Dissemination of Salmonella enteritidis by experimentally-infected pigeons

Two groups of domestic pigeons (Columba livia) were experimentally infected orally with doses of 9.5 x10(7) and 9.5 x10(9) CFU/mL (group A and B, respectively) of a Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) strain isolated from chickens. None of the used doses caused mortality of the inoculated birds; however, th...

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Main Authors: ÁH Albuquerque, WM Cardoso, RSC Teixeira, ES Lopes, RJPF Sales, RV Horn, RC Rocha-e-Silva, WGA Bezerra, VJR Gomes-Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas 2013-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2013000300007&lng=en&tlng=en