Carrier status for Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria species in free range farm and market healthy indigenous chickens and ducks

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 529-533

  Njagi, L W ^a   Mbuthia, P G ^a   Bebora, L C ^a   Nyaga, P N ^a   Minga, U ^b   Olsen, J E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLOACA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUCK; FOOD CONTROL; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; LISTERIA; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; OROPHARYNX;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CHICKENS; CLOACA; DUCKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; KENYA; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; OROPHARYNX;

EID: 15844418319     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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