Geographic and topographic determinants of local FMD transmission applied to the 2001 UK FMD epidemic

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Models of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) transmission have assumed a homogeneous landscape across which Euclidean distance is a suitable measure of the spatial dependency of transmission. This paper investigated features of the landsca...

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Main Authors: Woolhouse Mark EJ, Savill Nicholas J, Shaw Darren J, Bessell Paul R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-10-01
Series:BMC Veterinary Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1746-6148/4/40