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Patterns of direct and indirect contact between cattle and badgers naturally infected with tuberculosis.
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- Partitioning Social and Spatial Drivers of Infection Risk.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Landscape as a Shared Space for Badgers and Cattle: Insights Into Indirect Contact and Bovine Tuberculosis Transmission Risk.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- A scoping review on bovine tuberculosis highlights the need for novel data streams and analytical approaches to curb zoonotic diseases.Veterinary research · 2024Article
- Host-, Environment-, or Human-Related Effects Drive Interspecies Interactions in an Animal Tuberculosis Multi-Host Community Depending on the Host and Season.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Assessing the impact of a test and vaccinate or remove badger intervention project on bovine tuberculosis levels in cattle herds.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Transmission of antibiotic resistance at the wildlife-livestock interface.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Interaction Patterns between Wildlife and Cattle Reveal Opportunities for Mycobacteria Transmission in Farms from North-Eastern Atlantic Iberian Peninsula.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Characterization of potential superspreader farms for bovine tuberculosis: A review.Veterinary medicine and science · 2021Review
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- Wildlife surveillance using deep learning methods.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Interspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Free-Ranging Pig and Wild Boar Interactions in an Endemic Area of African Swine Fever.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Article
- A new bovine tuberculosis model for England and Wales (BoTMEW) to simulate epidemiology, surveillance and control.BMC veterinary research · 2018Article
- Modeling as a Decision Support Tool for Bovine TB Control Programs in Wildlife.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2018Review
- Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain and Ireland - A Perfect Storm? the Confluence of Potential Ecological and Epidemiological Impediments to Controlling a Chronic Infectious Disease.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2018Article
- A review of risk factors for bovine tuberculosis infection in cattle in the UK and Ireland.Epidemiology and infection · 2016Review
- Disease-emergence dynamics and control in a socially-structured wildlife species.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) due to infection with Mycobacterium bovis is transmitted between cattle and badgers (Meles meles) in the UK and Ireland but it is unclear where or when transmission occurs. We investigated direct and indirect interactions between badgers and cattle using automated proximity loggers on animals and at badger latrines located on pasture, in an area of south-west England with a high-density badger population. Direct contacts (interactions within 1.4 m) between badgers and cattle at pasture were very rare (four out of >500000 recorded animal-to-animal contacts) despite ample opportunity for interactions to occur. Indirect interactions (visits to badger latrines by badgers and cattle) were two orders of magnitude more frequent than direct contacts: 400 visits by badgers and 1700 visits by cattle were recorded. This suggests that indirect contacts might be more important than direct contacts in terms of disease transmission at pasture. The TB infection status of individual badgers (ascribed with 93% accuracy using three diagnostic tests) did not affect the frequency or duration of their visits to latrines located on pasture grazed by cattle. Nevertheless, there was wide variation in contact behaviour between individuals, which highlights the importance of understanding heterogeneity in contact patterns when developing strategies to control disease spread in wildlife and livestock.
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