Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in ducks and in-contact chickens in backyard and smallholder commercial duck farms in Viet Nam

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 229-240

  Henning, Joerg ^a   Henning, Kate A ^a   Morton, John M ^a   Long, Ngo T ^b   Ha, Nguyen T ^b   Vu, Le T ^b   Vu, Pham P ^b   Hoa, Dong M ^b   Meers, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Regional Animal Health Centre VI   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Duck; Poultry; Prevalence; Viet Nam

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DUCK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIET NAM; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENS; DUCKS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIETNAM;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79960395556     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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