Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Indigenous chickens"

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    • Indigenous Ducks are Better Reservoirs of P. multocida than Indigenous Chickens 

      Mbuthia, P G; Njagi, L W; Nyaga, P N; Bebora, L C; Minga, U M; Mugera, G M; Olsen (Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 2005)
      Two experiments were performed to study cross infections from chickens to ducks and vice versa. For each experiment the source birds (chickens or ducks) were infected with Pasteurella multocida strain 10322T. The infected ...

    • Sensitivity of Listeria species, recovered from indigenous chickens to antibiotics and disinfectants 

      Njagi, L W; Mbuthia, P G; Bebora, L C; Nyaga, P N; Minga, U; Olsen, J E (Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 2004-10)
      BACKGROUND: Resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and disinfectants has been reported widely in the world. Listeria monocytogenes is no exception, although normally it tends to be variably sensitive to many antibiotics ...