Modelling the wind-borne spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus between farms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ssematimba, Amos ^a   Hagenaars, Thomas J ^a   de Jong, Mart C M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NETHERLANDS; PATHOGEN DECAY; PLUME DISPERSION; POULTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WIND; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUST; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POULTRY; WIND;

EID: 84856916274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031114     Document Type: Article

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