Test-Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Pandit, Pranav S ^a,b   Bunn, David A ^b,c   Pande, Satish A ^a   Aly, Sharif S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ELA Foundation   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; INDIA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; PATHOGENICITY; POULTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INDIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POULTRY; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84984932415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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