Aerosol route enhances the contamination of intact eggs and muscle of experimentally infected laying hens by Salmonella typhimurium DT104

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 203-207

  Leach, Steve A ^a   Williams, Ann ^a   Davies, Angela C ^a   Wilson, Jenny ^a   Marsh, Philip D ^a   Humphrey, Tom J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Airborne; DT104; Egg; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BEAK; DOSE RESPONSE; EGG LAYING; FECES; HEN; INFECTION RATE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUSCLE; NEBULIZER; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EGGS; FECES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POULTRY DISEASES; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032965660     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00606-5     Document Type: Article

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