Wind-mediated spread of low-pathogenic avian influenza virus into the environment during outabreaks at commercial poultry farms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Jonges, Marcel ^a,b   Van Leuken, Jeroen ^a,c   Wouters, Inge ^c   Koch, Guus ^d   Meijer, Adam ^a   Koopmans, Marion ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTOXIN DETECTION; EPIDEMIC; NONHUMAN; POULTRY FARMING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WIND; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CHICKEN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGENICITY; PIG; POULTRY; TRANSMISSION; TURKEY (BIRD); VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POULTRY; SWINE; TURKEYS; WIND;

EID: 84929192230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125401     Document Type: Article

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