Resting pigs on transport trailers as an intervention strategy to reduce Salmonella enterica prevalence at slaughter

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1720-1723

  Rostagno, Marcos H ^a   Hurd, H Scott ^b   McKean, James D ^b  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 24644472842     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-68.8.1720     Document Type: Article

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