Use of herd information for predicting Salmonella status in pig herds

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 49-59

  Baptista, F M ^a,b   Alban, L ^c   Nielsen, L R ^a   Domingos, I ^b   Pomba, C ^b   Almeida, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA   (Portugal)

^c Danish Agriculture and Food Council   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Factor analysis; Herd classification; Pig; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HERD; HYGIENE; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SANITATION;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FECES; LOGISTIC MODELS; PORTUGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SALMONELLA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78649623976     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2010.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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