Avian influenza, migratory birds and emerging zoonoses: Unusual viral RNA, enteropathogens and Cryptosporidium in poultry litter

Bioscience Hypotheses

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 363-369

  Rao, Juluri R ^a,b   Cherie Millar, B ^c   Moore, John E ^b,c  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; Cryptosporidium; Cygnus olor; E. coli O157; Northern Ireland; Salmonella; Swan; Unusual ss ds RNA

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA VACCINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; OSELTAMIVIR; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD DISEASE; COMPOST; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRELAND; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PANDEMIC; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POULTRY FARMING; RNA ANALYSIS; ROTAVIRUS; STRAW; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAMPYLOBACTER; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYGNUS OLOR; GIARDIA; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 70350060158     PISSN: 17562392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bihy.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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