Bulk tank milk surveillance as a measure to detect Coxiella burnetii shedding dairy goat herds in the Netherlands between 2009 and 2014

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3814-3825

  Van den Brom, R ^a   Santman Berends, I ^a   Luttikholt, S ^a   Moll, L ^a   Van Engelen, E ^a   Vellema, P ^a  

^a GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bulk tank milk; Coxiella burnetii; Dairy goat; Polymerase chain reaction; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS ARIES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIETARY FIBER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION; VETERINARY;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HUMANS; MILK; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84929503060     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2014-9029     Document Type: Article

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