The effect of swab sample choice on the detection of avian influenza in apparently healthy wild ducks

Avian Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 114-119

  Ip, Hon S ^a   Dusek, Robert J ^a   Heisey, Dennis M ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

avian influenza; sampling methods; surveillance; wild birds

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CLASSIFICATION; CLOACA; DUCK; EVALUATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; OROPHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLOACA; COLORADO; DUCKS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NORTH DAKOTA; OROPHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIROLOGY;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84859358845     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/9832-061311-Reg.1     Document Type: Review

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