Does influenza A affect body condition of wild mallard ducks, or vice versa? A reply to Flint and Franson

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2347-2349

  Latorre Margalef, Neus ^a   Gunnarsson, Gunnar ^a,b   Munster, Vincent J ^c   Fouchier, Ron A M ^c   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^c   Elmberg, Johan ^b   Olsen, Björn ^a,d   Wallensten, Anders ^a   Fransson, Thord ^e   Brudin, Lars ^a,f   Waldenström, Jonas ^a,g  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; DUCK; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 66749164258     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0275     Document Type: Note

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