Oral Vaccination of Free-Living Badgers (Meles meles) with Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine Confers Protection against Tuberculosis

• Eamonn Gormley ,

  * E-mail: egormley@ucd.ie

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Deirdre Ní Bhuachalla,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• James O’Keeffe,

  Affiliation Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Head of Wildlife Unit, Agriculture House, Dublin, Ireland

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• Denise Murphy,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Frank E. Aldwell,

  Affiliation Immune Solutions Ltd, Centre for Innovation, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Tara Fitzsimons,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Paul Stanley,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Jamie A. Tratalos,

  Affiliation UCD Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis (CVERA), School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Guy McGrath,

  Affiliation UCD Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis (CVERA), School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Naomi Fogarty,

  Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Backweston, Co. Kildare, Ireland

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• Kevin Kenny,

  Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Backweston, Co. Kildare, Ireland

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• Simon J. More,

  Affiliation UCD Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis (CVERA), School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Locksley L. McV. Messam,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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• Leigh A. L. Corner

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

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