A conceptual model of tuberculosis transmission risk in free-ranging bison herds of northern Canada

• Main Author: Dewar, David
• Other Authors: Gates, C. Cormack, Boydell, Tony, Noble, Michael-Anne
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Free-ranging bison; tuberculosis transmission risk; Northwest Territories; Canada; Wood Buffalo; Nyarling River; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10170/484

Tuberculosis transmission in free-ranging bison of northern Canada is of significant concern to wildlife managers because of its effects on condition and mortality in bison herds and the potential for transmission to local hunters and neighbouring cattle populations. The chronic nature of tuberculos...