Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in feral Raccoons, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 714-717

  Horimoto, Taisuke ^a   Maeda, Ken ^b   Murakami, Shin ^a   Kiso, Maki ^a   Iwatsuki Horimoto, Kiyoko ^a   Sashika, Mariko ^c   Ito, Toshihiro ^d   Suzuki, Kazuo ^e   Yokoyama, Mayumi ^f   Kawaoka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Hikiiwa Park Center   (Japan)

^f Wildlife Management Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACCOON; SEROLOGY; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; JAPAN; MALE; NEURAMINIDASE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RACCOONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 79953688225     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1704.101604     Document Type: Article

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