Prevalence in bulk tank milk and epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni in dairy herds in Northern Italy

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1832-1837

  Bianchini, Valentina ^a   Borella, Laura ^a   Benedetti, Valentina ^a   Parisi, Antonio ^b   Miccolupo, Angela ^b   Santoro, Eliana ^a   Recordati, Camilla ^c   Luini, Mario ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c Mouse and Animal Pathology Lab   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPP; CAMPYLOBACTERS; CLONAL COMPLEX; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MILK CONTAMINATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORTHERN ITALY;

BACTERIA; MAMMALS;

DAIRIES;

BACTERIUM; BIRD; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENOTYPE; INFECTIVITY; MILK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ITALY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; COLUMBIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; GENOTYPE; ITALY; MILK; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84897630427     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03784-13     Document Type: Article

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