The highly pathogenic avian influenza a (H7N7) virus epidemic in the Netherlands in 2003 - Lessons learned from the first five outbreaks

Avian Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 691-705

  Elbers, A R W ^a,b   Fabri, T H F ^b   De Vries, T S ^b   De Wit, J J ^b   Pijpers, A ^b   Koch, G ^a  

^a Ctrl Inst Anim Dis Contr L   (Netherlands)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical signs; H7N7; Highly pathogenic avian influenza; Pathology; Poultry

Indexed keywords

AVES; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTORY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N7; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; POULTRY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N7 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NETHERLANDS; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 9644310637     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/7149     Document Type: Article

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