Coxiella burnetii shedding and environmental contamination at lambing in two highly naturally-infected dairy sheep flocks after vaccination

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Astobiza, I ^a   Barandika, J F ^a   Ruiz Fons, F ^a   Hurtado, A ^a   Povedano, I ^a   Juste, R A ^a   Garcia Perez A L ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Coxiella burnetii; Ovine; Q fever; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; Q FEVER VACCINE;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRYING; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; HERD; INFECTION RATE; LAMB; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; VACCINATION; VAGINA SECRETION; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL VACCINES; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRYING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; PARTURITION; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80052854461     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: 15322661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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