Avian influenza surveillance in wild migratory, resident, domestic birds and in poultry in Maharashtra and Manipur, India, during avian migratory season 2006-07

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 550-554

  Pawar, Shailesh ^a   Pande, Satish ^b   Jamgaonkar, Aniruddha ^a   Koratkar, Santosh ^a   Pal, Bishwajoy ^a   Raut, Satish ^a   Nanaware, Madhuri ^a   Ray, Koninika ^a   Chakrabarti, Alok ^a   Kode, Sadhana ^a   Thite, Vishal ^a   Khude, Madhukar ^a   Randive, Satish ^a   Basu, Atanu ^a   Pawashe, Amit ^b   Ponkshe, Aditya ^b   Pandit, Pranav ^b   Deshpande, Pramod ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b ELA Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Avian influenza surveillance; Faecal samples; Migratory birds

Indexed keywords

ANAS; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 71849107946     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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