A cross-sectional survey of Australian chicken farms to identify risk factors associated with seropositivity to Newcastle-disease virus

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 199-214

  East, I ^a   Kite, V ^b   Daniels, P ^c   Garner, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

^b Australian Chicken Meat Federation Inc   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biosecurity practices; Chicken industry; Newcastle disease; Risk factor; Survey

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHICKEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYGIENE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUSTRALIA; CHICKENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HYGIENE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; POULTRY DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VICTORIA;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 33750731702     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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