The effect of transportation stress on excretion rates of campylobacters in market-age broilers

Poultry Science

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 817-820

  Whyte, Paul ^a   Collins, J D ^a   McGill, K ^a   Monahan, C ^a   O'Mahony, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; Excretion; Fecal; Shedding; Transportation stress

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIRD DISEASE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; FECES; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STRESS; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FECES; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; STRESS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0035374966     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/80.6.817     Document Type: Article

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