Comparative micro-epidemiology of pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreaks in a wild bird population

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1775, 2019, Pages

  Hill, Sarah C ^a   Hansen, Rowena ^b   Watson, Samantha ^a   Coward, Vivien ^b   Russell, Christine ^b   Cooper, Jayne ^b   Essen, Steve ^b   Everest, Holly ^b   Parag, Kris V ^a   Fiddaman, Steven ^a   Reid, Scott ^b   Lewis, Nicola ^b,c   Brookes, Sharon M ^b   Smith, Adrian L ^a   Sheldon, Ben ^a   Perrins, Christopher M ^a   Brown, Ian H ^b   Pybus, Oliver G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian influenza virus; Epidemiology; Genetics; H5NX; Serology; Wild birds

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; PEST OUTBREAK; VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N1); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY; WATERFOWL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANSERIFORMES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PHYLOGENY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85065422194     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0259     Document Type: Article

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