Single versus double testing of meat-juice samples for Salmonella antibodies, in the Danish pig-herd surveillance programme

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-165

  Ekeroth, Lars ^a   Alban, Lis ^b   Feld, Niels ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Danske Slagterier   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Herd classification; Mix ELISA; Pigs; Salmonella enterica; Single testing; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0041353629     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(03)00122-3     Document Type: Article

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