Investigation of influenza in migrating birds, the primordial reservoir and transmitters of influenza in Brazil

Birds are the most important reservoirs of the influenza virus. Its maintenance in its natural hosts, including man, allows the influenza virus to reassorts its strains. The recent report of an avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in humans, was in a child with fatal respiratory illness in China, 1997. Th...

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Main Author: Kawamoto,Adélia Hiroko Nagamori (author)
Other Authors: Mancini,Dalva Assunção Portari (author), Pereira,Luiz Eloy (author), Cianciarullo,Aurora Marques (author), Cruz,Aurea Silveira (author), Dias,Andrea Luppi Fernandes (author), Mendonça,Rita Maria Zucatelli (author), Pinto,José Ricardo (author), Durigon,Edison Luiz (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2005
Subjects:
migrating birds
Brazilian avian influenza virus
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822005000100017
Country:Brazil
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