Do crocodilians get the flu? Looking for influenza A in captive crocodilians

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 309, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 571-580

  Davis, Lisa Marie ^a   Spackman, Erica ^b  

^a APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRDS; FEMALE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MALE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR SINENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CAIMAN LATIROSTRIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; FELIS CATUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A; MAMMALIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PALEOSUCHUS TRIGONATUS;

EID: 57749208656     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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