1. Avian influenza H5N1 in viverrids: implications for wildlife health and conservation.
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S.I. Roberton, D.J. Bell, G.J.D. Smith, J.M. Nicholls, K.H. Chan, D.T. Nguyen, P.Q. Tran, U. Streicher, L.L.M. Poon, H. Chen, P. Horby, M. Guardo, Y. Guan, and J.S.M. Peiris
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AVIAN influenza , *RESPIRATORY infections , *VIRUS diseases , *SPECIES diversity - Abstract
The Asian countries chronically infected with avian influenza A H5N1 are ‘global hotspots’ for biodiversity conservation in terms of species diversity, endemism and levels of threat. Since 2003, avian influenza A H5N1 viruses have naturally infected and killed a range of wild bird species, four felid species and a mustelid. Here, we report fatal disseminated H5N1 infection in a globally threatened viverrid, the Owston's civet, in Vietnam, highlighting the risk that avian influenza H5N1 poses to mammalian and avian biodiversity across its expanding geographic range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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