Pathogenic microorganisms carried by migratory birds passing through the territory of the island of Ustica, Sicily (Italy)

Avian Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-409

  Foti, Maria ^a   Rinaldo, Donatella ^a   Guercio, Annalisa ^b   Giacopello, Cristina ^a   Aleo, Aurora ^c   De Leo, Filomena ^a   Fisichella, Vittorio ^a   Mammina, Caterina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale 'A Mirri'   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DEUTEROMYCETES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; FECES; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MIGRATION; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL; YEAST;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FECES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; SICILY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; YEASTS;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; HYPHOMYCETES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SALMONELLA BONGORI; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 79961164922     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2011.588940     Document Type: Article

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