Avian influenza a virus in wild birds in highly urbanized areas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Verhagen, Josanne H ^a   Munster, Vincent J ^b   Majoor, Frank ^c   Lexmond, Pascal ^a   Vuong, Oanh ^a   Stumpel, Job B G ^a,d   Rimmelzwaan, Guus F ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   Schutten, Martin ^a   Slaterus, Roy ^c   Fouchier, Ron A M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NETHERLANDS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; URBAN RENEWAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84862978431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038256     Document Type: Article

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