Increased colonization potential of Campylobacter jejuni strain 81116 after passage through chickens and its implication on the rate of transmission within flocks

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 213-215

  Cawthraw, S A ^a   Wassenaar, T M ^b,c   Ayling, R ^a   Newell, D G ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHICKEN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0029760181     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800001333     Document Type: Article

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