Avian influenza viruses and their implication for human health

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-112

  Kaye, Donald ^a,b,d   Pringle, Craig R ^b,c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b International Society for Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA H5N1 VIRUS; INFLUENZA H7 VIRUS; INFLUENZA H7N7 VIRUS; INFLUENZA H9N2 VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HYBRID; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; REASSORTANT VIRUSES;

EID: 11144247218     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427236     Document Type: Review

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