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HANDLING AND TRANSPORT STRESS INTERACTIONS WITH PATHOGEN BIOLOGY IN LIVESTOCK

Objective

Objectives: Identify physiological, immunological, and endocrinological alterations that occur in livestock when subjected to common managerial stressors; determine how to model the stress to which livestock are exposed during normal managerial practices, in a laboratory situation; understand how handling and transportation stress influence livestock pathogens that have the potential to detrimentally affect human health.

Investigators
Lay Jr D C
Institution
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Start date
2002
End date
2005
Funding Source
Agricultural Research Service
Project number
3602-32000-005-00D
Accession number
405360
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