Avian influenza a virus (H7N7) epidemic in the Netherlands in 2003: Course of the epidemic and effectiveness of control measures

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2088-2095

  Stegeman, Arjan ^a,d   Bouma, Annemarie ^a   Elbers, Armin R W ^b   De Jong, Mart C M ^b   Nodelijk, Gonnie ^b   De Klerk, Fred ^c   Koch, Guus ^b   Van Boven, Michiel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Agriculture Nature and Food quality Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^d NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOWL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; ORNITHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 10444255611     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425583     Document Type: Article

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