We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

ABSTRACT A hallmark assumption of traditional approaches to disease modelling is that
individuals within a given population mix uniformly and at random. However, this …

Quantifying pathogen transmission in multi-host systems is difficult, as exemplified in bovine
tuberculosis (bTB) systems, but is crucial for control. The agent of bTB, Mycobacterium bovis …

Transmission of infectious diseases is strongly influenced by who contacts whom. Despite
the global distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in free-living wild mammal populations, little is …

ABSTRACT 1 Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis and
related members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Infection affects not only cattle …

A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever
reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype …

Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) are an important wildlife reservoir of tuberculosis
(Mycobacterium bovis) infection in Ireland and the United Kingdom. As part of national …

ABSTRACT 1 The production of food for human consumption has led to an historical and
global conflict with terrestrial carnivores, which in turn has resulted in the extinction or …

Although disease hosts are classically assumed to interact randomly [1], infection is likely to
spread across structured and dynamic contact networks [2]. We used social network …

The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) is implicated in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis
(TB) to cattle in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Badger culling has been employed for the …