Monitoring Mycobacterium bovis in Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) killed by vehicles in Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2011
Monitoring Mycobacterium bovis in Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) killed by vehicles in Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2011
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DOI：
10.1136/vr.103934
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Abernethy, Darrell A.
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作者：
Courcier, Emily A.;Menzies, Fraser D.;Abernethy, Darrell A.
尽管有广泛的长期根除计划，牛结核病（bTB）仍然在不列颠群岛的大部分地区流行。2010/2011年，北爱尔兰国家根除计划的成本估计为2300万英镑。有证据表明，獾在牛分枝杆菌的维持和传播中发挥了作用（艾伦等人审查过）。北爱尔兰是一个小国（13843平方公里），农业用地以生产牧草为主，在2万个农场中养活了160万头牛据估计，獾的数量为34,100只（95%置信区间（CI） 26,200至42,000），分布广泛，包含在7600个社会群体中（95%置信区间（CI） 6200至9000）1998年在北爱尔兰开始了一项道路交通事故（RTA）调查，目的是描述獾种群中牛乳杆菌的发生情况。
Despite extensive long-term eradication programmes, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains endemic in much of the British Isles. The cost of the national eradication programme in Northern Ireland was estimated at £23 million in 2010/2011.1 There is evidence that badgers play a role in the maintenance and spread of Mycobacterium bovis to cattle (as reviewed by Allen and others2). Northern Ireland is a small country (13,843 km2) with an agricultural land that is dominated by grass production, which supports 1.6 million cattle among 20,000 farms.3 The estimated badger population of 34,100 (95 per cent confidence interval (CI) 26,200 to 42,000) is widespread and contained within 7600 social groups (95 per cent CI 6200 to 9000).4 A road traffic accident (RTA) survey began in 1998 in Northern Ireland with the aim of describing the occurrence of M bovis within the badger population.