Mallard ducks - a waterfowl species with high risk of distributing Escherichia coli pathogenic for humans

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 510-517

  Ewers, Christa ^a   Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Schierack, Peter ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Lausitz   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649712568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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