Descriptive epidemiology of equine influenza in India (2008-2009): Temporal and spatial trends;Epidemiologia descrittiva dell'influenza equina in India (2008-2009)

Veterinaria Italiana

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 449-458

  Virmani, Nitin ^a   Bera, Bidhan C ^a   Gulati, Baldev R ^a   Karuppusamy, Shanmugasundaram ^a   Singh, Birendra K ^a   Vaid, Rajesh Kumar ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Kumar, Rajendra ^a   Malik, Parveen ^a   Khurana, Sandeep K ^a   Singh, Jitender ^a   Manuja, Anju ^a   Dedar, Ramesh ^a   Gupta, Ashok K ^a   Yadav, Suresh C ^a   Chugh, Parmod K ^b   Narwal, Partap S ^c   Thankur, Vinod L N ^d   Kaul, Rakesh ^d   Kanani, Amit ^e   Rautmare, Sunil S ^f   Singh, Raj K ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON EQUINES   (India)

^b Central Military Veterinary Laboratory   (India)

^c Brig RVS HQ Eastern Command   (India)

^d Department of Animal Husbandry ^*  (India)

^e Department of Animal Husbandry   (India)

^f Western Regional Disease Investigation Laboratory   (India)

Author keywords

Donkey; Equine influenza; H3N8; Haemagglutination inhibition; Horse; India; Influenza; Mule; Outbreak; Virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; INDIA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N8; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INDIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N8 SUBTYPE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EQUIDAE; EQUINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; EQUUS ASINUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 78649766272     PISSN: 0505401X     EISSN: 18281427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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