Highly (H5N1) and low (H7N2) pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in falcons via nasochoanal route and ingestion of experimentally infected prey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bertran, Kateri ^a   Busquets, Núria ^a   Abad, Francesc Xavier ^a   de la Fuente, García Jorge ^b   Solanes, David ^a   Cordón, Iván ^a   Costa, Taiana ^a   Dolz, Roser ^a   Majó, Natàlia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Roc Falcon SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FALCONIFORMES; HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYBRID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N2; LOW PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD; GENETICS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; FALCO CHERRUG; FALCO RUSTICOLUS; FALCONIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RAPTORES;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALCONIFORMES; FOOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NASOPHARYNX; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84857925462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032107     Document Type: Article

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