Controlling the transmission of mastitis-causing pathogens across heterogeneous dairy herds

<p style="text-align:justify;"> Using a mathematical model for the transmission of mastitis-causing pathogens in a dairy herd and parameter estimation, control strategies are derived for a number of different herds. In addition, a single common strategy is derived for control of all...

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Hlavní autoři: Evans, N, Cronin, D, White, L, Chappell, M, Chapman, M, Godfrey, K
Médium: Conference item
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Elsevier 2016
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Shrnutí:<p style="text-align:justify;"> Using a mathematical model for the transmission of mastitis-causing pathogens in a dairy herd and parameter estimation, control strategies are derived for a number of different herds. In addition, a single common strategy is derived for control of all of the herds. A key feature of all of the control strategies is that they minimise the combined costs associated with infection and treatment. Only a small decrease in performance results from developing a common strategy. </p>