Experimental study on possible transmission of the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae to chickens by the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-307

  Brännström, Sara ^a,b   Hansson, Ingrid ^a   Chirico, Jan ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chicken; Dermanyssus gallinae; Erysipelas; Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae; Poultry red mite; Vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFECTIVITY; INOCULATION; MITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POULTRY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; ERYSIPELOTHRIX INFECTION; FEMALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MITE; MITE INFESTATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CHICKENS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; ERYSIPELOTHRIX INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; POULTRY DISEASES;

ACARI; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMANYSSIDAE; DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 77950691320     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9317-4     Document Type: Article

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