Validated H5 Eurasian real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and its application in H5N1 outbreaks in 2005-2006

Avian Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 373-377

  Slomka, M J ^a   Pavlidis, T ^a   Banks, J ^a   Shell, W ^a   McNally, A ^a   Essen, S ^a   Brown, I H ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; H5

Indexed keywords

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 34247610005     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/7664-060906r1.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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