Detection of Streptococcus suis in bioaerosols of swine confinement buildings

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3296-3304

  Bonifait, Laetitia ^a,b,c   Veillette, Marc ^a   Létourneau, Valérie ^a,b,c   Grenier, Daniel ^b,c   Duchainea, Caroline ^a,b,c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY;

AEROSOLIZATION; ASIAN COUNTRIES; BIOAEROSOLS; HUMAN INFECTION; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; SEROTYPES; ZOONOTIC AGENTS;

BACTERIA;

AEROSOL;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTERIAL LOAD; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PIG; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE;

EID: 84899874252     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04167-13     Document Type: Article

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