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Genotype analyses of Campylobacter isolated from the gastrointestinal tracts and the reproductive tracts of broiler breeder roosters.
Avian diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Hiett Kelli L, Siragusa Gregory R, Cox Nelson A, Buhr R Jeff, Musgrove Michael T, Stern Norman J, Wilson Jeanna L
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Campylobacter is considered to be the leading bacterial etiologic agent of acute gastroenteritis in humans. Evidence implicates poultry as a major source of the organism for human illness; however, the pathways involved in Campylobacter contamination of poultry flocks, horizontal transmission and/or vertical transmission, remain unclear. Recent evidence implicates breeders as a potential source for Campylobacter...
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