Salmonella awareness and related management practices in U.S. urban backyard chicken flocks

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 481-488

  Beam, A ^a   Garber, L ^a   Sakugawa, J ^a   Kopral, C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Chickens; Denver; Los Angeles; Miami; National Animal Health Monitoring System; Poultry; Salmonella; Survey; Urban; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALMONELLA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COLORADO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FLORIDA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; POULTRY DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

ANAS; ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84877689298     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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