Colonisation of a phage susceptible Campylobacter jejuni population in two phage positive broiler flocks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kittler, Sophie ^a   Fischer, Samuel ^a   Abdulmawjood, Amir ^a   Glünder, Gerhard ^a   Klein, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BROILER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGY; BIRD DISEASE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTROL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POULTRY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84899659407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094782     Document Type: Article

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