Wild Bird Migration across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: A Transmission Route for Highly Pathogenic H5N1

BACKGROUND: Qinghai Lake in central China has been at the center of debate on whether wild birds play a role in circulation of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1. In 2005, an unprecedented epizootic at Qinghai Lake killed more than 6000 migratory birds including over 3000 bar-headed geese...

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Main Authors: Prosser, Diann J., Cui, Peng, Takekawa, John Y., Tang, Mingjie, Hou, Yuansheng, Collins, Bridget M., Yan, Baoping, Hill, Nichola J., Li, Tianxian, Li, Yongdong, Lei, Fumin, Guo, Shan, Xing, Zhi, He, Yubang, Zhou, Yuanchun, Douglas, David C., Perry, William M., Newman, Scott H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052365/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21408010
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017622
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