Isolation and identification of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale from commercial turkey flocks in the upper midwest

Avian Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 219-221

  Roepke, Donald C ^a   Back, Alberto ^b   Shaw, Daniel P ^b   Nagaraja, Kakambi V ^b   Sprenger, Stephanie J ^b   Halvorson, David A ^b  

^a Jerome Foods   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; INFECTIVITY; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMONIA; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRULENCE;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; ORNITHOBACTERIUM RHINOTRACHEALE;

EID: 0031968945     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1592601     Document Type: Article

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