Transmission of F4+ E. coli in groups of early weaned piglets

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 459-468

  Geenen, Petra L ^a,b   Dopfer D ^a   Van der Meulen, J ^a   De Jong, M C M ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RECEPTOR; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI F 4; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SWINE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS STRAIN; WEANING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 20844446608     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268804003292     Document Type: Article

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