Dangerous for ferrets: Lethal for humans?

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Doherty, Peter C ^a,b   Thomas, Paul G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSTELA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FERRET; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MORTALITY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE GENETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOTERRORISM; FERRETS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE GENETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84857125494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-10     Document Type: Note

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