A 4-year study of avian influenza virus prevalence and subtype diversity in ducks of Newfoundland, Canada

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 701-708

  Huang, Yanyan ^a   Wille, Michelle ^a,e   Dobbin, Ashley ^a   Robertson, Gregory J ^b   Ryan, Pierre ^b   Ojkic, Davor ^c   Whitney, Hugh ^d   Lang, Andrew S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d Newfoundland Department of Natural Resources   (Canada)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Phylogenetic analysis; Virus diversity; Virus ecology

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOME; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRUS; WATERFOWL;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; DUCK; FEMALE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DUCKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84885152156     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2013-0507     Document Type: Article

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