The role of backyard poultry flocks in the epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H7N7) in the Netherlands in 2003

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-254

  Bavinck, V ^a   Bouma, A ^a   van Boven, M ^b   Bos, M E H ^a   Stassen, E ^b   Stegeman, J A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Backyard poultry; Reproduction number; SEIR model; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N7; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PATHOGENICITY; POULTRY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N7 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POULTRY; RISK FACTORS;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 58649119590     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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