Infectious offspring: How birds acquire and transmit an avia polyomavirus in the wild

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Potti, Jaime ^a   Blanco, Guillermo ^b   Lemus, Jesús Á ^c   Canal, David ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN POLYOMA VIRUS; BLOWFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; FLY; LARVA; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; POLYOMA VIRUS; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; VIROLOGY;

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; DNA VIRUSES; PASSERI; POLYOMAVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

EID: 44249083471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001276     Document Type: Article

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