Detection of Coxiella burnetii DNA in inhalable airborne dust samples from goat farms after mandatory culling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5410-5412

  Hogerwerf, Lenny ^a   Borlée, Floor ^b   Still, Kelly ^b   Heederik, Dick ^b   van Rotterdam, Bart ^c   de Bruin, Arnout ^c   Nielen, Mirjam ^a   Wouters, Inge M ^b  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUST; GENETICS; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; PARTICLE SIZE; Q FEVER;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NETHERLANDS; PARTICLE SIZE; Q FEVER;

CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 84866182145     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00677-12     Document Type: Note

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