On-farm monitoring of mouse-invasive Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis and a model for its association with the production of contaminated eggs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1588-1593

  Guard Petter, Jean ^a   Henzler, David J ^c,d   Rahman, M Mahbubur ^b   Carlson, Russell W ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d Bureau of Plant Industry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DISEASE CARRIER; EGG; HEN; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SPLEEN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERITIDIS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

EID: 0030901924     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1588-1593.1997     Document Type: Article

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