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Effect of selective removal of badgers (
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- Data-driven analysis of fine-scale badger movement in the UK.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Landscape as a Shared Space for Badgers and Cattle: Insights Into Indirect Contact and Bovine Tuberculosis Transmission Risk.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Bovine tuberculosis model validation against a field study of badger vaccination with selective culling.PloS one · 2025Article
- A scoping review on bovine tuberculosis highlights the need for novel data streams and analytical approaches to curb zoonotic diseases.Veterinary research · 2024Article
- Whole-Genome sequencing in routineMicrobial genomics · 2024Article
- Badger Ecology, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Population Management: Lessons from the Island of Ireland.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Review
- Assessing the impact of a test and vaccinate or remove badger intervention project on bovine tuberculosis levels in cattle herds.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Genomic epidemiology ofMicrobial genomics · 2023Article
- Impact of test, vaccinate or remove protocol on home ranges and nightly movements of badgers a medium density population.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Disturbance Ecology Meets Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) Epidemiology: A Before-and-After Study on the Association between Forest Clearfelling and bTB Herd Risk in Cattle Herds.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The role of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) as a wildlife host has complicated the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Badger ranging behaviour has previously been found to be altered by culling of badgers and has been suggested to increase the transmission of bTB either among badgers or between badgers and cattle. In 2014, a five-year bTB intervention research project in a 100 km2 area in Northern Ireland was initiated involving selective removal of dual path platform (DPP) VetTB (immunoassay) test positive badgers and vaccination followed by release of DPP test negative badgers ('Test and Vaccinate or Remove'). Home range sizes, based on position data obtained from global positioning system collared badgers, were compared between the first year of the project, where no DPP test positive badgers were removed, and follow-up years 2-4 when DPP test positive badgers were removed. A total of 105 individual badgers were followed over 21 200 collar tracking nights. Using multivariable analyses, neither annual nor monthly home ranges differed significantly in size between years, suggesting they were not significantly altered by the bTB intervention that was applied in the study area.
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