Is endemic stability of tick-borne disease in cattle a useful concept?
Trends Parasitol
; 28(3): 85-9, 2012 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-22277132
ABSTRACT
Endemic stability is a widely used term in the epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases. It is generally accepted to refer to a state of a host-tick-pathogen interaction in which there is a high level of challenge of calves by infected ticks, absence of clinical disease in calves despite infection, and a high level of immunity in adult cattle with consequent low incidence of clinical disease. Although endemic stability is a valid epidemiological concept, the modelling studies that underpinned subsequent studies on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases were specific to a single host-tick-pathogen system, and values derived from these models should not be applied in other regions or host-tick-pathogen systems.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Babesiose
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Carrapatos
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Doenças dos Bovinos
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Doenças Endêmicas
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article