Effects of 6/85-strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum inoculation alone at ten weeks of age or in conjunction with F-strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum inoculation overlays at twenty-two or forty-five weeks of age on the performance of commercial egg-laying hens

Poultry Science

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 588-593

  Viscione, K A ^a   Branton, S L ^b   Vance, A M ^b   Gerard, P D ^c   Whitmarsh, S K ^a   Peebles, E D ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POULTRY RESEARCH UNIT   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

6 85 strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum; F strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum; Inoculation; Mycoplasma gallisepticum; Performance

Indexed keywords

AVES; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM;

EID: 40949141543     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2007-00424     Document Type: Article

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