Swine influenza in Sri Lanka

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 481-484

  Perera, Harsha K K ^a,b   Wickramasinghe, Geethani ^c   Cheung, Chung L ^a   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a,d   Smith, David K ^a   Poon, Leo L M ^a   Perera, Aluthgama K C ^e   Ma, Siu K ^a   Sunil Chandra, Narapiti P ^b   Guan, Yi ^a   Peiris, Joseph S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c Medical Research Institute Colombo   (Sri Lanka)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e Colombo Municipal Council ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIDASE; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H3N2); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SRI LANKA; SWINE; SWINE INFLUENZA;

EID: 84874225676     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1903.120945     Document Type: Article

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