Time-dependent recovery of Mycoplasma lipofaciens (strain ML64) from incubated infertile chicken eggs and dead in shell chicken embryos

Avian Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 441-443

  Lierz, Michael ^a   Hafez, Hafez M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accipitridae; Artificial incubation; Falconidae; Mycoplasma lipofaciens; Raptors; Reproduction; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICK EMBRYO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FALCONIFORMES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMOSIS; OOCYTE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CHICK EMBRYO; FALCONIFORMES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OVUM; TIME FACTORS;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITRIDAE; AVES; FALCONIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA LIPOFACIENS; MYCOPLASMATALES; RAPTORES;

EID: 54249128881     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/8200-122807-Reg.1     Document Type: Article

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