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Towards the selection of chickens resistant to Salmonella and Campylobacter infections.
Bulletin et memoires de l'Academie royale de medecine de Belgique - 1 Jan 2009
Kaiser P, Howell M M J, Fife M, Sadeyen J-R, Salmon N, Rothwell L, Young J, Poh T-Y, Stevens M, Smith J, Burt D, Swaggerty C, Kogut M
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Resistance to infection with enteric pathogens such as Salmonella and Campylobacter can be at many levels and include both non-immune and immune mechanisms. Immune resistance mechanisms can be specific, at the level of the adaptive immune response, or non-specific, at the level of the innate immune response. Whilst we can extrapolate to some degree in birds from what is known about immune responses to these...
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