Establishing a campylobacter-free pig population through a top-down approach

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 479-484

  Weijtens, M J B M ^a,c   Urlings, H A P ^a   Van Der Plas, J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MAMMALS;

CAMPYLOBACTERS; ERIC-PCR; FATTENING PIGS; GENETIC TYPING; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

FARMS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREEDING; CAMPYLOBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034124807     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765x.2000.00750.x     Document Type: Article

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