Intracontinental and intercontinental dissemination of Asian H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (clade 2.3.4.4) in the winter of 2014-2015

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 388-405

  Saito, Takehiko ^a,b   Tanikawa, Taichiro ^a   Uchida, Yuko ^a   Takemae, Nobuhiro ^a   Kanehira, Katsushi ^a   Tsunekuni, Ryota ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CHINA; CLADISTICS; EUROPE; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N2); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N8); JAPAN; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POULTRY; REVIEW; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WINTER; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

HEMAGGLUTININ, AVIAN INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; GENOTYPE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POULTRY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES;

EID: 84947439633     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: 10991654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1857     Document Type: Review

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