Controlling the Transmission of Mastitis-causing Pathogens across Heterogeneous Dairy Herds
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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. Copyright c © 2005 IFAC
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تاریخ انتشار 2005