Application of the agar gel precipitin test to detect antibodies to Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis in serum and egg yolks from infected hens

Poultry Science

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1246-1250

  Holt, Peter S ^a,b   Stone, H D ^a   Gast, R K ^a   Greene, C R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SE Poultry Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agar gel precipitin test; Egg yolk antibody; Salmonella enteritidis; Serology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHICKEN; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHICKENS; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; POULTRY DISEASES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034276750     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/79.9.1246     Document Type: Article

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