Influenza: Time to come to grips with the avian dimension

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 261-262

  Melville, D S ^a   Shortridge, K F ^b,c  

^a University of Hong Kong ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVIAN INFLUENZA H5N1 VIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CHINA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FOWL; GENOTYPE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH KOREA; SPRING; VIET NAM; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 2342419375     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(04)00998-3     Document Type: Letter

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