Aerial dissemination of Clostridium difficile on a pig farm and its environment

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1027-1032

  Keessen, E C ^a   Donswijk, C J ^a   Hol, S P ^a   Hermanus, C ^b   Kuijper, E J ^b   Lipman, L J A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity; Aerial dissemination; Clostridium difficile; Pig farm

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PIG;

AGING; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PIGLET; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUIDAE;

EID: 80755172272     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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