Individual differences in contact rate can arise from host, group and landscape
heterogeneity and can result in different patterns of spatial spread for diseases in wildlife …

The introduced Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) is a maintenance host
for bovine tuberculosis (TB) in New Zealand and plays a central role in the TB problem in …

Effective management of infectious disease relies upon understanding mechanisms of
pathogen transmission. In particular, while models of disease dynamics usually assume …

Characterizing patterns of animal movement is a major aim in population ecology, and yet
doing so at an appropriate spatial scale remains a major challenge. Estimating the …

Estimates of population size and trappability inform vaccine efficacy modelling and are
required for adaptive management during prolonged wildlife vaccination campaigns. We …

The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle herds in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) is
partially hindered by spill-back infection from wild badgers (Meles meles). The aim of this …

Even when spatially explicit models are published in accessible international journals, they
are rarely reused by the scientific community. This is unfortunate, as these models contain …

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has significant socio-economic and welfare impacts on the cattle
industry in parts of the world. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, disease control is …

Managing infectious disease demands understanding pathogen transmission. In Britain,
transmission of Mycobacterium bovis from badgers (Meles meles) to cattle hinders the …

Diseases which can pass between animals and humans (zoonoses) have been headline
news several times in the last ten years. This paper looks at bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the …