Is vaccination a viable method to control Johne’s disease caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis? Data from 12 million ovine vaccinations and 7.6 million carcass examinations in New South Wales, Australia from 1999–2009

• Ian J. Links ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ian J. Links, Laurence J. Denholm, Marilyn Evers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ijlinks48@gmail.com

  Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (An alliance of Charles Sturt University and NSW Department of Primary Industries), Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9496-2600

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• Laurence J. Denholm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ian J. Links, Laurence J. Denholm, Marilyn Evers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Strategy and Delivery Group, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

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• Marilyn Evers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ian J. Links, Laurence J. Denholm, Marilyn Evers

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Formerly NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

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• Lloyd J. Kingham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

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• Robert J. Greenstein

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation James J. Peters VAMC, Bronx, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1224-2192

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