The monitoring of selected zoonotic diseases of wildlife in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy

Game meat hygiene in focus: Microbiology, epidemiology, risk analysis and quality assurance

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 223-244

  Magnino, Simone ^a   Frasnelli, Matteo ^b   Fabbi, Massimo ^c   Bianchi, Alessandro ^d   Zanoni, Maria Grazia ^e   Merialdi, Giuseppe ^f   Pacciarini, Maria Ludovica ^g   Gaffuri, Alessandra ^h  

^a Sezione Diagnostica di Pavia   (Italy)

^b Sezione di Ravenna   (Italy)

^c Natl Ref Lab Animal Chlamydioses   (Italy)

^d Ospedale di Sondrio   (Italy)

^e Spedali Civili of Brescia   (Italy)

^f INFN Sezione di Bologna   (Italy)

^g National Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis by Mycobacterium bovis   (Italy)

^h Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.3920/9789086867233_018     Document Type: Chapter

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