Article
The role of SPI-1 and SPI-2 type three secretion systems in persistent Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum infections of chicken
2007-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum causes a septicaemic, persistent, systemic disease of poultry known as Pullorum Disease (PD). PD causes high mortality in young birds with those that survive becoming carriers of the disease. Transmission between birds in the same generation is predominantly faecal-oral, with birds in subsequent generations becoming infected via vertical transmission. Groups of viralence genes...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1abe6c7f-f18a-5d4a-9a59-a131e0cfa104
- DOI
- 10.5525/gla.thesis.71162
