Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) virus from Waterfowl, South Korea, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1587-1588

  Ku, Keun Bon ^a   Park, Eun Hye ^a   Yum, Jung ^a   Kim, Ji An ^a   Oh, Seung Kyoo ^a   Seo, Sang Heui ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GENE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N8; LETTER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN GENE; VIRUS SIALIDASE GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; WATERFOWL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HISTORY; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84906255338     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2009.140390     Document Type: Letter

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