Avian influenza outbreaks in chickens, Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1909-1912

  Biswas, Paritosh K ^a   Christensen, Jens P ^b   Ahmed, Syed S U ^a   Barua, Himel ^a   Das, Ashutosh ^a   Rahman, Mohammed H ^a   Giasuddin, Mohammad ^c   Hannan, Abu S M A ^d   Habib, Mohammad A ^d   Ahad, Abdul ^a   Rahman, Abu S M S ^d   Faruque, Rayhan ^a   Debnath, Nitish C ^a  

^a Chittagong Government Veterinary College   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BANGLADESH LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bangladesh)

^d Department of Livestock Services ^*  (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BANGLADESH; BIRD; CHICKEN; EGG; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H9N2; MARKET; NONHUMAN; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CHICKENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H9N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 57049100940     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.071567     Document Type: Article

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