Spread of influenza virus a (H5N1) clade 2.3.2.1 to Bulgaria in common buzzards

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1596-1602

  Marinova Petkova, Atanaska ^a,b   Georgiev, Georgi ^b   Seiler, Patrick ^c   Darnell, Daniel ^c   Franks, John ^c   Krauss, Scott ^c   Webby, Richard J ^c   Webster, Robert G ^c  

^a Regional Diagnostic Laboratory on Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease in Birds   (Bulgaria)

^b National Diagnostic and Research Veterinary Medical Institute   (Bulgaria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; MATRIX PROTEIN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BULGARIA; BUTEO BUTEO; CARCASS; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FALCONIFORMES; FERRET; GENE MUTATION; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LD 50; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BULGARIA; CHICKENS; FALCONIFORMES; FERRETS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POULTRY DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84866545444     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1810.120357     Document Type: Article

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