The Gwaredu BVD programme has been built on insight and research as well as working in collaboration with other eradication programmes across the UK to inform best practice to eradicate BVD in Wales.
Please see below for a list of research and citations used as evidence for the need to eradicate BVD.
Strategy Selection
Stott AW, Gunn GJ.
Rev Sci Tech. 2017 Apr;36(1):227-236. doi: 10.20506/rst.36.1.2624.
Humphry RW, Brülisauer F, McKendrick IJ, Nettleton PF, Gunn GJ.
Vet Rec. 2012 Nov 3;171(18):445. doi: 10.1136/vr.100542. Epub 2012 Sep 4.
Exploring the longitudinal dynamics of herd BVD antibody test results using model-based clustering.
Eze JI, Innocent GT, Adam K, Huntley S, Gunn GJ.
Sci Rep. 2019 Aug 6;9(1):11353. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47339-6.
Predicted costs and benefits of eradicating BVDV from Ireland.
Stott AW, Humphry RW, Gunn GJ, Higgins I, Hennessy T, O'Flaherty J, Graham DA.
Ir Vet J. 2012 Jul 2;65(1):12. doi: 10.1186/2046-0481-65-12.
Considerations on BVD eradication for the Irish livestock industry.
Barrett DJ, More SJ, Graham DA, O'Flaherty J, Doherty ML, Gunn HM.
Ir Vet J. 2011 Oct 3;64:12. doi: 10.1186/2046-0481-64-12.
The prevalence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus infection in beef suckler herds in Scotland.
Brülisauer F, Lewis FI, Ganser AG, McKendrick IJ, Gunn GJ.
Vet J. 2010 Nov;186(2):226-31. doi: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2009.08.011. Epub 2009 Sep 10
Analysis of Pan-European attitudes to the eradication and control of bovine viral diarrhoea.
Heffernan C, Misturelli F, Nielsen L, Gunn GJ, Yu J.
Vet Rec. 2009 Feb 7;164(6):163-7.
The control of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in Europe: today and in the future.
Lindberg A, Brownlie J, Gunn GJ, Houe H, Moennig V, Saatkamp HW, Sandvik T, Valle PS.
Rev Sci Tech. 2006 Dec;25(3):961-79. Review.
Modelling BVD at herd level compared with individual animal level.
Humphry RW, Stott AW, Gunn GJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2005 Nov 15;72(1-2):169-75; discussion 215-9. Epub 2005 Oct 6.
Optimal risk management versus willingness to pay for BVDV control options.
Santarossa JM, Stott AW, Humphry RW, Gunn GJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2005 Nov 15;72(1-2):183-7; discussion 215-9. Epub 2005 Sep 19.
Graham DA, Clegg TA, Thulke HH, O'Sullivan P, McGrath G, More SJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2016 Apr 1;126:30-8. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2016.01.017. Epub 2016 Jan 21.
Laureyns J, Piepers S, Ribbens S, Sarrazin S, De Vliegher S, Van Crombrugge JM, Dewulf J.
Prev Vet Med. 2013 Apr 1;109(1-2):148-51. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.09.013. Epub 2012 Oct 9.
R. E. Booth, M. P. Cranwell, J. Brownlie
Veterinary Record Apr 2013, 172 (17) 449; DOI: 10.1136/vr.101195
Biosecurity and farmer behaviour
Azbel-Jackson L, Heffernan C, Gunn G, Brownlie J.
PLoS One. 2018 Feb 12;13(2):e0179877. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179877. eCollection 2018.
Heffernan C, Azbel-Jackson L, Brownlie J, Gunn G.
PLoS One. 2016 Mar 29;11(3):e0152295. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152295. eCollection 2016.
Tratalos JA, Graham DA, More SJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2017 Jul 1;142:30-38. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2017.04.005. Epub 2017 Apr 20.
Clegg TA, Graham DA, O'Sullivan P, McGrath G, More SJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2016 Nov 1;134:128
Economics of BVD
Stott AW, Gunn GJ.
Rev Sci Tech. 2017 Apr;36(1):227-236. doi: 10.20506/rst.36.1.2624.
An integrated approach to assessing the viability of eradicating BVD in Scottish beef suckler herds.
McCormick BJ, Stott AW, Brülisauer F, Vosough Ahmadi B, Gunn GJ.
Vet Microbiol. 2010 Apr 21;142(1-2):129-36. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.09.053. Epub 2009 Sep 30.
Weldegebriel HT, Gunn GJ, Stott AW.
Prev Vet Med. 2009 Jan 1;88(1):49-56. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.07.001. Epub 2008 Oct 19.
Stott AW, Gunn GJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2008 May 15;84(3-4):179-93. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.12.001. Epub 2008 Feb 19
Modelling and costing BVD outbreaks in beef herds.
Gunn GJ, Stott AW, Humphry RW.
Vet J. 2004 Mar;167(2):143-9.
Stott AW, Lloyd J, Humphry RW, Gunn GJ.
Prev Vet Med. 2003 May 30;59(1-2):51-66.
Genetics
Booth RE, Thomas CJ, El-Attar LM, Gunn G, Brownlie J.
Vet Res. 2013 Jun 19;44:43. doi: 10.1186/1297-9716-44-43.
BVD virus genotype 2 in British cattle.
Nettleton PF, Gunn G.
Vet Rec. 2002 Nov 16;151(20):616. No abstract available.