Detecting avian influenza virus (H5N1) in domestic duck feathers

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1671-1672

  Yamamoto, Yu ^a   Nakamura, Kikuyasu ^a   Okamatsu, Masatoshi ^a   Miyazaki, Ayako ^a   Yamada, Manabu ^a   Mase, Masaji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; DOMESTIC FOWL; DUCK; EPIDERMIS CELL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEATHER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 54249160000     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1410.080415     Document Type: Letter

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