Flock health indicators and Campylobacter spp. in commercial housed broilers reared in Great Britain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5408-5413

  Bull, Stephanie A ^a,d   Thomas, Alastair ^a,e   Humphrey, Thomas ^a   Ellis Iversen, Johanne ^b   Cook, Alasdair J ^b   Lovell, Roger ^a   Jorgensen, Frieda ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MATERIALS HANDLING; PLATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CAMPYLOBACTER; GREAT BRITAIN;

HEALTH;

BACTERIUM; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; HEALTH STATUS; POULTRY; REARING;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; CAMPYLOBACTER; DERMATITIS; HERD; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POULTRY FARMING; PREVALENCE; REARING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CECUM; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DERMATITIS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOT DISEASES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CAMPYLOBACTER;

EID: 50949105111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00462-08     Document Type: Article

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