Quantitative Risk Assessment for African Horse Sickness in Live Horses Exported from South Africa.
African horse sickness (AHS) is a severe, often fatal, arbovirus infection of horses, transmitted by Culicoides spp. midges. AHS occurs in most of sub-Saharan Africa and is a significant impediment to export of live horses from infected countries, such as South Africa. A stochastic risk model was de...
Main Authors: | Evan S Sergeant, John D Grewar, Camilla T Weyer, Alan J Guthrie |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4795756?pdf=render |
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