Qinghai-like H5N1 from domestic cats, northern Iraq

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1295-1297

  Yingst, Samuel L ^a,b   Saad, Magdi D ^a   Felt, Stephen A ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; GOOSE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; IRAQ; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTALITY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; POULTRY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHICKENS; GEESE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; IRAQ; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; POULTRY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33750576112     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.060264     Document Type: Letter

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