Monitoring chicken flock behaviour provides early warning of infection by human pathogen Campylobacter
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Monitoring chicken flock behaviour provides early warning of infection by human pathogen Campylobacter
Campylobacter is the commonest bacterial cause of gastrointestinal infection in humans, and chicken meat is the major source of infection throughout the world. Strict and expensive on-farm biosecurity measures have been largely unsuccessful in controlling infection and are hampered by the time needed to analyse faecal samples, with the result that Campylobacter status is often known only after ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2323