A brief history of bird flu

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1775, 2019, Pages

  Lycett, Samantha J ^a   Duchatel, Florian ^a   Digard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian influenza virus; Epidemiology; Pandemic; Phylogenetics; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; PATHOGEN; VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS;

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85065448847     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0257     Document Type: Review

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