Demographic and spatiotemporal patterns of avian influenza infection at the continental scale, and in relation to annual life cycle of a migratory host

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Nallar, Rodolfo ^a,b   Papp, Zsuzsanna ^c   Epp, Tasha ^a   Leighton, Frederick A ^a   Swafford, Seth R ^d   DeLiberto, Thomas J ^e   Dusek, Robert J ^f   Ip, Hon S ^f   Hall, Jeffrey ^f   Berhane, Yohannes ^g   Gibbs, Samantha E J ^h   Soos, Catherine ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Bolivia)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d Mississippi Wetlands Mgmt District   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^g CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^h U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAS DISCORS; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BREEDING; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LATITUDE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WATERFOWL; WINTER; ANIMAL; BIRD; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N1); INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANAS DISCORS; ANATIDAE; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84938307686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130662     Document Type: Article

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