Experimental airborne transmission of Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 in pigs

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-80

  Berthelot Hérault, Florence ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^b   Labbé, Annie ^a   Cariolet, Roland ^a   Kobisch, Marylène ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne transmission; Pig bacteria; Streptococcus suis

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; INFECTION RATE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PALATINE TONSIL; PATHOGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0035801993     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(01)00376-5     Document Type: Article

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