Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in pigs and pig houses in Finland

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 371-373

  Laukkanen, Riikka ^a   Niskanen, Taina ^a   Fredriksson Ahomaa, Maria ^a,b   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FECES; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; TONSIL; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIOSIS;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; FECES; FINLAND; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICROCLIMATE; SWINE; TONSIL; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SUS SCROFA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037792178     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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