No evidence that migratory geese disperse avian influenza viruses from breeding to wintering ground

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Yin, Shenglai ^a   Kleijn, David ^a   Müskens, Gerard J D M ^a   Fouchier, Ron A M ^b   Verhagen, Josanne H ^c   Glazov, Petr M ^d   Si, Yali ^a,e   Prins, Herbert H T ^a   De Boer, Willem Frederik ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANSER ALBIFRONS; ANSER FABALIS; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; BREEDING; GOOSE; LOW PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; MIGRANT BIRD; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; PREVALENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAIGA; TUNDRA; WETLAND; WINTER; ANIMAL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; GEESE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; SEASONS;

EID: 85019397451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177790     Document Type: Article

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