Reduced intestinal colonisation with F18-positive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in weaned pigs fed chicken egg antibody against the fimbriae

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 153-161

  Zúñiga, Armando ^a   Yokoyama, Hideaki ^b   Albicker Rippinger, Pia ^a   Eggenberger, Ernst ^a   Bertschinger, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Immunology Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Egg yolk antibody; Enterotoxigenic; Escherichia coli; Fimbriae F18; Pig; Post weaning diarrhoea; Prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FIMBRIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EGGS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; INTESTINES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0343811712     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00035-7     Document Type: Article

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