Avian influenza prevalence in pigs, Egypt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 726-727

  El Sayed, Amr ^a   Awad, Walid ^a   Fayed, Adel ^a   Hamann, Hans Peter ^b   Zschöck, Michael ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Hessian State Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN DETECTION; AVIAN INFLUENZA; EGYPT; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N2; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TYPING;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 77950641766     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.091316     Document Type: Letter

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