Multiple introduction of Asian H5N1 avian influenza virus in Croatia by wild birds during 2005-2006 and isolation of the virus from apparently healthy black-headed gulls (Larus ridibundus)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 915-920

  Savić, Vladimir ^a   Labrović, Ankica ^b   Zelenika, Tajana Amšel ^a   Balenović, Mirta ^a   Šeparović, Sanja ^b   Jurinović, Luka ^a  

^a CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Rural Development   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Birds; Epidemiology; Influenza

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIRD; CLADISTICS; CROATIA; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC STRAIN; HACROBIA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MARSH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEN (SWAN); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CROATIA; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PHYLOGENY;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CYGNUS OLOR; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS;

EID: 77956265660     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0107     Document Type: Article

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