Escherichia coli, salmonella, and mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Wild European starlings at a Kansas cattle feedlot

Avian Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 544-551

  Gaukler, Shannon M ^a   Linz, George M ^b   Sherwood, Julie S ^a   Dyer, Neil W ^a   Bleier, William J ^a   Wannemuehler, Yvonne M ^c   Nolan, Lisa K ^c   Logue, Catherine M ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC); Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli O157:H7; European starling; Multiplex PCR; Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium; Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIRD DISEASE; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; STARLING; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRD DISEASES; CATTLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; KANSAS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; VIRULENCE;

AVES; BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; SALMONELLA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 73449102540     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/8920-050809-Reg.1     Document Type: Article

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