The onset of virus shedding and clinical signs in chickens infected with high-pathogenicity and low-pathogenicity avian influenza viruses

Avian Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 555-577

  Spickler, Anna R ^a   Trampel, Darrell W ^a   Roth, James A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CHICKEN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 56749104263     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450802499118     Document Type: Review

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