Prevalence, disease associations and risk factors for colonization with intestinal spirochaetes (Brachyspira spp.) in flocks of laying hens in north-eastern Italy

Avian Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-286

  Bano, L ^a   Merialdi, G ^b   Bonilauri, P ^b   Dall'Anese, G ^c   Capello, K ^a   Comin, D ^a   Cattoli, G ^a   Sanguinetti, V ^c   Hampson, D J ^d   Agnoletti, F ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BRACHYSPIRA; CHICKEN; EGG LAYING; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BRACHYSPIRA; CARRIER STATE; CHICKENS; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; ITALY; OVIPOSITION; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

AVES; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA INTERMEDIA; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; GALLUS GALLUS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 45849142247     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450802043726     Document Type: Article

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