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Preparing for a new GB strategy on bovine tuberculosis
Glossary
AHWS Animal Health & Welfare Strategy
DVM Divisional veterinary manager
EFRAC Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EU European Union
FMD Foot and mouth disease
FSA Food Standards Agency
IR Inconclusive reactor
ISG Independent Scientific Group
LVI Local veterinary inspector
M. bovis Mycobacterium bovis - bacteria which causes bovine TB
OIE World Organisation for Animal Health
RBCT Randomised badger culling trial
Reactor An animal which gives a positive result (i.e. reacts) to the tuberculin test
RIA Regulatory impact assessment
RTA Road traffic accident
SVS State Veterinary Service
TB Tuberculosis
VL Visible lesion
VLA Veterinary Laboratories Agency - carries out diseases of poultry, TB and general orders testing
VO Veterinary Officer
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