Identification of risk factors for the prevalence and persistence of Salmonella in Belgian broiler chicken flocks

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 211-222

  Namata, Harriet ^a   Welby, Sarah ^b   Aerts, Marc ^a   Faes, Christel ^a   Abrahantes, José Cortiñas ^a   Imberechts, Hein ^b   Vermeersch, Katie ^c   Hooyberghs, Jozef ^c   Méroc, Estelle ^b   Mintiens, Koen ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Broiler chicken; Conditional probability; Intra class correlation; Joint probability; Repeated data; Risk factors; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BELGIUM; CHICKENS; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

AVES; SALMONELLA;

EID: 67349213646     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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