Quantifying Transmission of Highly Pathogenic and Low Pathogenicity H7N1 Avian Influenza in Turkeys

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Saenz, Roberto A ^a   Essen, Steve C ^b   Brookes, Sharon M ^b   Iqbal, Munir ^c   Wood, James L N ^d   Grenfell, Bryan T ^e   McCauley, John W ^f   Brown, Ian H ^b   Gog, Julia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A (H7N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N1; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TURKEYS;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS;

EID: 84866507573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045059     Document Type: Article

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