Four-year evaluation of the effect of vaccination against Coxiella burnetii on reduction of animal infection and environmental contamination in a naturally infected dairy sheep flock

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7405-7407

  Astobiza, Ianire ^a   Barandika, Jesús F ^a   Ruiz Fons, Francisco ^a   Hurtado, Ana ^a   Povedano, Inés ^a   Juste, Ramón A ^a   García Pérez, Ana L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; PHASE I;

AGRICULTURE;

WOOL;

BACTERIAL VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; SHEEP; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; COXIELLA BURNETII; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL VACCINES; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VACCINES, INACTIVATED;

EID: 82955193872     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05530-11     Document Type: Article

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