The effect of outdoor production on the seroprevalence of Lawsonia intracellularis in growing-finishing pigs in a large pig production unit infected with endemic porcine proliferative enteropathy

Deutsche Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-75

  Bona, B ^a   Bilkei, G ^a  

^a Bilkei Consulting AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lawsonia intracellularis; Outdoor; Pig; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GROWTH; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LAWSONIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROATIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; PREGNANCY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0038476222     PISSN: 03416593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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