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Nature 439, 843-846 (14 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature04454;

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Positive and negative effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle

Human and livestock diseases can be difficult to control where infection persists in wildlife populations. For three decades, European badgers (Meles meles) have been culled by the British government in a series of attempts to limit the spread of Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB), to cattle.

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