the UK, badgers Meles meles are cull...
Read moreIncreasing sophistication of population viability analysis has broadened our capacity to model population change while accounting for system complexit...
Read moreThe earthworm Lumbricus terrestris was the predominant food of the European badger; in the badger's habitat, L. terrestris was most abundant under pas...
Read moreDisease transmission can occur between and within species for diseases with multiple hosts. If these diseases are undesirable, for economic or health ...
Read moreEstimating the basic reproductive rate (R0) of disease and/or the related threshold population density (KT) for disease establishment is fundamental t...
Read moreIn recent years bovine tuberculosis (TB) incidence in cattle has been increasing in south-west England. The European badger Meles meles is implicated ...
Read moreSpecies that depend on anthropogenic waste for food can remove pathogens that pose health risks to humans and livestock, thereby saving lives and mone...
Read moreBovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, has serious consequences for Britain's cattle industry. European badgers (Meles meles) can tr...
Read moreCurrent methods for identifying and predicting infectious disease dynamics in wildlife populations are limited. Pathogen transmission dynamics can be ...
Read moreWe present methods for estimating disease transmission coefficients in wildlife using Leptospira interrogans infection (a bacterial disease transmitte...
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