Agro-ecological features of the introduction and spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in northern Nigeria

Geospatial Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-16

  Cecchi, Giuliano ^a   Ilemobade, Albert ^a,b   Le Brun, Yvon ^a   Hogerwerf, Lenny ^a,c   Slingenbergh, Jan ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^b Upline Resources Foundation   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ducks; H5N1 subtype; Influenza a virus; Nigeria; Poultry; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DUCK; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NIGERIA; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POULTRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; VIROLOGY; WETLAND; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CHICKENS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUCKS; ECOLOGY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NIGERIA; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; RAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; WETLANDS;

EID: 58849143045     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2008.227     Document Type: Article

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