Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Abrupt events and population synchrony in the dynamics of Bovine Tuberculosis

  • Aristides Moustakas,
  • Matthew R. Evans,
  • Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos,
  • Yannis Markonis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04915-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The disease dynamics of bovine tuberculosis have been of interest given the pathogen’s effect on wild animal and livestock health. Here, the authors show that a brief cessation of testing for bovine tuberculosis in 2001 altered the population synchrony of the disease dynamics across regions of Great Britain.