Concentration of airborne endotoxins and airborne bacteria in Chinese rabbit houses

Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 40-44

  Duan, Huiyong ^a   Chai, Tongjie ^a   Müller, Wolfgang ^b   Zucker, Bert Andree ^b  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne bacteria; Airborne endotoxins; Rabbit houses

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RABBIT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENDOTOXINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOUSING, ANIMAL; RABBITS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA;

EID: 30844448779     PISSN: 00059366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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