Quantifying transmission of campylobacter jejuni in commercial broiler flocks

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 625-628

  Van Gerwe, Twan ^a   Miflin, Jeanette K ^b   Templeton, Jillian M ^b   Bouma, Annemarie ^a   Wagenaar, Jaap A ^a   Jacobs Reitsma, Wilma F ^c   Stegeman, Arjan ^a   Klinkenberg, Don ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GASTROENTERITIS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BROILER FLOCKS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPP; FIELD DATUM; HUMAN EXPOSURES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SAMPLING DATUM; TRANSMISSION RATES;

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POULTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POULTRY DISEASES;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 59649130082     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01912-08     Document Type: Article

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